Wolverhampton Wanderers striker Raul Jimenez played his first game since fracturing his skull in November, featuring in a 1-0 pre-season friendly defeat by third-tier Crewe Alexandra on Saturday.
Eight months of hard work and rehabilitation have led to this moment.
We're all proud of you, @Raul_Jimenez9, and so pleased to see you back out there.
Un amistoso de pretemporada, en general, no es muy relevante en la vida de un futbolista. Para Raúl Jiménez, sin embargo, el duelo entre el Wolverhampton y el Crewe Alexandra traía un significado ultra especial: era la primera vez que el mexicano tenía la opción de entrar en un campo de fútbol, de manera competitiva, después de la fractura de cráneo que sufrió en el ya lejano noviembre de 2020.
Jiménez llegó al Gresty Road con estilo, ocultando un poco la ansiedad que seguro sentía detrás de unos aviadores oscuros.
New kit season is among us with a bunch of soccer clubs updating and altering their 2021/22 home and away kits. It's one of the most exciting times as fans eagerly wait to see if their club will be dressed to the 9’s or who will be left looking silly on the pitch.
Starting with the best new kits, continuing with the worst, and ending with one's I just couldn't place. Here we take a look through the new home kits that have been recently released.
La fractura de cráneo que sufrió en noviembre de 2020, poco a poco va quedando atrás en la vida de Raúl Jiménez. El delantero mexicano se entrena de manera normal en el Wolverhampton de cara al inicio de la temporada 2021/22 de la Premier League, fijado para el próximo 14 de agosto. Su primer partido, sin embargo, podría suceder este sábado 17 de julio, en un amistoso ante el Crewe Alexandra de la League One, tercera división en la pirámide del fútbol inglés, a las 10:00 a.m. EDT.
The build-up to every major international tournament is the same: who has the best striker? Or, this is why x midfielder is going to dominate or why this winger is the key to this country getting out of its group.
But no one ever talks about the goalkeepers. In such a short tournament, where three matches decide a team's fate, the importance of the goalkeeper becomes magnified.
So let's give the goalkeepers the spotlight for a little bit, because often they're the ones that end up deciding the tournament.
Raúl Jiménez ya no tiene que mirar al techo o a las paredes para buscar una voz que lo guíe. Wolverhampton anunció hoy al sucesor de Espírito Santo, Nuno Espírito Santo. Se trata del técnico Bruno Lage, quien -¡oh, sorpresa!- también es portugués.
¿No te suena? Bueno, fui un rato a googlear para que tú no tuvieras que hacerlo.
Nombre completo: Bruno Miguel Silva do Nascimento.
Edad: 45 años (12 de mayo de 1976).
Lugar de nacimiento: Setúbal, Portugal.
On Tuesday, England's 33-man preliminary squad was reduced to its final 26 members for the upcoming Euro 2020 tournament.
The likes of Jesse Lingard, James Ward-Prowse and Ollie Watkins were cut, while Manchester United's Mason Greenwood withdrew due to injury:
England's final 26-man squad, with the following seven missing out...
Aaron Ramsdale
Ben White
Ben Godfrey
James Ward-Prowse
Jesse Lingard
Ollie Watkins
Mason GreenwoodCorrect decisions?
WOLVERHAMPTON — Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Nuno Espirito Santo is to leave at the end of the season, the club said on Friday.
The 47-year-old has been in charge since 2017, guiding Wolves back to the Premier League in his first season at the helm and then enjoyed consecutive seventh-placed finishes.
TAKE A BOW, NUNO
Raúl Jiménez recibió una tremenda noticia este miércoles. El cuerpo médico del Wolverhampton anunció públicamente que la fractura de cráneo que sufrió el 29 de noviembre de 2020, en un duelo ante Arsenal, “ha sanado completamente”. En términos concretos, esto significa que el delantero mexicano ya puede volver a entrenarse al ciento por ciento e incluso cabecear balones.
Every Premier League fan has those few players they believe should be banished from the league, whether it be a starter on their team that regularly makes costly errors, or the bench player who has as many first team appearances as loan spells.
When it comes to evaluating the worst players of the Premier League, one soon realizes there is a problematic paradox that arises. I refer to it as the mediocrity paradox: