Big Interview: QPR’s Alejandro Faurlin Posted on September 23, 2015 by Adam Ellis in Featured, Features, Skybet Championship | 0 Comments by Chris Dunlavy ALEJANDRO Faurlin isn’t asking a lot. “I don’t want to be player of the year,” says QPR’s Argen- tinian midfielder. “I don’t want to score a hundred goals and get a big move for millions of pounds. I’m just asking to finish a whole season. That’s all.” It is four years since Faurlin last managed that simple task. Three since he suffered the first in a trio of catastrophic knee injuries. A ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in his right. Another in his left. A sickening recurrence just 12 months later. Each required surgery and months of gruelling rehab. Each reduced one of the Championship’s finest midfielders to a hobbling spectator. Each sapped a little more of his determination to battle on. “I went through different stages,” explains Faurlin, who has played just 40 times since winning promotion to the Premier League under Neil Warnock in 2011. “The first two, I was very upset, very angry and frustrated. I spent a lot of time thinking ‘Why me? Why now?’ But I was very determined to come back. The third was much worse. I just had a big empty feeling. Very, very dark. After the operation I had no motivation. I thought maybe I should just give up. “Physically, I was OK. You get many players who have a situation where they have destroyed their knee or they have long-term cartilage problems and the doctors say ‘We can do nothing’. “For me, each injury was a one-off that could be fixed. It was never a case of ‘I won’t be able to play’. After so many problems, it was a case of ‘Do I want to? Can I keep fighting?’ “It wasn’t until the end of the rehab that I really started to feel that ‘Yes, I do want to play football again’. Before that was terrible – I wouldn’t wish those thoughts on anyone.” Speaking to Faurlin now, four games into his latest QPR comeback, it is hard to imagine the sunny South American wallowing in the depths of despair. Read the rest here ... http://www.theleaguepaper.com/featured/2235/big-interview-qprs-alejandro-faurlin/
Him and Clint my fav players by a mile, even if he were to have another serious injury I would love the club to keep him on, maybe as a coach for the kids? Genuine and nice bloke, yes he has been getting paid for being injured but you can tell if possible the man would love to be playing every game, the full 90 minutes, unlike some in recent history who have been happy to sit back not caring at all if they even make the bench! A true gent in a time of mercenaries
I liked this comment he made ... “Suddenly, we have half a chance for promotion again. If you come down to our training ground, you will see how strong we are – and how united.”
Annoying thing this season is I keep on getting my hopes up, now with this interview and Sandro and Fer coming back, heard Fer has been passed fit for Friday
Great interview, Ale has overcome some really bad luck, just hope this is his year and he can guide us back to the top with the other players in the squad.
I'm not sure anyone, whether it be players, fans or managers, has a bad word to say about Ale. Says it all. Top player and more importantly, person!
Superb stuff from Ale. I so hope he gets his wish of a full season. Plus, if he does, we will have benefited hugely. He is a very, very good player.
Great read thanks for posting. Ale is firmly fixed as a favourite for many fans. All of us wish him well this season and pray he stays injury-free. What is most humbling is his positivity and determination to good out of his misfortune. A true role model for aspiring teens. Imagine the noise if Ale scored at Loftus Road, the roof would come off.
