Piccini returns to play for Valencia 599 days after his serious injury

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He broke his kneecap in August 2019, left on loan in 2020 and returned in January 2021 without being fully recovered

Cristian Piccini played again a official match with Valencia a year and a half after having seriously injured knee. The Italian side played 22 minutes in the match against Betis after substituting in the second part to Carlos Soler. See again at Italian full back with the Valencia jersey -with a strong knee protection right- was probably one of the best news who left the party of Benito Villamarin in Valencianism. Since the injury, they have passed 599 days without seeing the soccer player with the shirt of Valencia in an official match.

Piccini broke the kneecap in his right knee on Aug 28, 2019 during a training session in Paterna. That moment overwhelmed the black and white wardrobe. Italian right back had to be evacuated from the sports city by ambulanceas he was practically unable to move from the pain from the moment he suffered the injury.

From there it started a real torture for the footballer. After surgery months of a lot of rehabilitation work lay ahead and, of course, fitness. Spent the whole season 2019-20 blank (He had only played 75 minutes in the first two days still with Marcelino on the bench.

Last summer, with Javi Gracia on the bench and about a year after the injury, he played his first game – a friendly against Castellón – again wearing the Valencia shirt. It seemed the end of Calvary for the footballer: “They have been nights without sleep because of the pain, continuous disappointments, suffering and a lot of work, “he said then when he thought he saw the light at the end of the tunnel.There were many stations of the Via Crucis To go.

When it seemed likeand he was going to become one of the pillars of a very young team, the club found its destiny with a loan to Atalanta. Valencia needed reduce wage bill Y any discount was goodor. For the player it was not a bad start -although he would have preferred to stay- in the case of un Champions team back in his country from where he left in 2014.

But in Atalanta he did not play either. Only 59 minutes in a game in which he entered as a substitute and could not finish it. The truth is that this has been the great martyrdom of the Italian footballer since he was discharged from the hospital last summer. He alternated moments when he was well with the appearance of pain and muscular discomfort that prevented him from competing at the highest level.

Return to Valencia for the winter market

Atalanta concluded the soccer player’s loan in January, and Piccini returned to Valencia in the winter market. It was the first reinforcement of those that closed the club, although Javi Gracia warned that he was not coming to compete immediately: “Piccini is not here to compete in the short term”, he revealed at the end of January.

Almost three months later, with a lot of work solo in Paterna, in the gym and on the field, the Italian side returned to a call and traveled to Seville. It was probably not in the plans that I had to play already. But Thierry Correia’s injury precipitated events. At 8 minutes, Gracia had it warm up, but the coaching staff quickly realized that they were not there to last the whole game, that’s why he initially entered Yunus by the injured defender. Yes it was, already when there were 22 minutes to go when the coach made him enter the game. Piccini was very grateful after the meeting. Now it remains to be seen how he recovers after the demands of the competition and at what level he returns after more than a year and a half off the pitch.

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