🔙💪 𝐍𝐔𝐍𝐎 𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊! - ROAD TO RECOVERY 🔴🔵

I feel great. I'm home, the fans are chanting my name and I think that's a privilege for me. This injury accounts for almost 20 to 30% of all football injuries. It's the most characteristic injury, you could say, of the professional footballer. Yes, great! Yes, that's good. One ball and we're done. Okay. Now, David, before the players come out, let's have a quick medical check-up. He's fallen and we'd like to say again that all our thoughts are with Nuno Mendes, who's having an operation today. When the surgeon told me 4 months, I was a bit sad. But that's life. It's always a decision where you explain the clinical case to the player. We explain the risks of staying like this. And in this case, that was not being able to use his previous maximum speed. In other words, with injuries of this type, you can continue to run at 25 km/h. But in this case, he's running at 35. The operation went well, and the surgeon said it was top-notch. Not much pain. I didn't feel anything after the operation, because I did everything they told me to do and it went well. And here we are. Nuno, good luck. Our hearts go out to you. Take care of yourself and we can't wait for you to return. - Good luck, Nuno, we're thinking of you. - Take care and come back as soon as possible. We love you and get well soon. We wish him all the best and hope he comes back soon. We really need him. And you're great! We're counting on you. Nuno, we miss you, we miss you. But we're waiting for you, we're waiting for you and you're going to help us win at the end of the season. And that's great! He had already been away from the pitch for a long period for conservative treatment. And now, once again, he was given a period away from the rest of the group of players. And to help him cope, we decided to keep him away from the club for a while, at least for the first part of his rehabilitation. Yes, very important, because my family was there. It's easier for me to do things than come here all the time. But here too, we have all the conditions. But I went there because it's good for us... to be with family. Family always supports us. It's important for us. I feel better. Little by little, I'm working on my overall muscular strength. This stage is important, because now I don't feel strong at all and we need to work on that. After that, I can go on some easy runs and start doing other things. First of all, there's the healing phase, during which we're absolutely forbidden to touch the injured area. In other words, we work the player, of course, and the rest of the body, maintaining him so that he doesn't lose too much in terms of cardio, etc. And in terms of strength gains. There are a whole host of areas in which he absolutely must not lose out. But during this period, we don't touch the injured area at all. We let it heal. I'm with my family here, my mother, my brothers, my whole family. They're here, and that's good. - It gives me motivation too. - That's what it's all about. And I'm happy here in Paris too. I'm fine because my family always goes with me, but here, I'm at home. That's it. We have a WhatsApp group with the PSG doctors and physiotherapists to talk normally, periodically, about the work we're doing and a few other things that it's very important to keep up with. We'll finish with 20 and 20. There's nothing I can do to be there and it's complicated. But it's also great to see my teammates playing, winning games and scoring goals. I'm happy for them too, and I hope I'll be back to be part of this wonderful moment. Yes, it's difficult. It's complicated, 4 months, you're training on your own. You do a lot of things in the gym. But I think the club has done what's best for me. The moment I was off the crutches, I was so happy. But you have to keep going. I still had 3 more months. After the crutches in the gym, doing my job. It's always the same thing, it's complicated, it's a bit mentally tiring, but that's life. You have to keep going. I have to do what I have to do. It depends a little on the feeling. Then we help with healing. That's to say, the second step is to do some work, what we call eccentric work, a little more stretching, to start to apply a little pressure to the scar zone to guide it, to guide the healing. Here and there, you bring it back. Go for amplitude... 4, great. Without turning the pelvis. Very good. Very good. Feel the contraction here. Okay? Bring it in. That's it. Forward, forward. That's it. Great! Forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, forward. Yeah, that's it. Very nice. Go, go, go. Speed. Speed. Speed. Speed. Yes. Go, go, go... More. More. Speed. Speed. Speed. Yes! Forward. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. More. More. More. More. Yes! More, more, more... It was a good idea, but complicated because... After 2 months, I think, a month and a half, it's complicated to go back. The feeling, I don't know what's going to come out, but I think it went well and went smoothly. We had a lot of quiet weeks on the pitch and now I'm feeling good. The third phase is once we've obtained a small percentage of sufficient healing, from which point we'll start to call the player back onto the pitch, until we establish a healing assessment, which will be carried out next week at the surgeon's, where he'll be able to judge whether he's fit to resume some training, or even all training. Nuno, is the comeback just around the corner? - Yes, soon. - We're working on it. It feels good. They're all... I'm happy to be back. My teammates too. I think they're happy to see me and that's important for the team. Come on! There's one player who's back in the group, who's been training with you, who's resumed collective training. It's Nuno Mendes. Is he fit for tomorrow's match? And above all, what can he bring? How can he be of value to you? It's great news that Nuno can train with the group again. He's picking up the pace again and he's getting closer to a comeback, even if he's not yet at 100%. But it's very good news, He's a very good player, a top quality player in his position. I hope he can get back to enjoying himself after this injury and this always difficult phase. Yes, it's going to be a special day for me. After 10 months, it's going to be a good moment. Nuno Mendes' entrance was the most positive thing of the evening, regardless of the match. Because after many months, he was back on the pitch and smiling. It's always lonely when the going gets tough. And we're all very happy that Nuno's back and we hope he'll come back like before. I'm very happy. 10 months is a long time. I think, after the operation, it was good, it went well, it went smoothly. Now we've got to play, we've got to do everything we can to win every game. I'm feeling good, I'm back and the fans are chanting my name and I think that's a privilege for me.