An Arsenal Great has shocked fans with an image of his foot during the last phases of his Gunners career that shows the horrible size of the Achilles tendon injury with which he was dealing with.
The Spanish midfielder Santi Cazorla sustained the injury in 2016 and required eight operations when his career was threatened.
He later revealed that he almost lost his foot to Gangrene after running a potentially life -threatening infection.
And Cazorla went to Instagram on Monday to share a photo of his foot while it was infected.
“Don't worry, be happy,” he wrote. “Moments that remind me of the mobile phone, the sun always comes up.”
Cazorla said to Marca at the time: “If you can walk in the garden with your son again, be satisfied, they told me,”
'He [Dr Mikel Sanchez] I saw that I had a huge infection that I had damaged part of the calcaneus bone and had eaten the Achilles tendon. Eight centimeters was missing! '
The condition required antibiotics treatment and a skin transplant, with the skin from Cazorla's left forearm where a tattoo of his daughter's name could be seen.
After 668 days, Cazorla returned from football to the field after 668 days when he returned to Villarreal in 2018.
And he still plays at the age of 40 for the Spanish Second Division Side Oviedo.
Cazorla is one of the most beloved Arsenal players from the Emirates Stadium era that never had the bitter exit that many of the best players of the club have had over the past two decades.
He contributed 29 goals and 44 assists in 180 performances in six years at the Gunners, as a result of which the club won two FA cups.
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