Álvaro Benito remembers his ordeal with injuries and nine operations: “I’m going to have to get a prosthesis”
Alvaro Benitofootballer Real Madrid from 1995 to 2022, explained in al SER Chain he ordeal with injuries that he suffered during his football career and the consequences they have left him.
I always tell one of my friends to spend five minutes on my body… and they would say: “but how can you walk like that?”
He singer of the group Pignoisewho also succeeds as a television commentator, said in the program ‘The Stringer’ that “I have a knee that… I always tell one of my friends to sit on my body for five minutes… and they would say: “but, how can you walk like that?””
Álvaro Benito underwent nine operations on the same knee
Álvaro Benito, who He seriously injured his knee on November 12, 1996. playing with the Spanish Under 21, he explained that “the nine operations were on the same knee. The problem I had was that at that time, when you tore your meniscus, they would remove it if it was badly torn. They removed it for me and When I returned to play without having a meniscus, the bone began to rub against the bone and the cartilage became ventilated overnight.”
They had to cut a piece of my tibia on the other side so that the axis could change and that space would open for the meniscus to fit.
The 46-year-old former footballer, who He retired from football in 2003remembers in words reproduced by the Cadena SER website that he underwent a knee transplant in the United States and that “that led to three other operations. The compartment was already so compressed that they had to cut a piece of my tibia from the other side so that the axis changed and that space opened so that the meniscus could fit.
Álvaro Benito: “When I retired I decided that my knee was not going to screw up my life anymore”
Currently Álvaro Benito explained to Hand Carry that “when I stand for a long time I always have a bad time.”
“When I retired I decided that the knee was not going to screw up my life anymore. I don’t pay any attention to it. I take care of it just enough so that it survives by my side, because we will die together. Maybe it will die before me because it will be my turn.” put on a prosthesis,” he noted.
