RODRIGO CAIO MAKES STRONG STATEMENTS AND REVEALS THAT HE WAS AFRAID OF LOSING HIS LEG

One of the red-negro's recent idols, the defender Rodrigo Caio won 11 titles during his time at Flamengo, but suffered from repeated knee problems, which made him fear losing his leg. The player, who is without a club, detailed the drama, which began at the São Paulo base.

"Desperate, because you're faced with something you've never experienced, you didn't know how to deal with it. A lot of people talking, it was It was quite difficult for me. It was a very difficult mental process, inside the hospital, I started thinking a lot of nonsense. from ESPN

What else did the former Flamengo player say?

First injury was with São Paulo: "I had my first injury in 2008, I was 15 years old. I had a patella fracture. I hit knee to knee and ended up fracturing the patella. But since then, I've never had it again. I had pain in that knee, nothing."

Shared with Michael and "limit of the limit" in the 2021 Libertadores: "In the middle of 2020, when Domènec had just arrived, I had another trauma in the same area; I was carrying the ball, I made the movement, Michael slipped, I slipped. When I slipped, his knee hit the medial part of my knee. Then it started to worsen, bone edema due to the trauma. It was that struggle to recover and be available to train, play, always with a lot of pain. Instead of stopping, take a break, recover, strengthen, take away the pain. I went, and it got worse. There came a moment that became very difficult, which was in the Libertadores final (2021). I reached the limit."

Renato Gaúcho's Strategy: "Renato was a very special guy for me, because he helped me a lot. I wish I had stopped sooner, he said: 'I need you'. I said: 'Renato, I can't take it anymore, I need to stop'. I didn't stop, he started giving me rest, sometimes I didn't train, I played. I took it all the way to the Libertadores final."

'Difficult mental process': "I had warned the people at Flamengo that once the Libertadores ended I would stop to do all the tests to see whether it was bone edema caused by the blow. At the end of the season, I had arthroscopy to see, but I got an infection. Something I did to resolve it... I spent 13 days taking antibiotics. Desperate, because you're faced with something you've never experienced, you didn't know how to deal with. A lot of people talking, it was quite difficult for me. It was a very difficult mental process, inside the hospital, I started thinking a lot of nonsense. I even thought about whether I was going to die, have my leg amputated, various situations."