In an interview published this Sunday, Amine Harit spoke at length about his knee injury and his new ambitions.
Amine Harit comes a long way. After saying goodbye to his World Cup dreams last November following a rupture of the cruciate ligament in his left knee, the Moroccan international returned to competition withOlympic Marseille this season. Under the orders of Marcelino then Gennaro Gattuso, the 26-year-old player shines and can finally show himself ambitious individually and collectively.
In an interview given to The Team published this Sunday, the player trained in Nantes returned to this painful episode but during which he learned a lot. “It was hard. I’m not going to be the guy who wasn’t disgusted. But I managed to quickly think about my rehabilitation. Whether I was angry or happy, it was the same sentence. Ten months is both a long time and it goes by very quickly”explained Harit first.
A still unknown “donor”
Who then returned in more detail to the details of his operation, with a ligament graft which would not have been possible just a few years ago. “The surgeon confided: your career would have been over ten years ago. I didn’t really understand at first! He said to me: ‘We’re going to graft ligaments taken from a deceased person and frozen’. Pawww… I look at him, skeptical, we’re talking about a dead person! Today, I smile about it, but at the time you say to yourself: ‘I would rather take a part of myself than take something from a dead person’. (…) I just hoped, since it was the left leg, that the person had a good left foot. Maybe I would come across a Messi! I don’t know today who “gave” me this ligament.”he said.
Being the Kobe Bryant of OM
Harit then mentioned one of his idols, Kobe Bryant (former basketball player who died in 2020), who greatly inspired and pushed him to return to his best level thanks in particular to the latter’s autobiography. “I read it at a point where you ask yourself: ‘Am I going to get back to my best?’ And there, there is this person, rest his soul, who is an incredible source of inspiration. (…) I said to myself: ‘You’re sick, I’m going to be the Kobe Bryant of OM’. The number 11 will try to shine at the Stade Vélodrome this Sunday for the reception of Olympique Lyonnais at the end of the 10th day of Ligue 1.
