Sevilla launches season ticket campaign for 2026/27, with prices and options for two-part payment. Jon Guridi, new signing, shares his experience with the injury that almost forced him out of football. The midfielder was almost a year away from the pitch due to a serious knee injury, but it served as a learning experience to believe in himself. The Sevilla FC, with which he commits until 2028, was one of the top players from the Real Sociedad's youth academy, but just when he was about to debut in the first team, he suffered a serious knee injury. A problem that made him question his continuity in football, being almost a year away from the pitch, but the player did not give up and took it as an example of resilience. Everything happened in March 2017. Jon Guridi was 22 years old and had just debuted with the first team. After a training session, the player went to the medical services to consult about some discomfort in his right knee and after the tests, it was determined that he had an osteochondritis dissecante in the femoral intercondylar internal knee of grade IV, with a detached bone fragment. Or what is the same, a serious injury that made him undergo surgery and be away from the pitch for more than 200 days. Just when he was starting to earn a place in the first team. "At that moment, I thought 'I have to leave because it hurts', but I always kept insisting", he acknowledged in an interview with Relevo. Far from leaving him aside, Real Sociedad decided to renew him immediately and over time, almost a decade later, Jon Guridi still remembers it as a key factor in his career. As he explained in a recent interview for ABC: "When they tell me I have to operate, Real treated me very well. I had already agreed to the renewal and just the day they tell me I have to operate, they renew me that same day. That was very important for me, that they placed so much confidence in me. Until you get a serious injury, you don't know what you'll feel. When you're injured, you value more what you have, the daily life, enjoying each training session. I, sincerely, am grateful to have had this injury because it has made me open my eyes and be more aware of what I'm doing. Many people would like to be doing something that truly passions them and I am very grateful". Once recovered from the injury, his body needed physical rhythm and he had to go down to the mud to earn a place in Mirandés, where he offered a brilliant level. In the Burgalés team, he militated for a year and a half and achieved the promotion to Segunda División, category in which in the 2019-2020 season he played 41 matches and scored 3 goals between League and Copa del Rey. Curiously, in that edition of the tournament he faced Sevilla in the quarterfinals. "It was a time when I was just starting to emerge in the first team, but I was injured for more than a year and I didn't feel well. I knew I was going to have to leave the filial. I started the comeback after the injury, but I also had a certain age, I wasn't sub-23 and I knew I had to leave. The best place that could have happened to me was Miranda. We achieved the promotion, I achieved what I was looking for"