BARCELONA: Barcelona’s talismanic captain Carles Puyol has said another injury-interrupted season like the one just finishing could force him to consider hanging up his boots.
“I doubt I could stand another season of injuries like the one I have just had,” the defender told a news conference yesterday.
“If the problems continue next season I will have to quit. These things happen in football,” the Spaniard added.
The 35-year-old missed Spain’s triumph at Euro 2012 after having surgery on his right knee last May, and fractured his cheekbone in Barca’s second league game at Osasuna in August.
Twisted ligaments in his left knee sidelined him again in September, and Puyol dislocated his left elbow in October.
A nagging knee problem further restricted his appearances and finally he went under the knife again in March for surgery on the cartilage in his right knee in the hope he could return for the end of the campaign.
He has only make 13 appearances in La Liga and four in the Champions League this season.
“My objective is to arrive 100 percent fit for the new season,” he said. REUTERS
