How Cazorla resurrected his career at Villarreal after injury nightmare
Villarreal player Santi Cazorla went 636 days without playing a football game.
After issues arising from an Achilles injury that reached an excruciating crescendo in October 2016, the then Arsenal player was given a grim prognosis by doctors.
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"They told me, 'If you get to walk again with your son in the garden, be satisfied," Cazorla told MARCA last year.
"[They] saw that I had a tremendous infection, that I had damaged part of the calcaneus bone and it had eaten the Achilles tendon. There was eight centimetres of it missing!"
After needing 10 operations and a skin graft that used tissue on the forearm that bore the name of his daughter, Cazorla would have been forgiven for retiring.
But a man that rarely plays ...