Borussia Dortmund defender Marc Bartra earlier today send out an emotional social media message via his Instagram handle following the attack on the BVB team bus on Tuesday evening ahead his clubs UEFA Champions League quarterfinal first leg against AS Monaco in which Bartra had been seriously injured on his hand and arm.
Today I returned to receive in the hospital the visit that makes me happier. They are my everything, the reason I struggle to overcome obstacles and this has been the worst of my life, an experience I would not want anyone in this world.
The pain, the panic and the uncertainty of not knowing what was going on, or how long it would last… were the longest and hardest 15 minutes of my life.
To all this I want to say that I think that the shock of these days is decreasing more and more and at the same time they add the desire to live, to fight, to work, to laugh, to cry, to feel, to love, to believe, to play, to train, to continue to enjoy my people, loved ones, companions, my passion, to defend, to smell the lawn as I do before the game starts and motivate me. To see the stands full of people who love our profession, good people who just want us to make them feel emotions to forget the world and especially this world we live in, increasingly crazy.
The only thing I ask, THE ONLY ONE, is for us to live EVERYONE in peace and to leave behind the wars.
These days when I look at my wrist, swollen and badly wounded, you know what I feel? Pride. I look at my team proudly, thinking that all the damage they wanted to do to us on Tuesday stayed in this.
Thanks to the doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and people who help me recover and that the recovery is perfect. To the thousands and thousands of people, media, organizations of all kinds, the BVB and colleagues, who have given me your support and affection. As small as it may be, it has filled me incredibly with the strength to continue on and on.
I needed to write and unburden myself and to settle everything so I just think about getting 100% as soon as possible! A very big greeting!