It is surprising how, in a seen and unseen, you can pass completely to nothing. A gesture, a simple decision. Any change can be abrupt, however minimal the intention. María Araújo, Spar Girona player, opened the spring of 2021 with the big door. His state of form was capital, sublime. Direct impact on a team that had just won its first (and so far only) Copa de la Reina, which landed in the quarter-finals of the Euroleague. The results in the collective section were favorable and individually, the prospect of participating in the Olympic Games gained strength week after week. But everything went wrong. In any training session, Araújo got hurt. From white to black. Serious injury to the right knee, with multiple structures affected. This explained the club’s short press release. Few words but a much bigger meaning. Goodbye to the season, to the dream of the Games and, after all, to continuing to enjoy basketball, from the inside, for a good few months. More than a year has passed and, bluntly, it can be assured that the player is back to what she was. As if nothing had happened. The numbers explain it. The sensations confirm it. The captain has been playing again for some time, but every time she does, she multiplies her performances.
In the injury, he was accompanied by a thousand messages of encouragement. Nearby people, clubs and even the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB). Araújo received all the support of the Uni, who renewed his contract despite questions about his physical condition. She had been operated on and it was to be seen how she would return, once she was clean. Loaded with patience and good will, she set to work. The recovery lasted eight months and did not reappear until January 2022. It hasn’t even been a full year since it’s been available again. She had five minutes in last season’s 55-61 win in Valencia and was greeted with applause by the visiting fans. The starting point after the point and part. Since then, its growth has been evident and at the same time constant.
Figures on the rise
Araújo is Araújo again. On Friday, for example, in the derby with Cadí held in Palau: 11 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists. Wednesday, in the Euroleague and in front of a Perfumerías Avenida: 15 points, 9 rebounds and 21 rating credits. No luck or anything extraordinary. The routine of a player who is once again a differential in the Women’s League (7.8 points and 8.2 rebounds on average) and also in Europe (8.3 points and 6.2 rebounds on average). In one and another competition, it is 25 minutes that he usually participates from the inside, on the track It is necessary, Bernat Canut and everyone knows it. shine again, with figures modeled on the best he had recorded in Fontajau. And he still has rope for a while.
