Ceballos reveals he was 20 MINUTES from not being able to play again

Real Madrid midfielder Dani Ceballos has revealed the full extent of the injury his sustained at last summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo. 

Ceballos, formerly on loan at Arsenal from Real Madrid, said that the fractured talus he sustained in Sapporo and subsequent misdiagnosis that allowed him to play only three weeks later nearly saw his career prematurely ended. 

The Spaniard said that after a short spell on the sidelines at the tournament believing he was building himself back up to full strength, he tried to for Spain's Olympics gold medal match with Brazil.

Naturally, he lost his fitness race to be ready for that game and it turned out to be a blessing in disguise with Ceballos revealing that he was only 20 more minutes of action away from never being able to play again. 

He told Marca: It has been the worst five months of my life. My ankle did not respond to me.'

'I tried to play the final with a bad medical report where they told me that I had an injury of 2-3 weeks where only the ligament was affected,' he added.

'Well, no. When I arrived in Madrid it turned out that I had a fracture of the talus, a bone that supports a great deal of body weight.'

The talus sits beneath the heel bone and the two bones in the lower leg, the tibia and fibula.  

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