Dortmund's Bartra calls bus attack 'hardest 15 minutes of my life'
Days after multiple explosions struck Borussia Dortmund's team bus and injured defender Marc Bartra, the Spaniard opened up about the incident he calls the "hardest 15 minutes of his life."
Still in hospital recovering from an operation on a broken wrist he suffered in Tuesday's attack, Bartra updated his condition via Instagram on Friday after a visit from his family.
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"They are my everything, the reason I struggle to overcome obstacles and this has been the worst of my life, an experience I would not want anyone in this world (to have)," Bartra wrote.
"The pain, the panic and the uncertainty of not knowing what was going on, or how long it would last ... were the longest and hardest 15 minutes of my life."
The club's Champions League quarter-final first-leg tilt with Monaco was postponed until Wednesday, just one day later. Der BVB lost the match 3-2.
Like many of his Dortmund teammates affected by Tuesday's attack, Bartra prioritises the safety of himself and his family over football.
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"I think that the shock is decreasing more and more and, at the same time, it adds to the desire to live, to fight, to work, to laugh, to cry, to feel, to love, to believe, to play, to train, to continue to enjoy my people, loved ones, companions, my passion, to defend, to smell the grass as I do before the game starts and motivate me," Bartra wrote.
"These days when I look at my wrist, swollen and badly wounded, you know what I feel? Pride," he said of the injury that is expected to sideline the former Barcelona man for a month.
"I look at it proudly, thinking that all the damage they wanted to do to us on Tuesday stayed in this (injury)."