“The injury was a shock, it took me six months to settle into the real world”

Anna Carbon will never forget a date: September 11, 2015. That day, in a fortuitous action during a training session with Uni Girona, he seriously injure the cartilage of the knee left What initially in the club’s medical statements was to be resolved with an arthroscopy and between four and six weeks off extended months and months, leaving her the entire season blank, until she said enough. It was April 2016 when the escort announced its premature retirement from basketball, aged 27, after ten seasons as a professional, eight of them in Girona. Anna Carbó played 202 games in all this time with the Uni shirt, which was retired in December 2017 with its number “7” next to Noe Jordana’s and hangs from the ceiling of Fontajau, with 1,890 points and 264 assists. He experienced promotion to the elite with that team led by Anna Caula and the 2015 league title with Roberto Íñiguez, among other milestones, this, one of the ones he remembers most fondly, with a packed Fontajau celebrating the triumph against the Avenue. It does, however, have a thorn: not having been able to debut in theEuroleague when I had to touch it.

The grief was not easy – “I still had basketball left, it wasn’t something you fold at the end of your career, and it came to me unexpectedly”, he confesses – but today Carbó, aged 34, is happy living in Barcelona and working in the world of banking, taking advantage of the fact that while he was playing in the first years in Girona, he took the Law course. “The injury was a very strong shock, I spent some time, maybe six months, to settle into real life. I got hurt at the worst moment, when my career was at its peak”, emphasizes the ex-escort, who does not hide that for a long time he could not even watch matches on television. Taking advantage of the fact that her sister worked in banking and that she had the relevant studies, she submitted her CV and in February 2017 she started a new life. Off the slopes. The office.

With the grief over, Carbó assures that this season will come to Fontajau. He is excited by Laura Antoja’s team and wants to make up for lost time a little. In fact, she has been keeping in touch with people from the club, such as the current coach or, more commonly, with former player Jael Freixanet. “I went through a very long mourning. He didn’t lift his head, he didn’t want to watch basketball, because he couldn’t do what he had always done. The few times I had been to Fontajau it was very difficult to enter the pavilion”, he says. As a player, she had already sought the help of a psychologist, since the age of 19, because “being an athlete you have a lot of pressure and if this affects your mind, it also ends up affecting your body and performance”. The forced retirement due to injury (it ended up being discovered that he had no cartilage and this, although it allows him to lead a normal life, it would have conditioned him a lot if he kept playing and threatened his health) he also required the help of a professional to overcome it, and he succeeded. “The doctor made the choice clear to me, he told me ‘if you keep playing, you’ll have to do it secretly and at 35 you’ll have to get a prosthesis. If you fold, you can lead a normal life’». During this whole process, for a year, he also acted as a referee for grassroots matches, “although I left it due to time incompatibility, I spent many hours at work and at the end of the weekend I wanted tranquility” .

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Today’s Anna Carbó continues to play sports. He goes to the gym, an informal game of basketball “every now and then”, and, above all, cycling. “I’ve bought a mountain bike and on the weekends I go on very cool excursions”, he confesses. Another of his hobbies is “traveling for leisure, before I only did it for work, only visiting pavilions. When I have holidays I like to travel, get to know countries and see the world».

Of the change of track to the office, he remembers that “at first, coming from doing sports for four or five hours to spending eight hours sitting in a chair caused me a lot of back pain”, but little by little it went away getting used to The schedules have nothing to do with the life of the past either. Now at eight in the morning he is already in the office, and he has to get up early. He has put his colleagues on record. That she had been a professional basketball player and that, even in Girona, his shirt had been removed. “But I don’t know if they understand much,” he jokes, adding that he only explains “battles” to them if they ask him. Happy with the new life, despite missing basketball, he also dedicates a final declaration of love for Girona: “I had a great time there. The city welcomed me in an incredible way and I will always be grateful. They were eight very good years of my life, which I will never forget.”

2023-09-25 07:21:11
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