"Juan Fernando Quintero has the mentality and talent that very few Colombian soccer players have had", that today at 29;With two World Cup and a Copa Libertadores, hearing it from anyone would be obvious.However, Camilo González, one of the best kinesiologists in the country, affirmed it hardly started working with the River Plate midfielder today.
It was in 2010, ‘Juanfer’ was not even of legal age, but it was the jewel of the Envigado quarry.Pedro Sarmiento, a technician at the time of the orange team, put him against Pasto and in a hard action Germán Mera caused him a tibia break."My God, why? Why?" A young quintero was leaving in the middle of crying.
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"I met him.It was a December 23.He was a teenager in full process to become a professional.Since then his personality belongs to someone from elite.Those who have been able to know him and be with him.com.
Juan Fernando Quintero's injuries
Despite the painful of that fracture, since “it was a very difficult time.Grabbed it in full process with the Colombia Sub-20 team.We were six months of rehabilitation and there our professional relationship was strengthened ”;Quintero's worst injury occurred in River Plate, with the ‘10’ on the back and after having converted the most important goal of recent times in the history of the ‘millionaire’.That is, at the highest peak of his career.
“He suffered the cross ligament of his left knee.It was seven very hard months.He had started that 2019 making goals and being figure.It was his best moment.I spent two weeks accompanying him in Buenos Aires and I was part of the rehabilitation, ”he said.
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“There is wear due to physical activity and ligament injury can generate other injuries, but we enter our work there.We are responsible for reinforcing all muscle groups so that this does not happen.And there is also the athlete's discipline.In the case of Quintero that is not any objection ”.
“It's what people assume, but it's not their case.He is not a player who goes to the shock or has 90 intense minutes, he does not need that to appear.You have to see the movements that make it stop and change the rhythm in seconds, that can tend that there are sudden rotation injuries.In addition, it is someone who is constantly hitting him, so playing strengthening in all his muscle areas.Undoubtedly that the letter of presentation of a player is that he has a good physique, but the great talents break with all the schemes ”.
“Juan became a vegetarian, for many it is contradictory, but that part seems good to me in the sense that he gives you a discipline to eat and he assumed it in a good way.Do not transnocha or drink alcohol.Has a quiet life.Enjoy your surroundings and give your tastes, but you have the mind focused on a single objective that is to enjoy soccer play.That is what moves him and makes him happy ”.
"That everyone says he is a lazy player.That hurts a lot because people don't really know all the things he has had to sacrifice to be the professional who is.He has a daughter who could not be with him in China, could not share with his family.He has a very large vacuum for his father and that means that he had to take care of his own from a very young age when he did not even have for the passages.I have known its emotional part and how it has faced its problems and, everything has surpassed thanks to its talent and dedication ”.
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"Juan Fernando Quintero arrived from China with discomfort"
According to González, the Antioquia midfielder had been complaining about the conditions of the courts in Chinese football, which were very hard.I was not injured, but it began to feel discomfort in the knees after training and behind the games.
“He called me when it is in China and we realized that I had a bursitis, inflation of an area that is like a cushion that helps cushion the rubbing between the muscles, tendons and bones;It can be common in professional players.It was not a thing that requires disability, beyond the discomfort that it can generate, which is still bearable.He even hurt him more when he didn't play than when he played.The Colombian National Team doctor saw it and it wasn't to worry.We all agree on the same, ”he replied.
Despite the latter, González was clear to ensure that Quintero's current injury has nothing to do with the discomfort he had been dragging from the Asian country.“Already in the party it was a distension of medial collateral, in the same leg, but it was not generated by bursitis.It was more the ligament.It would have happened at any time, with or without bursitis.He had been training and competing normally.This injury that suffered a disability for more than was not so serious ”.
"I was with him when he returned from the selection.We saw the resonance and last three days working on rehabilitation before he traveled to Argentina.You must be doing work with a ball to reintegrate to the physical part.River has very good professionals so he is in the best hands, ”he said.
And it is that precisely Marcelo Gallardo's painting was an incentive to relieve the pain that Quintero had after being outside the call for these crucial duels against Peru and Argentina.“I was sad because I was happy and excited to the Honduras party.I wanted to be in the qualifiers, I knew I could help.But at the same time he got happy before leaving Medellín because he motivated him to return to River, he traveled Alegre ”.
Juan Fernando Quintero's best anecdotes
"I have many anecdotes," says González, who states that what impresses him with Quintero is the ability he has to anticipate what will end up happening.It has been a constant in his career and not in vain thanks to that strength and confidence to achieve all his successes.
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