'It's a 奇蹟 I'm here': Wolves 星／主役にする Raul Jimenez speaks about horror 長，率いる 傷害 for the first time and 明らかにする／漏らすs the last thing he remembers was 存在 in the dressing room BEFORE 兵器庫 衝突／不一致... but believes he's almost at 十分な 攻撃する again

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'They told me it was like a 奇蹟 to be here.' Raul Jimenez is recounting his doctors' reaction to the moment that left him in mortal danger - the 長，率いる 傷害 during Wolves' game at 兵器庫 on November 29 last year that could have cost him not just his career but his life.

Nobody who saw the 出来事/事件 will ever forget it. Defending a corner いっそう少なく than five minutes into the game, Jimenez 衝突／不一致d 長，率いるs with David Luiz and was soon motionless on the turf. He was taken away in an 救急車 and spent more than a week in hospital, where he had 外科 on a fractured skull.

いっそう少なく than nine months later, Jimenez returned to 首相 League 活動／戦闘, wearing a special headguard as Wolves lost 1-0 at Leicester last Saturday, and he believes he is nearly at 十分な 攻撃する again.?

Raul Jimenez is 支援する from 傷害 and believes he is nearly ready to play at 十分な 攻撃する again

Jimenez had not played in the league since 苦しむing his horrific skull fracture last November

Speaking to UK マスコミ for the first time since the 出来事/事件, Jimenez was remarkably 事柄-of-fact when discussing it and even 明らかにする／漏らすd that he had asked Wolves 医療の team to send him （映画の）フィート数 of it from several different angles.

'I asked for more ビデオs from different areas of the pitch,' he said. 'I feel this is a normal reaction to it. I never get 脅すd about these things.

'いつかs you see ビデオs of a broken ankle or a tibia and you feel it. It wasn't even you but you feel it in your 団体／死体. It's not the same, maybe, with 地雷 because it was shocking, the 衝撃 and then I 攻撃する，衝突する the 床に打ち倒す.

'But it didn't 脅す me. I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to see different 面s, who was 場内取引員／株価, [what would have happened] if I didn't make two 今後 before the corner.. I go to attack the ball from the corner and at the last minute take two steps 今後, so I had to jump backwards.

'These different things all together [与える／捧げるd] to what happened. So I have seen the ビデオs but I don't remember it at all.

Raul Jimenez made his long-を待つd 首相 League return for Wolves against Leicester

'I remember we arrived at the stadium. I left my things in the dressing room and went out to see the pitch. I remember going 支援する to the dressing room with my team-mates and then it was like 'lights off'.

'I can't remember anything else or when I first woke up in the hospital. I can 解任する some things from my time in the hospital but nothing really （疑いを）晴らす. That's why I asked to see what happened because for me, it's like it never happened.

'Really it was a 奇蹟 to be here again. The skull fractured and there was a little bit of bleeding on the brain. It was 押し進めるing my brain to the inside and that is why the 外科 had to be quick. It was a really good 職業 by the doctors and I am 支援する here.'

At some 行う／開催する／段階 of his stay in hospital, Jimenez was able to 安心させる his team-mates on their WhatsApp group that his 操作／手術 as gone 井戸／弁護士席. But that period was 特に difficult for his family.

Jimenez and his partner Daniela Basso had welcomed their first child, daughter Arya, on July 21. Coronavirus 制限s meant the time they could spend with Jimenez while he was under 医療の 観察 was 極端に 限られた／立憲的な.

'It was more difficult for Daniela, there at home and 存在 with the baby, trying to call everyone to find out how I was but 明白に they were at the game,' he said.

Jimenez had hoped to return at the end of last season but was advised it was too soon

Jimenez has been in 接触する with Petr Cech who 支えるd a 類似の 傷害 for Chelsea in 2006

'The doctor told her to come to London and that someone would 選ぶ her up. She went to London but they were not 許すd to visit me, not even for five minutes to see me. They spent two nights in London until she had the 適切な時期 to visit me again. Then I returned home.'

Even in those 早期に days, when the medics could not 保証（人） he would return to 十分な health, Jimenez never 疑問d that he would 再開する his career.?

He was in 正規の／正選手 接触する with former goalkeeper Petr Cech, who 支えるd a 類似の 傷害 while playing for Chelsea at Reading in 2006. Cech even held discussions with Wolves doctors about whether Jimenez could use the 保護の headgear that he wore after that 出来事/事件.

The スローガン 'Nobody Cares. Work Harder' is emblazoned on Jimenez's sweater which, while not 完全に 正確な given the level of support he received from across the game, sums up the 30-year-old's dedication to his 回復.

He is able to life 事実上 a normal life off the field but even now, 警告を与える 勝つ／広く一帯に広がるs. Under new coach Bruno Lage, Jimenez follows strict 限界s on the 量 of 長，率いるing he is 許すd to do in training. He would rather not wear his customised headgear but has been told he must, probably for the 残りの人，物 of his career.

'At the start I was told I could not drink alcohol - but that is 罰金, because I don't even like it, so no problem for me,' he smiled. 'But it was difficult not to be able to come 支援する last season.

Jimenez 解任するs 存在 told by doctors that he was 'lucky' to be here after his 傷害

'In the last month I felt ready to play but the 外科医s said the skull was not fully 傷をいやす／和解させるd. When I heard this it was a shock but 10 minutes later I said '承認する, I need to continue my 回復.

'The first time I 長，率いるd the ball on the 権利 味方する I went with 警告を与える, telling myself to be careful. I was one-on-one with the physio, in pre-season.

'But when I 長，率いるd the ball I realised nothing bad had happened. So when the next one （機の）カム I 長，率いるd it as I have always done. At the moment, the 長，率いるing I do in training has to be 限られた／立憲的な for my own good, but hopefully that will be only for a couple of months.'

Jimenez will play his first competiti ve match at Molineux on Sunday, against Tottenham - now managed by former Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo.

But he has already felt the 評価 of his fellow players during that 敗北・負かす at King 力／強力にする Stadium. He 明らかにする／漏らすd: 'Jamie Vardy, Caglar Soyuncu and James Maddison all approached me during the game to congratulate me on my 復帰.

'They said it was an honour to be playing in my first game 支援する. They were really happy to see me 支援する on the pitch.'

Jimenez and his partner Daniela Basso had welcomed their first child, daughter Arya, in July