Ernesto Valverde wanted to pay tribute to what the Ghanaian striker has done in the last two years: “He stepped on glass and got a deep wound on his foot” due to which “for some months he had been complaining of discomfort in the scar”.
Athletic Bilbao’s Iñaki Williams has played for two years with a crystal of “about two centimeters” embedded in the sole of his left foot, which was removed during surgery on Tuesday.
“Iñaki Williams broke the record for consecutive games and won a Cup and had a two-centimeter crystal embedded in the sole of his foot. It’s disconcerting, but it’s the way it is,” revealed coach Ernesto Valverde, with the player’s permission, in the pre-match press conference ahead of the match against Rayo Vallecano.
“He gave me permission to tell this story because it’s worth telling,” explained Valverde, who commented that the eldest of the Williams brothers, during the holidays two years ago, “stepped on a glass and got a deep wound on the foot” due to which “for some months he had been complaining of discomfort in the scar”.
“He was undergoing treatment and after the Copa del Rey final, on April 6, an MRI was done and the glass was still stuck in the sole of his foot. When they sewed it up they left the glass for about 2 centimeters and it was already approaching the bone or a tendon”, he clarified.
“The doctor and I burst out laughing because we didn’t believe it,” Valverde confessed.
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