Fernando Morientes has spoken for the first time since he was admitted to hospital by a pulmonary embolism – something that is life -threatening, if not urgently treated
Fernando Morientes has been opened over in the hospital for a pulmonary embolism that almost killed him.
And the FA Cup champion of 2006, which spent 18 months with Liverpool, has now detailed the horrible test. He is currently working as a Liga expert in Spain and told Cope's 'Tiempo de Juego': “I felt sick after so many trips.
“On one of them my breast started to hurt, a stabbing pain under my breastbone. I thought it was something belly related and didn't want to go to the hospital. But that night I felt something and I immediately went to the doctor.
“They started looking at my heart and saw nothing until they found an effusion in the pleura. It was a pulmonary embolism.” According to the NHS, a pulmonary embolism can be life -threatening if it is not treated quickly, so the decision of Morientes to go to the doctor may eventually have saved his life, the Liverpool Echo reports.
He added: “It is a clot that formed in my knee because of the excess air in the plane and in the stationary car. My blood started getting thicker in the air and stood on my lung.
“I spent five days in the hospital, almost dying.” Fortunately for Morientes, he indicated that a complete recovery is possible – although doctors have advised him to “choose his travels more carefully”.
In an attempt to increase consciousness for the condition, Morientes said: “It is important that people who travel several times a week inform these dangers. It is a good idea to wear heparin, and you can travel if necessary.
“If you don't do that, I recommend making better decisions and not always traveling like me.” Liverpool supporters will have good memories of Morientes' £ 6.3 million arrival of Real Madrid in January 2005.
The decorated attacker, with titles, including two LABERA trophies and three champion competitions with the Spanish giants, was welcomed by Club icon Steven Gerrard, who said about the signing: “You know that you are not taking any risk. It is good from a symbolic point of view that we have signed that way.
“I just hope that, after all the success he has had and trophies he won, he is just as hungry to do the same for us.” Although Cup-Tied for the Champions League season 2004/05 that ended with the legendary Istanbul victory of Liverpool, Morientes succeeded in silverware with the team in the form of the FA Cup the following season.
His term of office at Anfield, however, saw him only 12 goals for 18 months, which led to his inevitable departure from the Rafael Benitez team – before he finished his match days with Stints in Valencia and Marseille.
In the following years, Morientes baptized his toes in the world of management and they supervised Huracan and Real Madrid's youth systems, as well as Fuenlabrada. He then switched to Punditry, worked as an expert for Cope and traveled through Spain to cover La Liga.
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