“We’re here again.” The dorsal 9 of Barça is again from Ricky Rubio. The El Masnou point guard, dressed in a gray sweatshirt and light blue jeans, sat on a stool, picked up the microphone and opened up completely. He wanted to be the first to speak at the official presentation of him as a Barça player, before the president did so. John Laporta and the manager responsible for the section Joseph Cubells.
“The basketball player ate the person,” Rubio admitted in front of a Auditorium 1899 full, with the coach Roger Grimau and the players Álex Abrines, Nico Laprovittola and Jabari Parker present. Also, among others, the general director of the section Juan Carlos Navarro and the assistant Victor Sadawith whom they lifted the second Euroleague in the section.
chronic stress
“I have developed chronic stress and needed time to regulate it. I never put a label of depression or anxiety disorder on it. I wanted to understand why I had reached that point and why it was happening to me,” explained Rubio, who wanted to explain the process that has kept him away from the slopes since August of last year, when he left the Spanish team’s concentration before the World Cup. Asian.
There were two factors that led to his mental health problems: “There has been an internal factor and an external factor. There were some mechanisms that had led me to play at the highest level, but they were not sustainable even though I thought they were. Now I see another way, with sustainable mechanisms. “I will be just as demanding, but in a different way.”
Rubio wanted to thank him for respecting his privacy throughout the recovery process and for the support given to him by both the Spanish team and the Cleveland Cavaliers. “The Federation could have pushed me to continue playing and chose to think about the person before the player.”“said the player, who returned to the court with the national team against Latvia and Belgium.
“I felt like I had to get away from basketball. I couldn’t do it in Cleveland, I had to do it at home. I didn’t know who she was. I was very scared, but they have made me see that that fear can be managed. Being afraid is not the same as being nervous,” she pointed out.
Basketball was over
He came to think that basketball was over: “Since August 1, every day I woke up, basketball was over. The person had disappeared. I have learned it, I have built myself from the inside out and it is something that costs a lot, but is very rewarding.”
Walking through the mountains with his physiotherapist, he wanted to talk about basketball again, after several months without wanting to know anything about his sport. He got that spark back. “After three or four months we started talking about basketball for the first time. I thought that if the bug came back at 50 or 45 I wouldn’t be able to play anymore; At 33, yes, so I decided to give basketball a new chance,” he said.
“What I asked of Barça was not easy”
At the beginning of February, Ricky Rubio asked Barça to train with them, without obligation. “What I asked for was not easy, entering a professional club in the middle of a season and asking for unusual conditions… and they accepted it at all times. The locker room has accepted me and respected me, they have treated me as one of their own from the beginning,” he commented.
After returning to the court with the Spanish team, Barça’s Euroleague match this Friday against Monaco at the Palau Blaugrana seemed like the stage for his return with Barça. However, the point guard did not play more than 13 minutes against Belgium. due to some discomfort in the knee. “It’s nothing serious, I’m adjusting the ship. It’s been six months without playing a game. Today was the day of the signing and I am available to the staff. “I come to a team that is moving forward, we have to see how and when to get in.” Rubio wanted to downplay the inconvenience, although he still does not want to set a date for his return.
“I would like to be able to enjoy, be comfortable and control the things I can control. I want to use sustainable mechanisms that allow me to enjoy and contribute to help meet the team’s objectives,” Rubio reiterated about that new way to see basketball which, with psychological help, he has discovered. “I don’t know if anyone is going to get angry about this,” she clarified, “but basketball is a game. I’ve been in the dark, but by working and with the help of professionals you can get out,” she concluded.
2024-02-26 15:28:24
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