The 27 -year -old defender of the Spezia had been diagnosed in Hodkin’s lymphoma in November 2023: “I wanted to demonstrate that everything has passed and they are the same as before”

A nightmare one year and a half. The Spanish defender of La Spezia, Salv Ferrer, did not play a 550 -day football match: he returned to the field last night at the peak, after The diagnosis of Hodkin’s lymphoma who stopped him in November 2023. “I wanted to return so much that now I don’t even realize. I have dreamed of him twice a week in recent months. I am very happy,” said the 27-year-old Catalan at the end of the challenge won 3-1 with Cosenza.

the run -up

Arrived in 2019 in Spezia, passed in 2023 to the Cypriot of Anorthosis, Salv Ferrer was stopped since November 2023, when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a malignant tumor generated by the B lymphocytes. Ten months later he started running at Follo again, in the Sports Center of La Spezia, which has always been close to him. This season has always been on the bench. “I felt as if not even one day had passed, the feeling was very strange. I wanted to help the team the team, every minute, show that everything has passed and they are the same”. Ferrer thanks the companions: “These months would have been more difficult without my companions. They helped me the most and when I was sick they made everything easier. I owe everything to them, they made the path easier”. Now the hunt for Serie A begins: the Ligurians await the playoffs the winner of the challenge between Catanzaro and Cesena. Ferrer, one of the survivors of the promotion in Serie A, believes it: “There are similarities compared to the spice that won the playoffs in 2020. The playoffs will count their heads and the desire to win”.

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