By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Pablo Laso is healthy and eager to return to the benches, even in Real Madrid if he is called. In a lengthy interview with the Spanish newspaper “Marca“, Laso explained his health condition and spoke about his possible return to action.
On June 5, Laso suffered a cardiac event and he was discharged from the hospital two days later. On June 7, Real Madrid announced that he was dispensing with his services for “solely and exclusively medical reasons”.
As he said: “Obviously when the ‘heart attack’ in quotes happens to me, there’s always something inside of you that says ‘for me the most important thing is personal health’. In this sense, the team doctor, Miguel Angel Lopez, and the doctors who treated me at Sanitas hospital and performed the catheterization fantastically. As far as the story went, I was discharged 48 hours later and three days later I was training the team. I am happy to have this medical document. When time passes you always have a little feeling of whether it is true that I am fine, but this is normal in anyone who has gone through this episode. I was even very shocked by the reactions of the doctors who treated me. ‘You are better than before’ they told me and even ‘there are people worse than you and they fly planes'”.
It seems that the biggest shock for him was his dismissal from Real Madrid: “When they called me to the office and they told me that I’m not going to coach Real Madrid again, I was a bit shocked because I didn’t understand why”.
Still, his love for the club is unconditional: “Real Madrid has given me a lot, probably much more than I have given Real Madrid. If president Florentino Perez called me one day to return to Real Madrid, I couldn’t say no. My relationship with him all these years has been magnificent and if one day he called me and I was free it would be very difficult, if not impossible, for me to say no. Regardless of the fact that if that moment arrives, I’m still training elsewhere”.