Gabriel Jesus talks about the injury that ruled him out of the World Cup
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Gabriel Jesus said he “cried a lot” the day he found out that the injury would rule him out of the rest of Brazil’s campaign at the World Cup in Qatar.
“To be honest, I don’t know what happened, because I didn’t feel anything. I just heard something, but nothing changed. I continued playing without pain, nothing. I was comfortable,” he said. “Then I was substituted and on the bench I started to feel something. And after that it started to grow and I couldn’t bend my knee. And that was really scary, you know?”
According to the athlete, the idea was to go back to the quarterfinals: “as soon as my knee started to grow, I was thinking about the World Cup, of course. And then I said to myself: ‘Okay, I’ll probably miss two or three practices and then I’ll go back to the quarterfinals or semifinals'”.
“We did the tests and they [médicos] they said i was out. You think about everything. About missing the World Cup, missing the rest of the season, four years of work, and then this happens, you know?”
“I was sad. I cried a lot that day, but the very next day I started laughing and smiling because that was in the past, you know? ‘Now it’s time to think about surgery, and then think about getting fit and coming back stronger than that I was before”.
back to the lawns
Gabriel Jesus returned to the pitch in Arsenal’s victory over Fulham, on the last 12th, for the English Championship. He was out of action for more than four months due to a ligament injury in his right knee.
He was injured playing for the Brazilian national team in the World Cup in Qatar, against Cameroon, in the group stage. The striker was cut from the World Cup on December 3 and returned to England to undergo surgery.
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