“Personally it was a bomb” – Player’s wife on traumatic Wolves experience

Raúl Jimenez’s wife, Daniel Basso, has detailed the immediate impact of the Fulham star’s head injury while playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

El Diario cover comments from Basso today, made during an interview with FOX Sports, and how it was like a bomb had hit their family.

Jimenez is currently back to his best and shining for Fulham at the beginning of this season, with five goals and one assist in ten games to date.

He’s also made a glorious return to the Mexican national team, bagging a goal and an assist in the recent 2-0 win over the USA after not featuring for his country for nearly a year.

It’s a return to the spotlight for the Fulham striker, who has struggled to recapture his best form since suffering a skull fracture while playing for Wolves in November 2020.

That saw him spend over a year on the sidelines recovering, with doctors telling him at the time that it was a miracle he had survived the injury and even suggesting he was not likely to return to football.

Instead, he is now back to his best and everyone is enjoying it, including his wife, who had to live through the trauma of that head injury also.

“I was at home, I had just finished bathing my baby and I hadn’t seen the first two or three minutes of the game and that was it, I finished bathing her, I was breastfeeding her, I turned on the TV and it happened,” she explained.

“There are these moments in which ‘what is happening?  I didn’t understand or I did understand, the commentators in English didn’t pause it immediately, so they started like ‘Raúl is…’, it wasn’t the word dead, but it was ‘Raúl is in very bad shape’ and then they paused the comments.

“It all happened very fast, I didn’t even cry, it’s like you have to react to what’s happening first, take the baby to the hospital in London at 11pm and the hardest thing for me was when they spoke to me in the car and it was ‘we’re going to operate on him’ and I said ‘wait, with whose permission?’ And no, ‘with no one’s permission, we operate on him or him dies’.

“Personally, it was a bomb, in fact for me it was the most complex moment of my life, but also the one that made me grow the most, because I had to be there for him, of course, for my daughter, for the people, for the family, for the press.

“Becoming a bit of a head of the family and solving this, apart from everything else, that is difficult emotionally and dealing with what is happening, yes it was a shock.”