momo risque sa vue et sa carrière à chaque fois qu'il joue,mais rien ne l'empêchera de
jouer la FA cup final le 13 mai.
momo n'est pas guéri.sa vue est à 80% de sa capacité.il sait qu'elle s'améliore chaque jour mais il sait que lorsqu'un match commence ,il est à 90 mn de sa retraite en tant que joueur .un mauvais choc sur l'oeil de nouveau,et il ne PEUT plus jouer.
lors de son premier match synonyme de retour,il devait porter des lunettes comme edgard davids.mais il ne peut tout simplement pas porter ces lunettes là pour jouer.
il ne veut pas il ne peut pas.
juste après le choc contre beto à benfica,le medecin portuguais lui a dit qu'il ne pourrait plus jamais rejouer.entendre ça à 2& ans fut dur.mais à liverpool on lui a dit qu'il y avait des chances quand même.
le choc a crée de la pression à l'arrière de son oeil et aujourd'hui,on ne sait pas si momo reverra parfaitement un jour.
en periode de prnitemps et d'été,les couleurs vives lui font mal aux yeux.
il vient du mali.il est issu d'une famille où il y a 15 enfants.son père et sa mère ont travaillé dur pour leurs enfants et lui met autant d'ardeur au travail.
son frêrre ibrahim est observé de prêt par WBA.
momo ne veut plus parler de son oeil,il veut mettre tout ça derrière lui et se battre pour l'avenir.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2093-2168405,00.htmlEye for danger
JONATHAN NORTHCROFT
Liverpool’s Mohamed Sissoko risks his sight and his career every time he plays, but nothing will stop him facing West Ham in Saturday’s FA Cup final
Footballers are supposed to take each game as it comes and play every one as if it’s their last. It would be melodramatic to say Mohamed Sissoko frets that he could be 90 minutes from retirement whenever he steps onto a pitch, but at the very back of his mind, in the place people put things they would rather not consider, a little thought is there.
In February, Sissoko took a boot in the right eye from Benfica’s Beto, which left him temporary blind and with damage that continues to affect his vision. Another blow in the same place could finish his career.
Sissoko is supposed to wear goggle-like sports glasses when he plays in order to protect his vulnerable eye, but he chooses not to. He tried the specs in his comeback match, against Birmingham City on March 21, and in his next game, against Everton, but on both occasions discarded them.
“The glasses were steaming up for the first 10 minutes I wore them, so I took them off,” he says. Now, despite advice that he should have used the glasses for six months after returning, he plays without any protection. “I was taking a risk and I’m still taking a risk, but if you try something and it just doesn’t work, what can you do?” he asks. “I just can’t physically play in the glasses. That’s all there is to it. I want to play and I can’t play wearing them, so this is what I have to do.
“Our doctor spoke to the Spurs doctor about Edgar Davids and his glasses and we’ve tried ones like his and different types, styles and makes, but I can’t manage with them. I can’t be doing with them. I haven’t spoken too much about the consequences of what might happen if I get kicked in the eye again. The doctors have just told me to take care and try not to get a knock.”
Given that Sissoko could lose not only his livelihood, but the sight in the afflicted eye should the worst occur, you might ask why he feels the risk is necessary. But then watch him play. Pounding the grass as if in permanent pursuit of a mugger making off with his wallet, Sissoko does not halt from first whistle to last. Energy is expended; hunger, a deep, gut-gnawing, visceral hunger, is exuded.
His parents emigrated to France from Mali to find a better life — Mohamed, his father, working long hours in a factory, Fatou, his mother, doing similar as a cleaner, and Sissoko seems to have inherited their determination.
He is focused on the better life, on giving everything, and you sense that he doesn’t want to waste a minute in this career of his. A chance of injury? So be it.
When we spoke, Sissoko was nursing a small knock on his ankle (no serious damage, just bruising from a kick), which may keep him out of Liverpool’s final league game of the season at Portsmouth today. But, grinned Rafael Benitez, “he will be okay” for the FA Cup final on Saturday. Well Benitez might smile. In Liverpool’s semi-final victory over Chelsea, and in their defeat of Manchester United in the fifth round, Sissoko’s sweat went a long way towards establishing superiority in the key central midfield area against the Premiership’s top two sides, and West Ham, especially with Hayden Mullins suspended, face a hounding. It is Sissoko’s second big final under Benitez; his first was as a 19-year-old, when he helped Valencia win the Uefa Cup against Marseille in 2004.
“I played for seven minutes as a substitute,” Sissoko says. “I hope to play all the game in Cardiff and, why not, get a goal. I haven’t scored for Liverpool so far, so why not save the first time for the FA Cup final?” One thing he is happy about is the generous allocation of 24 complimentary tickets per player. Sissoko is one of 15 siblings (he thinks he is “about number eight”) including a younger brother, Ibrahim, who is on the books at West Bromwich Albion, and “all the tickets have gone to my family”. He needed their support during the uncertain, frightening days following his eye injury. Rushed to a hospital in Lisbon after his collision with Beto (the Brazilian was booked for dangerous play, but the contact was accidental), Sissoko was initially told by a Portuguese doctor that he would never play again. “To hear that at 21 was an unspeakable blow, a terrible thing, but from the moment that I heard those words I started the fight to get back,” Sissoko says. “That fight still goes on.”
The opinion of Mark Waller, the Anfield club doctor, was more positive and when Sissoko returned to Merseyside and was treated the following day by specialists from the St Paul’s eye unit in the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, the news was much better. He would recover, but the road would be hard. Beto’s boot caused a laceration in his eyelid and, more seriously, created pressure at the back of his eye. For 36 hours following the impact, when doctors shone a torch into the eye from an inch away, Sissoko couldn’t see it. Even now, there is no certainty his vision will ever be perfect.
“The eye is better every day. It is not 100%, maybe 80%,” he says. “The summertime makes it a little painful, but it is not sore. I can see almost on a daily basis the improvement and the doctor reassures me. If you compare it with how it was at the beginning, it’s certainly better. I hope there will be no permanent damage.”
He has been trying out some new eye-wear with greater success, so far, than he had with the goggles. “I play with contact lenses in training. They don’t protect the eye, but they are good for seeing the ball. With them in, my vision is perfect and the first time I wear them in a game will hopefully be against Portsmouth,” he says.
“When I was able to play again, the first time I headed the ball it was difficult mentally, but by building up gradually in training and by doing more head-work and increasing the physical contact that comes as part of normal training sessions, your confidence grows and the fear goes away. I don’t feel anything like that now. At the time I was very concerned, but with the support of everyone, all my loved ones, people at the club and the manager, I’ve got through it. The amazing thing that helped me close the book on the whole episode and put it behind me is that I came back a lot quicker than I thought and that has given me a huge lift.”
Sissoko’s English is reasonable but he prefers the reassurance, during interviews, of having an interpreter and he uses a French idiom to express his desire regarding his eye. He wants to tourner la page — turn over a new leaf — put the injury behind him and not have to talk about it again. The FA Cup final offers a neat full stop. Sissoko’s return against Birmingham came in the quarter-final of the competition after all. It couldn’t have gone better, he lasted the full 90 minutes and Liverpool won 7-0.
“Before the match I had a quiet moment. I was asking myself a lot of questions. ‘Will I be the same player? Will my vision be affected? Will I be able to see enough to play? If I get a knock, will it be worse?’ But as soon as the game started, everything else went out of my head and the Liverpool fans gave me such a huge welcome that it helped take the fear away.”
Sissoko is as popular among the staff at his club as he is with its support. Jamie Carragher suggests him as a candidate for Liverpool’s player of the year and colleagues appear to recognise that, although technical aspects of Sissoko’s game need refining — close control especially — if he does not become a very top player it will not be for the want of trying. Benitez loves him, arguing that Sissoko should have been a candidate for the PFA Young Player of the Year award and suggesting: “He could be better than (Patrick) Vieira. I don’t want to put him under any pressure here, but I think he can be because he runs a lot further than Vieira.”
Sissoko has grown familiar with a tag that has been pinned on more than one emerging African midfielder. “It’s touching that the manager should speak in such glowing terms about me and it’s a big thing to compare me to Vieira. I’m only 21 and making progress, but I feel I must work hard because I have a lot to learn,” he says.
Benitez’s belief in Momo, as he is nicknamed, was reflected in the £5.6m he spent to sign the player for a second time, having already taken him to Valencia from Auxerre.
Sissoko blushes when it is brought up that he almost joined Everton (“my agents were in advanced negotiations,” he admits) and reveals that several Premiership clubs were chasing him before he got the Anfield call.
His energy levels were always going to give him a chance of succeeding in England. “I have been lucky to settle in quickly and it surprised me it happened so fast,” he says. “But I’ve had help from my teammates and I did watch a lot of Premiership football before I came here so I was almost prepared.”
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