Raul Jimenez’s profession is one among outstanding expertise and even greater dedication, coming back from the brink of a career-ending damage to search out his toes as soon as extra as a aim scorer.
The Mexico worldwide, who made his identify within the Premier League at Wolverhampton Wanderers, was extensively considered one of the vital feared strikers within the nation previous to an damage which threatened to go away him paralysed.
His eventual return to motion has been touted as an inspiration for compatriot Santiago Gimenez, who attributed a part of his latest success to the willpower of the Fulham striker.
“I like Raul”: In-form striker praises Fulham man
Gimenez himself is now extensively considered Mexico’s finest striker, having risen to prominence with Feyenoord in recent times.
The 23-year-old scored 23 Eredivisie targets final season, prompting rumours of a transfer to the Premier League, with Nottingham Forest reportedly near securing his signature earlier than a transfer finally collapsed.
Talking to Mexican outlet Tudn in his native Spanish (with these quotes translated), Gimenez labelled his senior compatriot an inspiration.
“Raul [Jimenez] evokes one thing highly effective in me: not as a result of he scored the targets, however due to how he got here out of that damage he had,” referring to a fractured cranium he suffered in 2020, which severely affected him on and off the sector.
“When every little thing was falling aside, he may have stop soccer, his life was in peril after which he got here again, then he had issues with damage, these are the examples that make me admire somebody.
“I like Raul first as an individual after which as a footballer, however the current he has given me loads of happiness. He has come out of very painful circumstances, at the moment you see him and he’s shining. He’s a transparent instance to observe.”
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Jimenez’s finest season got here at Wolves in 2019/20, grabbing 17 Premier League targets because the West Midlands outfit secured a European spot earlier than the conflict of heads with Arsenal‘s David Luiz left the participant on the point of retirement.
After a protracted and tough street again, the protecting headband-clad striker lastly seems to be again to close his finest, netting 4 targets within the opening 9 league video games this season as Fulham push for a formidable top-half end underneath Marco Silva – who ranked at no.34 in FourFourTwo’s record of the most effective managers on the earth proper now.