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Munich, Dec 6 (AFP): World Cup winner Lucas Hernandez revealed on Monday how his record-breaking move to Bayern Munich turned into a nightmare with recurring injuries and the threat of a prison sentence in Spain.<\/p>\n
The defender became the most expensive player in Bundesliga history when he joined Bayern from Atletico Madrid in 2019 for \u20ac80 million ($90 million).<\/p>\n
But the 25-year-old said a string of injuries isolated him from his teammates, and he also had to deal with judicial problems in Spain.<\/p>\n
“They weren’t easy years,” Hernandez said in an interview with German magazine Kicker.<\/p>\n
“I was injured for the first year and a half and it was definitely the worst moment of my career.<\/p>\n
“First I missed six months, then I played two months, and then I had four months out again.<\/p>\n
“When you’re not with your teammates every day and you’re alone often, it gets you down. But now that I am with them I feel well integrated into the team.”<\/p>\n
In October, Hernandez appeared before a Madrid court for violating a restraining order in 2017 banning him from contacting his partner after a violent altercation between the pair, who are now married.<\/p>\n
Neither made a complaint against the other but both were charged by Spain’s public prosecutor.<\/p>\n
Hernandez avoided a sentence after the court accepted the French player’s appeal.<\/p>\n
“It was a very difficult time for me when this story came out. My wife was, and she still is, pregnant with our second child. Neither my wife nor I understood why the court opened this procedure against me.<\/p>\n
“It was an incident which went back to 2017, it’s the past, the present is that my wife is pregnant, that I love her and she loves me.”<\/p>\n
However, the defender conceded that the enforced absences strengthened his resolve.<\/p>\n
“Some players when they are injured think about stopping football. For me it was exactly the opposite.<\/p>\n
“The bigger the difficulties, the more I’m motivated to get through and back to work. These moments made me stronger mentally and more mature from a character point of view.”<\/p>\n
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