“Two and a half months have now passed since that injury in China. Two months in which the objective was first and foremost to recover as best as possible to try to return to the pitch healthy, even before performing. Months in which a lot of work was done both on the pitch and with the medical staff. If I hadn’t had extreme certainty – and the Monte Carlo test was proof of this – I would never have entered the platform, running the conscious risk of a probable relapse.” Thus on Instagram Mattia Furlani a few hours after the injury, in the big man’s qualifiers for the European Championships in Birmingham, to the hamstring of his right thigh, the same muscle injured in Xiamen in the Diamond League meeting at the end of May. “Today I felt good, I was strong and evidently my body, at certain intensities, he was not yet ready to return to the speeds I was accustomed to, suffering a relapse -explains the 21-year-old Fiamme Oro athlete, reigning world champion-. In recent months I have probably gone through the worst moments so far: I am experiencing a lack of confidence in myself and my means which lately have only been expanding, seeing the road a little blurry. My season ends here.”