Euro 2024, Spain: incredible revelation about Unai Simon

Unai Simon played Euro 2024 despite an injury

From Spain comes a sensational revelation about Unai Simon, the starting goalkeeper of Spain's European champions: the 27-year-old Basque played all the matches of the continental review despite a wrist injury, which necessitated surgery and, now, will force him into a long rehabilitation.

This was confirmed by Dr. Francisco del Piñal, a specialist in hand and wrist surgery and microsurgery, who operated on Unai Simon at La Luz University Hospital in Madrid. The goalkeeper, as reported by the surgeon to the Spanish portal 'Marca', "played the European Championships despite the rupture of the ligament between the scaphoid and the semilunar bone".

The recovery time is long: unai Simon could even be forced to return in January 2025, thus skipping all the summer training as well as the first half of the season with his Athletic Bilbao, the club in which he completed his youth and made his debut in La Liga, after spells at Baskonia in the Tercera Division and at Athletic B in the Segunda Division.

Unai Simon played six of the seven matches played by Spain at Euro 2020, remaining on the bench only in the group stage match against Albania, in which coach De la Fuente, on the strength of the first place already arithmetically obtained, had operated an extensive turnover, deploying David Raya in goal.