KEVIN DE BRUYNE | RETURN OF THE KING | Documentary

[Applause] the major talking point in tonight's lineup is a first start since August for Kevin De bruyne remember it was on the opening day against Burnley when his hamstring betrayed him got to give a mention to kdb pep spoke in the press conference about whether you know he would start there was that question the cliche all the time new signing but he will feel like that it will do and and also for for Kevin that he'll have the wisdom now of missing six Mon and know how much he loves football and to have a fit and fire and Kevin De bruy a fresh for the last four and a half months of the season it's going to be quite scary for let's go let's go come on there's a problem down there for Kevin De bruyne 3 to four months how big a loss is that will Kevin De bruyne ever be fck again Kevin is so important when he be back he will be back looking to sh oh he's scored Kevin De bruyer is back the king is back that's what it is so Kev what have you been up to for the last five months been everywhere don't I let me get this right when did you first feel that something maybe wasn't right last season with you Bayern away that was the first time I actually felt something my hamstring well obviously we we took a scan and we were like okay there's a little tear and there but you know I didn't feel too bad where I say I can't play so obviously if I felt I was able to perform at the level that I need to perform I wanted to be available Kev has had issues obviously at the back end of last year but proceeding that so I mean it's like these things always are is a combined approach in terms of like obviously getting getting a diagnosis a scan understanding what we're dealing with and then coming up with a plan to allow him to do as much as possible I don't think I actually train that much or I train by myself it depending on how I felt we just managed in a way you know didn't play a game then I played two games kev's the one that's going out and training and playing so certainly a lot of that was led because of kev's approach and kev's understanding of his own body in terms of what he can deal with and how he needs to sort of manage to you know really get out there and perform to the level that he's capable of that's to Quality from Kevin De bruer the Belgian scores against Arsenal Kevin De bruer one of the biggest goals of the season I had a really good end to the season so honestly I did I made the right decision and you know I helped the team uh be where they needed to be and I made a decision at the point and I go with the decision and we we found a way to to perform so the stage is set inside the Aton Stadium the supporters here from Manchester City and from Internationale of Milan there's a problem down there for Kevin De bruy and this is a big concern for Manchester City and Pep Guardiola obviously it's not nice to get injured in the final obviously because it's the second time that it happened was a collision here involving Antonio rudiger and Kevin De bruyne you see the devastation on his [Applause] face that game had you know so much riding on it I think so much emotion for everybody you know you spend a lot of time with the players and of course whenever they hit a setback you feel that a little bit with them as well from you know on a person level so initially it's always more concerned about the player than than the occasion can't get to the lose one it's a goal Ki it is City winning the Champions League pinchman p in a way I was proud about what I accomplished in the last months with everything injury wise and personal wise there was a lot of things happening figh with we did it go no happened Hey Kevin they had to do it without you tonight didn't they yeah it's been a hard two months for me you know I've got a lot of issues with my hamstring and it's a shame because I felt really good in the first half an hour and I thought I was doing well but we won so that's it now it's time to celebrate people may be going to give me Sak for that final but what can I do I did everything that I needed to do in two months and then maybe the week that I've actually felt the best in like seven eight weeks it pops and there's nothing I can do about it you know and we won everything and I think I played a big part into that so um you know I'm just proud of of what I did and the decision that I took welcome back welcome back I've already been here two hours where have you been late once we knew Kev was okay then it's always about right well kind of you've won that what's next now we need to know leading into sort of pre-season and then August leading into the season like we need Kev back and and firing and that becomes the thought process then the whole sum I'm trying to work hard and obviously you enjoy your but every day you're working to get ready back in the season and I wasn't mentally ready to to do that and I was tired you know we tried to support him through that period and you've got to find that balance of of rest and recuperation versus training The Lads did so much and and pushed so hard last season to achieve something that was incredible really that that it takes a physical toll and it takes just a an emotional and psychological toll so we knew building into the tour obviously he was just about understanding where he was and you know really maximizing that kind of like initial recovery and he did everything as always that he was asked to do and and and very well and was again looking like he was in a really good place I was in a good place you know I was training really hard everything was fine and it's not nice training by yourself but in a way there's nothing else you can do [Music] [Applause] it's the opening night of the new 2023 24 premier league campaign it's the champions of the championship against last season's triple winners it's Burnley against Manchester City I actually came back in a in a good way I came back pretty fit you I've been training for 3 weeks weeks uh everything was fine scans were fine measurements test everything was okay 75 days since the last day of last season we are ready to do it all again obviously I think I started the G the game pretty well we we scored pretty quick and you know I did good then obviously I did the movement then you know I put my hamstring again Now Kevin De who has been nursing a hamstring problem through the summer it's just not what Manchester City fans wanted to see turn attention straight to Kevin De brne he goes off injured in the first the thing is maer it's it's very easy to be wise after the event he knows his body and if he didn't feel ready he would have said so short talk about the fact that he could be out for a few moments he's talk about the fact that it could be the start of the decline for our sweet Belgium Prince I was very frustrated and I just wanted to go back back inside you know because obviously I worked so hard during the summer to get back in time how is Kevin De bruyne limed off early in the game yeah unfortunately he's injured again and that is a a problem uh in the same position I think he said to me now we lost him for a for a time so we have to reflect and talk with the doctor offici what happened with him because he was feeling really good he was playing really good in the first minutes so unfortunately he's injured again some of the these things are unavoidable it's never one thing that you can sort of point to and say that's that's the key that's what kind of caused an injury and it I don't think it is that like I said when you push it these things do happen and it's you know they're always trying to come back quickly like and that is the nature of Elite Sport you do reflect and you do look at things and and you know you want to do the best for the player and you you know you don't want that to happen I didn't feel like it was that bad I felt a PO but I can walk and then obviously the day after I came in and I was like I've got a problem here you know I can't really walk and I've never had that so when I got the verdict I need surgery it was obviously not nice to he Kevin De bruy being out for 4 months maybe even longer it's a big big blow not least to city but of course for de bryne himself well play no we just going beit J or anything mons months yeah yeah probably like December something basically I'm a 32-year-old football player who's been playing 15 years almost 700 games sometime goes too hard had a couple of hamstring injuries and now basically my my hamstring was a wet paper towel that's what they called it after surgery yeah I don't know it's like a if in a direct translation they would say a wet paper towel you know I had because of the the injuries that I had had so many scarring so that was the issue that the whole hamstring was just getting really weak and then obviously the tendon was was ruptured and you know they they did what they needed to do clean it out and it was the best decision yeah in this documentary what is Kevin doing oh he's moving is to left and right through any of real process we have milestones we have exit criteria we want to see you kind of walk before you run want to see you do all these things in a stepwise progression and it's kind of reverse engineering like we know where we want Kev to be at the end if anything we aim higher than he was and then we work backwards so right to get to this point to go into training where do we need him to be on Pitch how much time do we need to allow him to adapt and to do the different mov that we need in order to get the confidence and the repetition that he can go into training and then it's kind of going right okay well this is a football so it's now for Kev what other things can we do to help him along this process from nutrition to kind of player Ops to you know Sports Science to Medical to physios you know everybody was aware of the plan and had ability to contribute so we could give Kev the best support possible I don't think people necessarily understand when you're playing every three days there's just no time to work on a lot of things because you're just going from playing to recovery to playing to recovery and you know I've been doing this for 14 15 years straight and then especially last 10 years I've been playing European cups national team you know what happened when I was here 25 I played 76 games that year 76 World Cup we play until third and fourth place there we go and then here we win almost every trophy so I've always never had the time to either rest or work on some things that I probably needed to work on you know obviously I knew I was going to be out for about 5 months so I actually had some time to do that in yes [Applause] okay day 147 we're getting there it's a tough one cuz when a player is injured it's not where they want to be like it tends to be kind of professionally the lowest point that they're going to be at you know it takes a degree of adjustment we try and keep them on a fairly kind of consistent program which helps from like a just a rehab and a training perspective and that we can understand when we need to train and when we need to recover and when we're going to fit all the different components of that in into kev's week but I think you know to just have that ability to be a little bit flexible and to you know occasionally drop the kids off at school or pick the kids up and and not miss birthdays and family gatherings and meals like that should be something that you you maximize when you can if I wanted to plan a weekend with the family or go to Belgium or see my friends I was a able to plan that in advance where you know obviously normally that it doesn't work out does it like there's no chance and um in a way it was nice to do some normal stuff and just have fun outside of football you big at one fan I'm a big at one fan yeah I enjoy it so this is great to be any way I enjoyed it because there's things that I've never done in 15 years and um all these little trips that I've done always fell in a period where it was time for me to get a little break you know and rest my body and enjoy myself so it was good obviously when we played the club World Cup I was starting to train with the team so I was pretty much involved with it obviously you want to play so that's still a different feeling but uh that was actually nice to be there it was a lot of positives you know for me and just to be be around the team and winning that fifth [Music] one well the headline news today is actually on the bench where for the first time since August is the sight of Kevin De Bruna a serious hamstring injury which required surgery has seen his enforced absence might we see a little Cameo from him this afternoon we spoke about it and uh we said like let's just be involved with the team but I'm not going to play so I know what is happening I'm just going to get a little bit in in a rhythm of being back with a squad before it actually happens you know warm up on the touch line knowing that the people are going to be happy maybe about seeing me back after being out for that long and that was about it and you know it was actually like a a cry it's a relaxing experience well there are huge ch is ringing around the at the moment because they've seen Kevin Bru that warm up I thought there'd been another goal there that we missed up CL uh I didn't know it's was going to be that loud it was actually really really loud and I was a little bit surprised you know you don't really want to know what to do you still want to be serious I'm not going to fly around and say guys uh how is it I don't know it's just it was really nice and yeah specially well that's what it means to these Manchester City fans to see him back I mean I've never ever been at a ground where 40 odd th000 people are standing up clapping a substitute warming up what Kevin needs is accumulate weeks training session weeks and weeks and weeks and minutes weeks and minutes the blues begin the defense of BFA cup they won as the second part of that historic treble it felt good I got out of the game what I needed to get and he's run onto the field to a huge evation he's just been given the captain's armb by Reuben you know it was good to have some touches some runs to Oscar Bob I came in and we scored really quickly 3 40 and I just felt comfortable that's all that I really needed about that time Kevin De Bry back in the team back with an assist Kevin De bruyne Off the Bench got an assist as if he's never been away apart from the fact that he's got a new floppy haircut which I which I quite like just to differentiate this season's Kevin De bruyne it look like he'd been out injured since the 1990s yeah you know why I like his hair because somewhere along the line he said I'm going to change my hair man um there's no plan actually I I don't know um it's not always easy when you play with it but then I said like I'm not playing for a long time so we'll we'll just grow it a bit and see how it goes and you know I'm I'm happy about it so I I don't know there's not really a plan people say I look a little bit younger now so maybe I'll have to take it though what do you think about his haircut I'm [Laughter] jealous it feels special it feels exciting both sets of players will feel that it could be priv Goku a space for Walker and it's a lovely finish that is a glorious goal Exquisite from Bernardo Silva rimar It's a first time ball to isak he hits the shot into the net it's Newcastle one city one space for Gordon Gordon's gone for go oh my word three goals at the highest order inside 37 minutes and Newcastle thrillingly have turned this game on its head I came in the game and it went so quickly I felt like I was only on the pitch for a couple of minutes and I was there for probably about 20 minutes or something but it couldn't be a better way to come back into the Premier League the return to the Premier League stage of one of its finest entertainers everyone kind of slept on just how much of an impact he would cause I didn't expect it to be this quickly Off the Bench and in quite so emphatic a way de bruyne's performance I mean it was just an inspired Kevin De bruyne we all know he's got that in his locker he is one superb football kdb we've missed you we love you it's 22 how great was it to be back out there playing football in the Premier League I missed this you know Kevin De bruo back what a 24 minutes of Premier League be fair I think it was was more willpower than anything else but yeah it was crazy you know he impacted the game look at the pass what he done for that OS ball coming in in score BR coming off the bench with 20 minutes to go City at that point with 2-1 down goal and an assist later and it was three points for the champion to come back after that long out and to perform how he did the king is back that's what it is it seems a long time but in the scope of things it's not you know it's very quick from you go from operation to feeling like you're never going to do anything normal again to then at least being in the gym and being occupied and then you blink it's like the season you blink and almost he's back playing sometimes it's a it's an opportunity to get better which sounds ridiculous when he's somebody at Kevin De bruyne's level you know the fact is coming and he's hit the ground running you know early days but the performance has been good he's feeling good I think you know again speaks to kev's kind of application and drive to get better even even at this stage of his career I was never really scared about coming back on a good level or something you know um I think it just depends on the world more than you know I've been playing for 14 15 years so I don't see why in a way I would fall off quickly I just want to be the best player I can be and help the team win and then hopefully just have a good second part of the Season what for me is maybe the first part so uh I I don't know where it can get me but I'm I'm I'm happy with the way everything went I'm happy how I feel now so hopefully I can just have a good 6 months now and then see why it ends up [Music]

Channel: Man City

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Length: 22min 14sec (1334 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 19 2024