The physical problems of Iñigo Martínez are already worrying Barça

When the FC Barcelona fichó to Iñigo Martínez, knew that the Basque defender did not arrive to tope physically. The one of Ondarroa was low in good part of the second half of the 2022/23 product of two injuries that kept him almost three months went. Although it arrived with the 'ok' of the medical body of the Barça, the recovery of the fascitis that suffered the past season has been slower of the expected and, to these heights, the date of his première is totally uncertain.

In this sense, the technical body culé already begins to concern by the physicist of the international Spanish. "The subject of the fascia is not like a break. Here you are a month or two unemployed person and afterwards go back. I notice improvement and already do something in the alone field. I carry a year like this, but go improving", explained the central in his presentation. The club has carried him with caution, but hardly the one of Ondarroa will be smart to play in brief.

The date that the Barça contemplates for the debut of Iñigo

Although there is not an exact date so that Iñigo go back to play, the Barcelona medical body esteem that, for beginnings of September, the defender would have to be in conditions to return to the action. The fabric of the right foot of the central has worn out a lot and, by the factor age, the recovery is used to to be slower. With 32 years, Martínez comes to contest only 18 parties in his last season with the Athletic of Bilbao.

The physical problems of the defender began the summer happened with an injury in the knee. In January, a calcareous spur kept him almost two months was and, in April, another problem in the thigh (calf jalado) left him out of the last month of the season. Before arriving to the Barça, Martínez subjected to a fast intervention in the right foot, but the problems planted reappeared in the first week of pre-season.

The parties that, in principle, will lose Iñigo

After not seeing action in turns it American of pre-season, the Basque neither will be of the game the Tuesday in the Trophy Joan Gamper in front of the Tottenham. By League, is almost sure that Iñigo will be drop for the first three days (in front of Getafe, Cádiz and Villarreal). Besides, the one of Ondarroa neither would have the high doctor for the crash in Pamplona in front of the Osasuna, with which his première postergaría until the day 5 in front of the Betis, around the middle of September. Luckily for the player, in half there will be a stop of selections.