Recently retired, Spanish forward Pedro Ruiz Delgado (24 years old) expressed his gratitude to Pablo Longoria, who took him to Olympique Marseille, even though he never played a game for the club.
On Monday, in an interview with Marca, Pedro Ruiz Delgado announced his retirement at the young age of 24. The striker, who is close to 2 meters tall, revealed that he has no cartilage left in one knee due to a serious injury suffered in January 2020 while playing for the Real Madrid youth team. He can no longer run even five meters. When he signed with Marseille in 2021, he still held out hope that he could recover. However, after consulting several specialists, he had to face the harsh reality: it is impossible for him to play again, not even at the amateur level. During the interview, he made sure to thank Pablo Longoria, who brought him to Marseille and did everything he could to help his recovery.
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“I owe a lot to Longoria”
“In my last days in Madrid, I saw the light, and that was when I signed with Olympique de Marseille. It was all thanks to Pablo Longoria, who previously wanted me in Valencia. I owe him a lot. He gave me a new opportunity in life. I needed to leave Madrid, change my environment; I had spent too many months doing the same thing… Marseille transferred me to NEC Nijmegen during my first year, and it was like living again. A small city that seems like a fairy tale, I made my debut in. a friendly match against a Bundesliga team and I scored… I felt discomfort, but I trained on my bike; it was a real paradise for me until in a training session, during a turn, I heard the crack and the nightmares came again. In Marseille, they saw that my cruciate ligament was not torn, but it was not working as it should. The club’s head doctor told me that I would have to have surgery again, and that everything would be fine. But I spent another year in and out. from training. take three steps… It’s impossible. “I just lost hope of playing Football at the last second.”
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