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/
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/
