Become one of the first team captains, a heavyweight in the dressing room and one of the green and white fans’ favorite footballers. Mark Bartra will not forget this 2024, which is about to end. A year that started in the worst way for him and which with effort, persistence and dedication ended with a new opportunity to show that he still has a lot of football in him.
The previous season for the Catalans’ central defender was cut short in the fall of 2023, partly due to injury. Achilles tendon because of the right leg Haglund’s syndrome which forced him to undergo an operation. His and the medical services’ goal was to return in the early months of this year, which ends today. However, his recovery took months due to discomfort that prevented him from training normally, and which cast doubt on whether he could regain his best form.
I will always remember 2024 as the year I became the Mark I so desperately wanted to find again.
Just four games last season
He closed out his comeback season Betisafter passing through Trabzonspor in a gesture that honors him by helping the club achieve records that have been difficult for him with just four games in. But he never let it get the better of him and remained determined to once again become a great centre-back who shined. Barcelona, “Borussia” Dortmund. and his early years Benito Villamarfocusing on full recovery by 2024-25.
This new course that the equator is about to take served to confirm that the best bartra has returned He was a starter in August, scoring on the opening day Gironabut suffered a muscle injury a few days later Mendizorosathe logical consequence of such prolonged inactivity slowed his progress for several weeks. However, he has played 11 games since mid-October, with 10 starts and two more goals, establishing himself in the team’s eleven. Pellegrini.
I found myself on the floor, it was a brutal personal lesson, drawing strength I didn’t even know I had in difficult moments.
A solid central pairing with Llorente
Mark: with forms a strong central pair Diego Llorente and looks optimistically at the present and the future. As he said in an emotional letter published on his social networks the other day, 2024 was a difficult year for him because of everything he had to overcome, but it also served as a lesson and learn to become better. football player One of the players who most identified with what “Betismo” is and what it means is ready to continue to bring success to the club where he has found his place.
“2024, thank you for teaching me so much. I will always remember you as the year I became that person again.” Mark: that I wanted to rediscover so much after a long time,” he begins by saying bartra in his letter. “I’m grateful to have even hit rock bottom all these years ago, it was a brutal personal lesson that gathered strength I didn’t even know I had during difficult times, both personally and professionally,” she adds. he
Mental and physical health is everything, but it is impossible without effort, without determination, without dedication, without hard work and without courage.
Mark’s emotional letter
“Mental and physical health is anything but effort, no excuses, no commitment, no determination, no intelligence, no painful decisions, no hard work, no courage, and above all, truly wanting to be who you want to be.” to be and do everything within your power, it is impossible to move forward in the best way”, insists the Catalan central defender, opening up to the fans.
“We are not what happens to us in life, we are what we do with what happens to us. As I always say to myself, pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Thank you all who close ones, those who support even though we don’t know each other, the people with whom I have shared moments during this year, from whom I have learned something and take the best from them, and above all, My The tribe, Who always add truth, unconditionally and from the heart. “We are going to an unforgettable year 2025, because we are ready for anything,” he concludes. bartra.