Amine Harit is a football miracle. Thanks to a ligament graft, the details of which he gives today.
On November 13, 2022, a month before flying to Qatar with Morocco to take part in the Football World Cup, Amine Harit collapsed on the lawn of Louis-II, overcome by pain and a collision with Axel Disasi synonymous with rupture of the cruciate ligaments of the left knee. An injury that could have ended his career if it had occurred a few years earlier, according to the very admission of the surgeon who worked to get him back on his feet.
If Amine Harit, scorer this week in the Europa League against AEK Athens, is once again making OM happy, it is thanks to a ligament transplant that was still unimaginable until recently. “ I didn’t really understand at first! The surgeon told me: “We are going to graft ligaments taken from a deceased person and frozen”. Pawww… I look at him, skeptical, we’re talking about a dead personexclaims the 26-year-old Moroccan international in an interview with L’Equipe. 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 deceased person…” Then he spoke to me about preservation, maintenance . Everything is done so that it is perfect, like a new organ. I was just hoping, 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. »
A delicate return to football
Willy-nilly, Amine Harit overcame this ordeal, away from the field for almost nine months, until August 2 and a friendly match against Leverkusen. “ It was hard. I’m not going to act like the strong 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. » His return to business happened gradually, step by step. “ It was tricky. You come in for a bit, then you don’t play anymore, then you overplay because you missed it, you can’t manage it, you want to do a little too much. Getting back into a good rhythm, getting back into the football routine, training, the match… it’s hard to put everything back in place after a trauma. » A trauma well and truly behind him today.
