Breel Embolo is fighting back from his serious knee injury last summer. The 27-year-old already sees a lot of light at the end of the tunnel.
Embolo can train again and has now made the leap from youth back to the professionals. “It feels so good. It’s becoming more and more normal for me to train properly with the team again,” he says in an interview with “Keystone-SDA”. The attacker or his body is still in a process towards recovery: “Now the improvement should come. The flow of information for the brain becomes greater, all movements become faster. I now have to find the balance. I have to think about all these actually simple things “First of all, get used to it again.”
Embolo has always been the “full throttle guy,” as he describes himself: restraint is not his thing. Neither in training nor in games. That’s why the physios would have to partially slow him down. He no longer has any major problems with his knee. It can withstand the amount of training. There is no swelling or pain. Embolo is already hoping for a squad comeback in the Monegasque league game against Stade Rennes on April 8th: “In the last seven games in the championship it’s about getting a good feeling and scoring a few goals if possible. That’s in in my head. And I only want to have people around me who believe in this goal.”
The European Championship remains a big goal for the Nati striker. In view of the offensive lull that has occurred recently, coach Murat Yakin would be only too happy to rely on a dynamic and in-form Embolo: “I don’t want to waste any more time and get back in touch straight away. Then it’ll be enough for a good European Championship,” predicts the striker. The tournament in Germany is very important for him: “There won’t be too many chances anymore. Maybe it will even be the last of the current generation.”