VALLADOLID – Former player and coach Eusebio Sacristán is in an induced coma after being operated on this Thursday at the Hospital Clínic de Valladolid to improve the intracranial pressure caused by a clot in the head, as a result of a fall and trauma cranioencephalic, according to health sources.
Eusebio will remain hospitalized pending his evolution, as reported by the Foundation that bears his name in a statement and, by express wish of the family of the former football player and coach, it will be this entity that provide news on your health.
Since the acute complications in this type of trauma derive from the increase of the cranial pressure, the intervention has been carried out so that this pressure lowers and will have to remain intubated and in induced coma until verifying its evolution in the next ones. hours.
Eusebio Sacristán’s family wanted to convey “a sincere thank you” to all the people, media and colleagues in the world of sport who are interested in their state of health.
Eusebio Sacristán Mena trained at Real Valladolid to make his debut in the first team at the age of 19 and, after four years, signed for Atletico Madrid, where he spent a season, to spend the next seven seasons at Barcelona. Johan Cruyff.
After signing for Celta Vigo in the 1995/96 season and playing there for two years, he returned to Real Valladolid, where he was fired as a player in 2002, with 543 games accumulated, making him the third most official player. has played in the history of the League, only behind Zubizarreta and Raúl González.
As a coach, Eusebio has coached Celta de Vigo, the Barcelona subsidiary, Real Sociedad and Girona, of which he was in 2019, without having returned to occupy a bench since then , so he has turned during this time to the Foundation that bears his name and now resides in Valladolid.