Real Madrid youngster Marc Cucalon has announced his premature retirement from professional football. According to Sportskeeda, the youngster had to hang his boots after falling victim to a rare infection in 2022. Cucalon, born in Zaragoza, would not continue playing football after a two-year battle with the bacterial infection in his knee.
The midfielder was captain of the club's Juvenil A team in 2022 and played alongside the now-Como star Nico Paz in the academy.
reports that Cucalon suffered a ruptured ACL following a heavy tackle when Los Blancos' U-19 team faced Celtic in the UEFA Youth League in Glasgow, Scotland in September 2022. He was 17 years old then, but never returned to a football pitch afterwards. He underwent surgery to fix the problem, only for bacteria to infiltrate the cartilage used to replace the ACL during the surgery.
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