The president of Barça, Joan Laporta, not only reviewed the sporting news of the Blaugrana club in an extensive interview for the EFE agency, he also revealed his more personal side and detailed how he has overcome the thrombus that was detected a few months ago. “I feel good, fully recovered,” explained the president.
“It was a scare that I had as a result of a very intense trip, a 16-hour flight in practically a day and a half and that somehow affected me. I had a thrombus – in a leg -, it was in a vein that was not of the main ones,” he indicated about the delicate health problem that has prevented him from taking planes for a time.
Laporta has acknowledged on other occasions that his management at the head of Barça has caused him other health complications such as anxiety or problems with weight that have led him to control his diet. However, the thrombus has been the most serious warning that he has suffered since he began his second stage at the head of the Barcelona entity in 2021.
Laporta did not accompany the first men’s soccer team on their trips due to medical prescription until he was discharged last November and was in the Vallecas box to watch the duel between Rayo and Barça (1-1). “I was able to get my situation back on track in two months, with a treatment based on heparin and ‘Eliquis’ – a medication to treat blood clots in the veins of the legs (deep vein thrombosis)”, he explained.
Now, the president is fully recovered and is making longer trips, like the one he made to Dubai or Antwerp for the match on the last day of the Champions League group stage. “I no longer have pain or bad sensations, what happens is that the doctors are, as is normal, cautious. I have behaved well, I have followed everything they told me. I have not taken planes due to the pressure and I have already recovered Fortunately, it has already happened. I feel very good with the energy and strength necessary to continue,” he concluded.
