Govea’s celebration with physio

Thursday, 4 March 2021, 19:40
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For a player when they come back from an injury lay off then you can often sense their relief that a period of hard work and recuperation is over and they are back doing what they want to do and that is play football.

But when that absence has been close to two years as it had been for Jordi Govea when he came off the bench for the Under-23’s against Millwall then you know the relief can be overcoming.

And, as head of academy Jon Grey said, Govea was in tears at the end of the game after a perfect comeback saw him not just take his place on the pitch but he scored within nine minutes of getting onto the pitch to help the team to a 2-0 win in their league encounter.

Govea’s team-mates were quick to run to celebrate with the player but he was heading for the bench and an embrace with head physiotherapist Bethany Chaddock who had done so much work to help him with his comeback from a series of injuries that had sidelined him since April 2019.

โ€œIt was really pleasing; weโ€™re all delighted for him,โ€ said Grey.

โ€œHeโ€™s a cracking lad and really has been through the mill with injuries; heโ€™s been so unlucky.

โ€œHe was in tears at the end after coming back and getting some minutes under his belt.

โ€œWeโ€™ve got to be careful with him after being out for so long.

โ€œAlthough heโ€™s a defender, we introduced him on the left wing for a bit of protection and to ease him back in. But Jordi being Jordi, he wanted to run forward and follow the rebound in from Danโ€™s shot.

โ€œAll the players chased him to the corner flag and went to jump on him, but he pushed them all off and ran straight to Beth and gave her a big hug.

โ€œYouโ€™ve got to give Beth and the other physios lots of credit; theyโ€™ve worked their socks off with him.

โ€œTo get him back on the pitch and doing what he loves doing, it was a really proud moment for everyone involved.โ€

Images courtesy of Getty Images, Athena Picture Agency and Swansea City Football Club.

Phil Sumbler

Been watching the Swans since the very late 1970s and running the Planet Swans website (in all its current and previous guises since the summer of 2001 As it stood JackArmy.net was right at the forefront of some of the activity against Tony Petty back in 2001, breaking many of the stories of the day as fans stood against the actions where the local media failed. Was involved with the Swans Supporters Trust from 2005, for the large part as Chairman before standing down in the summer of 2020.

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