Pete Mickeal: 'Basketball is a second option for me at the moment'
Mickeal will travel to USA in the next two weeks
Pete Mickeal, out for the season due to a blood clot, announced his retirement (at least temporarily) from basketball.
"Basketball is a second option for me at the moment. The most important thing is my health. In the next two weeks I will go to USA to see one of the best doctors in the world for my disease" said Mickeal. "The hardest part of my injury was to call my wife to tell her that I had another blood clot" added the forward. "I will play again, I already told Barcelona that I'd love to wear again their jersey" ended Mickeal.
The American forward of FC Barcelona Regal, Pete Mickael, who was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism a month ago, which appears for the second time in two years, said on Tuesday that: "Today is a sad day, but a good day. I feel more strength than before. most important thing for me right now is not basketball, it recover. want to solve the problems that I have in my blood. In two weeks I will go to the U.S. for a specialist to treat me . I can be there two months, four, six, one year, or forever. "
In a packed press room of the Palau Blaugrana, with his coach, Xavi Pascual and sporting director Joan Creus, and his team-mates, an excited Mickael, which at times could not hold back the tears, acknowledged that basketball is now a "second choice".
Blood must be further diluted
"The most important thing is not basketball. Most important thing is to recover, stay healthy, fix problems with my blood," said the forward, who has praised his coach and the way the club has treated, which has made "open your eyes and mind."
"I have only words of thanks. When you are a basketball player, just think about doing twenty points, as many rebounds, get two-year contract or a good salary. But when you look back, you see that this club is quite different. No other world club like Barca, or the NBA or Europe, "stressed the 35 years.
And he stressed: "As long keeping this desire to play and win, do not leave. I've told Sandro (Rosell), Joan (Creus) and Xavi (Pascual) that if ever I can continue playing basketball, will only this club. well not find another club in the world ".
A little over a month, and after missing a game in Sevilla, Barcelona reported that Mickael had gone to a respiratory problem that two seasons ago and left him out of competition for months.
The Rock Island also wanted to thank all samples received support and especially praised the behavior of the club around this time: "The way the club has treated me excellent. Want to thank everyone for supporting Club" .
While not detailing the name of the specialist who treated him, said it is "the right person": "He has treated players with the same problem and have had long careers in the NBA. But everything depends on the medication. I have to do my blood is as diluted as possible. If you like today, no problem. But it should not be just today, but the rest of my life. "
Thanked Xavi Pascual
Mickael has noted that seek to support the team in this final stretch of the season, but "sometimes it is not possible, because sometimes the medication is controlling you rather than you to it," he said, and has even joked that you can watch grow his son and "fish as long as possible", one of his favorite hobbies.
The forward has surrendered to Easter, which he described as "the best coach in Europe", and later pointed out: "There has been more good times than bad. Sometimes we are angry, the more he with me that I with him, the result the winning spirit. But now I look more like a person than as a coach.'m very happy to have played with him. "
The Barcelona, which has received a long standing ovation from the audience, has missed laughs when asked if he had made history at the club ("Yes!" He answered in one word in Spanish), but could not tears to emphasize the support of your partner and calls received this month from people who had the same disease, something she "really excited".
Pascual: "We must win and dedicate it to him"
The Regal FC Barcelona coach Xavi Pascual, said Tuesday that the team has to win Euroleague or Endesa League this campaign to dedicate these titles to a Pete Mickael that player "irreplaceable" as is.
"I remember the faces to know, was a shock for them, for us, the human part. Pete is an irreplaceable player in any way. Can find other paths to victory, because what gives him unique. Many we're here feel we have to win things an
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