Former Real Madrid defender Fernando Hierro has calmed Los Blancos fans’ fears over Gareth Bale’s back problems revealing he played his whole career with a disc bulge, the same injury the Welshman suffers.
Hierro affirmed he didn’t have any problem to develop his professional career in football and he never needed surgery.
“Every patient is a different case, but I was playing with a disc protrusion until I was 37 years old. The medical staff, the club and the coach have to make a decision after analysing the data. In my case, after 18 years in professional football, I keep playing with my friends without the need of entering an operating room,” Hierro said.
Los Blancos’ legend believes there was no need for such an alarm. “Bale’s pre-season has been atypical. His signing wasn’t closed until the last minute and it’s easy to make statements from outside, but it’s the club, the manager and the doctors who have to make the decision after the medical tests. If they decide he can start playing it was because they see he is fit, otherwise they’ll give him more time to rest and adapt to the team,” he concluded.
The former Real Madrid captain left the club ten years ago this week after 14 seasons in the first team squad, when Florentino Perez decided to radically change the team despite having won the league title. The president fired the manager Vicente del Bosque and the captain, a decision that still today is very criticised.
