In less than two months,
Gastón Hernández went from being almost sold to Europe for more than three million dollars to suffering one of the worst injuries that can happen to a soccer player
: the rupture of the cruciate knee ligament, something that demands between six and eight months of recovery.
The
San Lorenzo
defender started 2024 in a busy manner and instead of thinking about taking a leap in his career in the middle of the year, now he will have to focus on his rehabilitation to come back stronger.
Meanwhile, in the Ciclón they chose
not to use the quota to replace him
and will not go to the market to look for reinforcement.
"I broke
," Hernández himself told
Gastón Suso
, Platense player, last Saturday in Vicente López when he felt the whip on his right knee in an unfortunate play 11 minutes into the second half.
Tears flooded his eyes already on the cart.
He knew what it was about.
He had already had the same injury in 2021 when he was on loan at San Martín de San Juan, but in his left leg.
In the last few hours, the medical studies confirmed what everyone in the Barça locker room already assumed.
"Unfortunately, I have to go through this injury again but I know that this makes me stronger for what is to come. I want to thank everyone for the messages of encouragement, my family who are my support, my girlfriend, my teammates who from the first moment they were with me, the coaching staff, the leaders and everyone who has given me strength in some way
," the footballer wrote on his networks.
The last month and a half was extremely intense for Tonga.
The thing is that this defender, who with Ruben Darío Insua established himself in the Primera de San Lorenzo and became a key piece of the Barça defensive system, was literally about to get on a plane to travel to France, which was going to be his new destination football.
Gastón Hernández was one of the San Lorenzo footballers to be sold in the middle of the year.
Photo: San Lorenzo
Olympiacos came with everything for him and the sale had been verbally finalized at 3.5 million dollars for 85 percent of his pass the last week of January.
At 26 years old, Hernández was going to take the big step to the other side of the Atlantic.
However, a last-minute change in payment conditions by the French threw everything back and his ticket, which had already been issued, became obsolete.
He never got on the plane and immediately rejoined the Gallego team, who immediately returned him to ownership.
The leadership was seeking to renew his contract that expires at the end of the year, but his goal was to try to complete the postponed sale abroad in the next transfer book.
In fact, he was one of the players with the greatest sales power on the Ciclón squad due to age and current status, along with Agustín Giay, Adam Bareiro, Nahuel Barrios, Iván Leguizamón and Gonzalo Luján.
That things happen for a reason... That what does not have to be will not be... Surely nothing he will hear these days will comfort Gastón Hernández.
Maybe a phrase from Marcelo Bielsa will help you know that it is time to swallow poison because everything balances out in the end.