Eric Abidal
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Eric Abidal - An Interview after last year's Liver surgery -
“What did I learn from it all?” he smiles. “To eat. To take better care of my body. Maybe I even learned how to live. I sold my race cars, even my beloved Aston Martin: you can do better things with your money. There are lots of people who have cancer or AIDS who need it, and I try to give my part because I’m a privileged. But I do it quietly. If you give twenty Euro to a beggar on the street, it’s a private affair: between you, him, and God. No one else. Oh, and I have learned not to get too worked up. If my wife is showering me with words and my daughters keep whining at me, it’s okay. Every cloud has a silver lining, there’s something good in everything. What good can there be in cancer, you ask? If it ever happens to me again, I’ll know exactly how to behave. I see things differently now, I’ve matured. Life is full of paths and you have to follow them, accept them, and not complain about it. It’s like getting angry because you screwed up a penalty shot. Pretty stupid, right?”
The first words that come to mind, are Doctor Fuster’s words: I’d just awoken from the anesthesia and he told me “My dear Éric, see you at Wembley. I’m gonna be there, and I know you’re going to be there, too.” I thought he was crazy.”
Eric's Mother -
“Éric, the important thing is that you are a good person, that you pray every day and that you remember that you only answer to God for your choices.” Nothing has changed between them, of course.Abidal : “I don’t know if my religion helped me. I know that to me, faith is an advantage: knowing there’s a place we can go to after death, it helps you keep strong. It’s not a means to fight cancer, but it is a crutch. Death? I hope it’ll come when I’m much older. I had no thoughts to spare on death. To be honest, I didn’t even think I would get to play the end of the season. Not to mention the CL final!”
Abidal on Puyol and Barcelona :
An hour before the game against Manchester United started, he didn’t know yet he was going to play. “Guardiola showed us the last videos, gave some last-minute advice, read out loud the players’ shortlist. No one looked surprised. No one but me, obviously. I sought Puyol out, I walked up to him and asked “Why aren’t you playing? Did you know he was going to leave you out?” He looked me in the eyes and said “I’m not important right now. You are what matters; don’t worry about me.” "Do you have any idea what a fucking badass we have as captain? Do you? Champions League final, they tell him he’ll be warming the bench, and he’s the one comforting me! This is Barcelona. "
And of course I didn’t know I would be the one to lift the cup, everything happened in a blur, I could hardly grasp what was going on. Do you have any idea…? I had cancer, I had surgery, I played the CL final, and I lifted the cup, all in the span of three months. What more could I ask?”
From an outsider’s point of view, it’s hard to tell what’s gluing them all together. There is something in the basic philosophy of the Catalan club, of which Guardiola is a perfect incarnation. “The club, the team, our teammates come before everything else. We earn a lot of money, but we still train with the eagerness we had as kids. I’ve seen so many footballers who become rich and every sentence they utter begins with “I, I, me..”. Well, no one at Barça is like that. We make sure we remind each other this: it’s a game, they’re paying us to do something beautiful, let’s do it seriously but without taking each other too seriously. It’s a fact, some footballers are real snobs. It gets tiresome sometimes. I know, you want me to talk about Mourinho: he’s exasperating, but in his case, it’s all part of the strategy to reach victory. I’ve taken his side more than once in the past: this year though, to be honest, I hardly ever did.
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“What did I learn from it all?” he smiles. “To eat. To take better care of my body. Maybe I even learned how to live. I sold my race cars, even my beloved Aston Martin: you can do better things with your money. There are lots of people who have cancer or AIDS who need it, and I try to give my part because I’m a privileged. But I do it quietly. If you give twenty Euro to a beggar on the street, it’s a private affair: between you, him, and God. No one else. Oh, and I have learned not to get too worked up. If my wife is showering me with words and my daughters keep whining at me, it’s okay. Every cloud has a silver lining, there’s something good in everything. What good can there be in cancer, you ask? If it ever happens to me again, I’ll know exactly how to behave. I see things differently now, I’ve matured. Life is full of paths and you have to follow them, accept them, and not complain about it. It’s like getting angry because you screwed up a penalty shot. Pretty stupid, right?”
The first words that come to mind, are Doctor Fuster’s words: I’d just awoken from the anesthesia and he told me “My dear Éric, see you at Wembley. I’m gonna be there, and I know you’re going to be there, too.” I thought he was crazy.”
Eric's Mother -
“Éric, the important thing is that you are a good person, that you pray every day and that you remember that you only answer to God for your choices.” Nothing has changed between them, of course.Abidal : “I don’t know if my religion helped me. I know that to me, faith is an advantage: knowing there’s a place we can go to after death, it helps you keep strong. It’s not a means to fight cancer, but it is a crutch. Death? I hope it’ll come when I’m much older. I had no thoughts to spare on death. To be honest, I didn’t even think I would get to play the end of the season. Not to mention the CL final!”
Abidal on Puyol and Barcelona :
An hour before the game against Manchester United started, he didn’t know yet he was going to play. “Guardiola showed us the last videos, gave some last-minute advice, read out loud the players’ shortlist. No one looked surprised. No one but me, obviously. I sought Puyol out, I walked up to him and asked “Why aren’t you playing? Did you know he was going to leave you out?” He looked me in the eyes and said “I’m not important right now. You are what matters; don’t worry about me.” "Do you have any idea what a fucking badass we have as captain? Do you? Champions League final, they tell him he’ll be warming the bench, and he’s the one comforting me! This is Barcelona. "
And of course I didn’t know I would be the one to lift the cup, everything happened in a blur, I could hardly grasp what was going on. Do you have any idea…? I had cancer, I had surgery, I played the CL final, and I lifted the cup, all in the span of three months. What more could I ask?”
From an outsider’s point of view, it’s hard to tell what’s gluing them all together. There is something in the basic philosophy of the Catalan club, of which Guardiola is a perfect incarnation. “The club, the team, our teammates come before everything else. We earn a lot of money, but we still train with the eagerness we had as kids. I’ve seen so many footballers who become rich and every sentence they utter begins with “I, I, me..”. Well, no one at Barça is like that. We make sure we remind each other this: it’s a game, they’re paying us to do something beautiful, let’s do it seriously but without taking each other too seriously. It’s a fact, some footballers are real snobs. It gets tiresome sometimes. I know, you want me to talk about Mourinho: he’s exasperating, but in his case, it’s all part of the strategy to reach victory. I’ve taken his side more than once in the past: this year though, to be honest, I hardly ever did.
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How can you show your support to Abidal ? ?
Send an email to oab@fcbarcelona.cat - Showing your support to Abidal.
https://twitter.com/#!/FCBarcelona
https://twitter.com/#!/FCBarcelona_es
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Yugi
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Amb la força q vas demostrar-nos, no dubtem q tornaràs ben aviat i més fort que mai. Una forta abraçada #ànimsAbidal
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Aryagorn
Improvin' Perfection!!
That song is brilliant... Could some body please tell me the name of it? Brilliant compilation and definitely the right choice for the song I guess
La Furia
Legion of Doooom
This is a very dangerous operation. I have faith Abidal will make it through this as a person but as a player I honestly wouldn't hold my breath. His career is likely over.
But anything is possible.
adil_909
New member
yes his career is almost certainly over. it will take nothing short of a miracle for him to play football again.
Aryagorn
Improvin' Perfection!!
tbh I didn't think he'd ever play again the last time!! Him coming back, winning the fuckin' CL in style and all... What a hero 
I guess he's already won back more than that could be dreamt after last year... I'd pray he is healthy again. If he could play again, all well & good I guess
I guess he's already won back more than that could be dreamt after last year... I'd pray he is healthy again. If he could play again, all well & good I guess
adil_909
New member
tbh I didn't think he'd ever play again the last time!! Him coming back, winning the fuckin' CL in style and all... What a hero
I guess he's already won back more than that could be dreamt after last year... I'd pray he is healthy again. If he could play again, all well & good I guess
thats what i mean, the media really made a big deal about abidals circumstances last time but it was not right. that was peanuts compared to what he faces right now. he was always going to recover from that surgery, it was a small resection that required a fairly standard recovery afterwards. but a liver transplant is a whole different kettle of fish. he has to survive the 8-12 hour surgery, then afterwards has to totally suppress his immune system for a few months during which time any infection could basically take his life, then he has to pray the body doesn't reject the organ, and for the rest of his life he has to be on low dose immunosuppression. this is nothing like what he dealt with before. in footballing terms, him returning to football last time was like overcoming a 3 goal deficit at halftime. this is like overcoming a 10 goal deficit with 10 min left in the game....
adil_909
New member
it's a standard incision for a liver transplant, it's a chevron incision. right now it's just held together with staples, as the wound heals the staples come off and then the scar looks a lot cleaner. this pic is within the first few days after the procedure thats why it looks like that. but you can clean it up however you like, even the best transplant surgeon in the world still has to remove the intestines from the abdominal cavity before you can access the vascular supply to the liver to tie off, and that requires a large incision. this is not a joke of a procedure, this is the real deal. abidal needs our prayers!
Pepe Silvia
Active member
Terrible news
La Furia
Legion of Doooom
Pretty accurate...organ transplants are the most dangerous surgeries there is. Liver transplants are thankfully a relatively safe, but we are still talking massive risks.
To put it this way, survival rate for the first year is 80-85%.
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