Mathieu Warnier, Media365: published on Tuesday December 31, 2024 at 4:20 p.m.
Spent by OM between 2021 and 2024 without playing a single match, Spanish striker Pedro Ruiz announced this Monday that he was ending his career at just 24 years old. He explained his choice by numerous injuries over the years.
Pedro Ruiz has definitely given up on his dreams. Coming from the Real Madrid training center and then a member of the Olympique de Marseille squad between 2021 and 2024, the Spanish striker announced this Monday that he had made the decision to end his career at just 24 years old. Indeed, loaned by the Marseille club to NEC Nijmegen during the 2021-2022 season, he was only able to play three matches and has not set foot on a pitch since November 20, 2021. During an interview granted to the Spanish daily Ashe confided that the origin of the problems which disrupted his career dates back to a match played with the Real Madrid reserves in January 2020, during which he suffered a serious injury to his left knee. “On a clearance from my central defender, I was in a duel with Copete, who is now in Mallorca, I jumped with a knee cramp and when I stretched it, everything broke,” he said. -he confided. The cruciate, the internal meniscus and the external meniscus. » But, despite the injury, Pedro Ruiz assured that he was not able to leave the pitch, obeying the instructions of Raúl, former glory of the Merengue club who is still at the head of Castilla. “Stubborn as I am, I played another five minutes,” added the Seville native. But I remember they scored a goal and when it was time to take the throw-in, my knee completely dislocated. »
Pedro Ruiz: “Nothing worked”
Having consulted Doctor Manuel Leyes, Pedro Ruiz assured that the latter told him that “it was the worst knee injury he had ever seen in his life”. Thanks to Pablo Longoria, the Spanish striker found a way out by signing up with OM in 2021, being immediately loaned to the Netherlands. “I had the impression of coming back to life,” confided the Andalusian. I made my debut in a friendly match against a Bundesliga team and I scored… I was in pain, but I went to train on the bike, it was heaven for me. » A new injury then stopped him once again after only three matches. “In Marseille, they saw that I had a cruciate strain, it was not broken but it was not doing its job,” summarized Pedro Ruiz. After long weeks of trying everything to regain a fully functional knee, the young Spanish striker had to resolve to stop the costs. “We spent a lot of money, but nothing worked,” he concluded. My problem isn't that I can't play at a high level, it's that I can't run from here to there. » Hope of Spanish football in its early days, Pedro Ruiz tiptoed from the world of football, without having been able to confirm the expectations placed on him.
