UMTITI re -training more than a year later

Lille has received two great news in the last hours. Ligue 1 Club is back to work with two of its players, the 30 -Year -old Algerian Media Nabil Bentah and the center of France of 31 Samuel UmTiti. The first suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest in June 2024 and the second has not trained with his teammates since February 2024 after suffering from knee injuries. The former world champion with the France team in 2018, a title he achieved on his best days as a footballer when he was part of FC Barcelona who arrived in 2016 from the Olympque de Lyon in exchange for 25 million euros, faced in the NTH attempt at returning. Signed by Lille in August 2023 after giving some signs of return to a certain level in Lecce, Umtiti It was run in February 2024 from the left knee to remove a piece of cartilage that distracted him. Between December 2023 and in February 2024 intervention he barely played 2 games, one in the Conference League and another in the French Cup against a fourth division, the Paris career.

From that world triumphal in Russia where, forcing, he became the center of the champion team, his football career was not the same, or asomo. In the 70 official matches he played as a Titular Barça defense between 2016 and 2018, in his only alignment with his last course as Culé, 2021-22, a physical suffering passed that he had not just left. Only during his stay at LECCE, in the 2022-23 campaign, with 25 games on his legs, he seemed to be back, but in the first showcase, yes somehow in a reasonable activity he could not hold 2024 .

In the day of 2023, Lille selected for his Repetnsca for Ligue 1, where he appeared as an amazing -wonderful central to be a captain with only 22 years of a historic such as Lyon, where he played 170 games between 2011 and 2016.

Paulo FoensecaHis former coach in Lille, before his ephemeral passed through Milan, Umtiti said it was difficult for him to expect when he played again, though “he certainly could do it again”, with a comment that sounds a bit encouraging.

Umtiti He fought back to go to football and, with 31 years, will try again. So far, it has a medical release. Now his return to the courts, as soon as his tune is fixed, will be a matter of his current coach, Bruno Genesio. The most prolonged, those who are in the hand, are to give your return to your return and to properly change your return to the game. Until June he had time in Lille. That month ends with your contract.