“Mikel has given us a lesson in how to deal with recovering from a difficult injury, and how to respect the people he has around him. “Such difficult times form part of elite sport,” Olabe says. As Real Sociedad’s sporting director Roberto Olabe tells The Athletic. Through it all, the responsibility that Oyarzabal, still just 25, feels as club captain is what makes the documentary different. He soon finds his voice though, and takes us through the process from the day of the injury, the surgery, the physical pain that keeps him awake at night, the gruelling recovery work with the physios, how he misses being part of his team. It opens with the Basque forward walking on crutches onto the training pitch at the La Liga club’s Zubieta facility, and struggling to sit down in a chair, to even speak to the camera. It is low-budget, made by the club’s own TV station, and available for free on YouTube.
Mikel Oyarzabal, A Recovery Of 10 is a lot different from the flashy ‘faux-insider’ documentaries some of Europe’s biggest clubs are producing in partnership with giant global streaming sites.
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