The former soccer player and coach Eusebio Sacristán is in an induced coma after undergoing surgery this Thursday at the Valladolid Clinical Hospital to improve intracranial pressure that has caused a clot in the head, as a result of a fall and head trauma, according to health sources.
Eusebio will remain in the hospital pending his evolution, as reported by the Foundation that bears his name in a statement and, at the express wish of the family of the former soccer player and coach, it will be said entity that provides the news about your health status.
Since the acute complications in this type of trauma derive from the increase in cranial pressure, the intervention has been carried out to lower this pressure and he will have to remain intubated and in an induced coma until his evolution is verified in the next few hours.
Eusebio Sacristán’s family wanted to transmit “a sincere thanks” to all the people, the media and colleagues in the world of sport who are taking an interest in their state of health.
Eusebio Sacristán Mena was trained in the Real Valladolid quarry to debut in the first team at the age of 19 and, after four years, he signed for Atlético de Madrid, where he spent a season, to spend the next seven seasons at Johan Cruyff’s Barcelona.
After signing for Celta de Vigo in the 1995/96 season and playing there for two years, he returned to Real Valladolid, where he said goodbye as a player in 2002, with 543 accumulated games, which made him the third player who has played the most official games in the history of the League, only behind Zubizarreta and Raúl González.
As a coach, Eusebio has trained Celta de Vigo, the Barcelona subsidiary, Real Sociedad and Girona, from which he left in 2019, without having returned to occupy a bench since thenTherefore, during this time he has turned to the Foundation that bears his name and now resides in Valladolid.
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