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– I have been very far down now. It just feels unreal.

That’s what Molde player Mille Aune says to NRK after the terrifying experience on the football pitch at the weekend.

She immediately realized what had happened.

She had experienced this before.

In April 2022, when she played in the Toppserien for Brann, she tore both the anterior and posterior cruciate ligament in her right knee.

It was far from certain that she would be able to continue her football career at the top level.

But after 14 tough months on the sidelines, he returned to the field in the autumn of last year and managed to play four matches in the Toppserien for Brann.

– Small in the knee

At the weekend he was ready for the series opener with his new club Molde. But it only took 17 minutes before it struck again – this time in the other knee.

– I was only going to press a Rosenborg player. But I noticed that the heel remained stuck in the grass, the knee decided to participate in the change of direction, but the heel did not. I only noticed that it hit my knee. I realized quite quickly that this was serious, she says to NRK.

Aune, who has 27 age-specified international matches for Norway, is naturally very disappointed by the slightly bizarre situation.

– I think it’s scary. You get the feeling that you can’t trust your own body. It is quite a terrible feeling to feel that the body is not playing on the team, she says.

– Waiting to wake up from a nightmare

The message she has received from the doctors is that she has suffered a common cruciate ligament injury, which means nine months away from football after she has been operated on.

How quickly the operation can be carried out is currently uncertain.

– But I hope it can come as quickly as possible, she says.

This week she shared the news of the injury in an emotional Instagram post.

“It still feels like I’m waiting to wake up from a nightmare. It will be painful and difficult to have to do everything again. Not feeling ready to have to learn to walk, learn to bend and stretch my knee again, learn to center passes again. And to operate again. It will be hard to see teammates get to go out on the field every week to do what they love most, what I want to do most right now. But I’m going to be cheering for you!” she wrote in the post.

– Really moved

In the comments section, congratulations and warm words are overflowing. Several Norwegian football profiles have written words of support.

– I have read everything, and I have been really moved to see how many people actually care. When I start to train a little more, I will probably go in and read it once more so that it will give some kind of extra motivation, she says.

One of the people she relies on extra is her soccer boyfriend Halldor Stenevik, who plays for Molde’s men’s team in the Eliteserien.

He writes in the comment field: “You have one round left before you stand there as a winner.”

– It is of course very comforting to have someone to lean on when you are at home. I can be brutally honest about my feelings every single day and get to vent here at home about the bad thoughts you have. Then I have a little more positive energy to bring when I go out the door, she says of the support from Stenevik.

– Terrible to think about

Aune believes the previous period of injury made her stronger.

But she doesn’t think it’s any advantage that she knows what awaits her when the road back to the football field starts again after the new injury.

– Right now I think it is negative that I know what steps I have to go through before I can possibly get back on the football pitch. The first time you don’t think too much about the fact that you have to learn to walk again, that you have to learn to run again and send a pass again. But now I know all the steps I have to go through. Right now I think it’s absolutely terrible to think that I have to rewind my life two years back, she says.

– Does not feel at home anywhere

The love until football means that she still feels motivated. Nevertheless, she uses the word “eventually” about a return to the football pitch.

– The feeling you get after a match, that you are tired and satisfied with your own performance, that’s the kind of feeling I’m after. But right now I’m just trying to process the fact that I’m actually out with a new injury, she says.

– What are you most afraid of before you now go on another long injury period?

– It’s enough that you don’t feel at home somewhere, if that makes sense. When you play on a team, you always have a place that you can call a kind of family. You have a place to come to every single day that is work, but at the same time the most fun you know. It’s not like I don’t have a place to come to anymore, but it will be a different type of arena. When others go out on the field to practice football, you put on your trainers and go to the gym. You don’t get to experience everything inside and what happens outside on the pitch.