Martin Braithwaite reveals the difficult that went his infancy

Although nowadays it forms part of one of the best teams of the world, no all has been easy for Martin Braithwaite, the one who from boy suffered of several complications that loom with frustrating his dreams to turn into a professional footballer and arrive to the maximum level.

In an interview for CNN remembered that between the five and the seven years of age saw forced to move in a chair of wheels, something that for then marked him regarding other boys. For then, it suffered the illness Legg-Calvé-Perthes, a disorder to level of the hip that prevented him a full mobilisation of his body.

For then it could not run and less even play to the football: "I do not have a lot of memories of then. Because it is a moment very sad, because you see to the other boys running, playing and laughing. It was a really difficult period of my life. I remember the feeling of shame for being different".

It put it of Braithwaite always was the football

However, a big work by part of the medical body that attended it, as well as his positive attitude to continue struggling in spite of the adversities allowed him go progressing until turning into a sportsman of high level, one put that it always had clear: "Always I wanted to be footballer. Since it was very young did not have at all more in mind. It did not have a plan B".

It was then when his way grieve began, something later that the rest by the time that happened recovering, but now forms part of a prestigious institution like the FC Barcelona, a signing that surprised it to him same: "it Was collecting to my son of a training and while it drove my agent called me and said me that the Barcelona was interested, but wanted to keep a secret it until it did real. In fact, my wife felt that something happened and I hid him the calls. When it went it to him to say, she smiled and said that already it knew it".