One week after nine months since the cruciate ligament in her left knee was torn, Alexia Putellas took one of the last steps in her recovery process this Monday. Barça has shared the most anticipated images on its social networks, those of the Blaugrana captain starting to work with the group.
In the video you can see the warm reception of her companions between applause and hugs for an Alexia unable to hide her joy. “After a long time we have ‘Ale’ back”, Jonatan Giráldez is heard announcing before Marta Torrejón begins the most repeated chant in the stands of Johan Cruyff: “Només hi ha una reina, Alexia Putellas” (There is only a queen, Alexia Putellas”.
The midfielder began to play the ball at the beginning of February and from today she will partially exercise with the rest of the group. “I feel again what I have always felt. Now it is a matter of patience, of continuing to work. We are beginning a new stage, which is gradually entering the team”, the captain explained to the club after exercising for the first time with all her teammates, who are preparing for the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals that they will play on Wednesday ( 6:45 p.m.) at the Camp Nou against Roma.
Since it was operated on July 12, the soccer player’s recovery has been meeting all the expected deadlines and, if everything continues in this vein, we could see her again on the pitch next April, in time for the stretch most decisive of the season with the Champions League semifinals (22-23 and 29-30 April) and the final of the F League (ends on May 21).
Although the Catalan player is prudent: “The doctors, who are the ones who understand this, say that the whole process is going well. My feelings are very good. Now we are starting a new phase and I am looking forward to being available, but this is determined by the doctor and my knee. We’ll see how he reacts.”
They have been months of a lot of work, not only physical, but also emotional, as Mollet admits: “There are moments of everything. It is a very mental injury in which you have many ups and downs, there are things you don’t understand… But I I have always said that everything happens for a reason and I am sure that it is also like that”.
