Santiago Canizares has spoken in ‘World Special’ of COPE Sports about your last minute loss for the 2002 Korea and Japan World Championships when he was Spain’s starting goalkeeper.
During the previous concentration that the Spanish team was doing in Jerez, the then starting goalkeeper of Spain suffered a totally surreal mishap that separated him from those chosen to represent Spain in the 2002 World Cup.
MARCA published that shortly before the players met in the hotel dining room for dinner, each of them was in their room. The Valencia goalkeeper was barefoot washing himself when he dropped a bottle of cologne that, In a reflex action, he wanted to control with his right leg. Unfortunately for him, The container burst when it hit his limb and caused a very deep cut. and clean that left his foot without mobility.
Raise your finger, and of course, raise your finger, I just raised my eyebrows
Quickly and given the seriousness of the situation, the National Team doctor, Genaro Borrás, decided that he be transferred to the General Hospital of Jerez.
Once admitted and with the diagnosis of the ruptured tendon, it was decided to operate..
Cañizares explains his accident with a bottle of cologne in 2022: “They said he was involved with the physical trainer”
Obviously the recovery time was going to be longer than what remained before the World Cup began.
Thus, Íker Casillas became the starting goalkeeper of the National Teamfacing his first important appointment with the National Team as the starting goalkeeper and Koke Contreras as a substitute for Cañizares.
Santi Cañizares talks about the accident with the cologne bottle and remembers the “conspiracy theories”
Cañizares explained 24 years later at COPE that “the glass fell on me.”
They said that I was involved with the physical trainer and we escaped through the window
The former footballer 54 years He confirmed that he went to the medical center and, after a brief examination, the doctor realized the severity: “Raise your finger, and of course, raise your finger, I just raised my eyebrows.” His tendon was cut.
José, José, José, calm down, his tendon is broken, we have to operate on him.”
“José, José, José, calm down, his tendon is broken, we have to operate on him,” Cañizares remembers what doctor Genaro Borrás told coach José Antonio Camacho.
Santiago Cañizares remembers that after that incident all kinds of “conspiracy theories” and that the most surprising one was heard in Argentina.
“They said that I was involved with the physical trainer and we escaped through the window,” shared the Radio MARCA collaborator to explain that according to this version, while fleeing, a window fell on his foot.
