After an absence of over six months from the football pitch, Donny van de Beek is nearing his return. In a 14-minute interview with his former club Ajax, he confirms that he feels \u2018in great physical shape\u2019. \u201cI hope to rejoin the team in a few weeks\u2019 time.\u201d<\/p>\n
On 23 September last year, things went terribly wrong for Van de Beek. In the away match against Athletic Club, the Girona midfielder ruptured his Achilles tendon. Van de Beek screamed in agony and had to undergo months of rehabilitation. Now he is finally nearing his return.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m doing well,” begins Van de Beek, who turns 29 later this month. “I\u2019m obviously on my way back to the pitch, but things are actually going really well. I feel physically great. I\u2019m really raring to go and make my comeback.”<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m currently working flat out with the physio and training on the pitch. I hope to join the team in a few weeks\u2019 time, so things are looking good. Being out on the pitch is the best thing there is. At a certain point, you just get fed up with the gym.”<\/p>\n
“As a footballer, you want to get out on the pitch and have a go with the ball. That\u2019s the stage I\u2019m at now. Eventually, you start to feel more and more positive and you really get that itch to play football again. I can\u2019t wait to rejoin the team; I\u2019m not far off.”<\/p>\n
The injury, its consequences and the months of rehabilitation took their toll on Van de Beek. “It was incredibly tough, of course,” he admits. “Especially the first few months. When something like that happens, it\u2019s incredibly frustrating and difficult.”<\/p>\n
“Because it\u2019s such a long process, and of course you really don\u2019t fancy that at all. Fortunately, I\u2019ve now managed to put that behind me and in a few weeks\u2019 time I\u2019ll be able to rejoin the team and help them out again. That\u2019s the best bit: training with the ball and playing matches.”<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve worked really hard. We\u2019ve been training every day, including in the gym. Obviously, I couldn\u2019t do much on the pitch, and I\u2019m still doing some gym work, but now my focus is really back on the pitch. We\u2019re in the final stages. There\u2019s still a bit to go, but things are going well,” said Van de Beek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After an absence of over six months from the football pitch, Donny van de Beek is nearing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,29687,29686,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-53726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-amsterdam","8":"tag-amsterdam","9":"tag-d-van-de-beek","10":"tag-girona","11":"tag-netherlands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116332969742744459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}