Video: The moment Courtois was injured and burst into tears

In August 2023, while the real Madrid was preparing to start a new season in the Spanish league, Thibaut Courtoisleading goalkeeper for the ‘merengue’ team, suffered an injury that kept him out of the season with his team.

While the team was training, the Belgian goalkeeper suffered an injury that left him crying, it was later confirmed that he had suffered a rupture of the anterior ligament of the left knee that would not allow him to face the games in front of the Madrid goal.

Months later, while he was recovering, in training with the first team, history seemed to repeat itself. On March 19, he left the training camp in tears. It would later be confirmed that he was a Rupture of the internal meniscus of the right knee.

However, it was not known how the injuries that left him out of most of the season had occurred. Now, Courtois himself published a video on his Instagram of the exact moment in which he suffered an injury during training and burst into tears.

The fragment is part of a documentary about his recovery that will be released soon and which talks about how he returned to the courts after two such complex injuries.

In the trailer, you can also see how all the teammates who were training that day come to his aid after hearing the heartbreaking screams of pain. The testimonies of colleagues such as David Alaba They realize how serious the moment was for the Madrid dressing room. “I had never heard that kind of shouting in training,” says the Austrian.

Courtois’s return to the fields finally took place on May 4 against Cádiz in the league, in which he started and took the goal in 0. The documentary will have the participation of several of his teammates in the team telling how it was. the injury and subsequent recovery of the goalkeeper.