Fulham star hailed as national hero and 'first world footballer' – Overcome doubts to shine again
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Fulham striker Raúl Jiménez's return this season has delighted everyone, with numerous comments and analysis already on the matter so far.
Today it's the turn of ESPN and 'Digital Analyst' Rafa Ramos, who is full of praise for the Fulham star and the manner in which he's battled back from the traumatic head injury he suffered playing for Wolves four years go.
He says Jiménez 'still stands as a first-world footballer' and, four years on from 'still howls over the shadow of his tragedy'.
According to him the Fulham striker has transformed the 'bad omens' from that into 'generous hopes' that have allowed the 'Wolf of Tepeji' to howl louder.
He is flying high at this moment in time and his decision to continue playing football, completely against medical advice, has been richly rewarded.
Ramos says the 33-year-old has 'crossed the fortuitous bridge of the resurrection' in life and on the pitch, conquering a fear of death and finding his love for life strengthened. He 'decided to take risks' when he returned to playing, choosing the 'freshness of a new breath of life' over the 'lascivious kiss of death'.
As a result, he's enjoying his football more than even, starring for Fulham and securing his return to the Mexican national team as well. The latter saw 'stadiums packed with Mexicans' to celebrate that return and the superb display he put on for them in the win over the USA.
In fact, Ramos believes the Fulham star is the one Mexican player who 'sublimates the concept of resilience as a nationalist seal'. In other words, he's now a bit of a Mexican icon.
He may even be the most resilient Mexican footballer of all time, surpassing Hugo Sánchez and the trials he endured at Atlético de Madrid.
That's because the Wolf of Tepeji has overcome his own doubts, his family's doubts and the 'fearful diagnoses' of the doctors to ignore a universe that wanted to paralyse him and instead kept walking.
The shadow of that tragedy has now been 'extinguished' says Ramos and now Jiménez 'howls louder than ever' before.
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