Reggae Boy convalesces after leg injury

BY DANIA BOGLE Observer staff reporter

Wednesday, January 04, 2012

REGGAE Boy Dicoy Williams is positive and looking forward to continued recovery after suffering cruciate ligament injuries to his leg which have kept him out of competitive football for almost seven months.

Williams suffered the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and lateral collateral ligament (LCL) injuries to his leg during the 2011 Concacaf Gold Cup tournament in the United States.

The injury came only five months after he signed a contract with US Major League Soccer team Toronto FC.

The player said the first three of four months dealing with the injury were the hardest.

"It's really, really rough knowing that you're away from your family and friends and no one to talk to and no one to be around; knowing that you're not playing, doing what you do best, and football is what I want to do.

"You don't have the opportunity to do it and no friends to talk to, so it was kind of hard for the first three to four months," he conceded.

He added that things got better after a while and then comes the acceptance.

"After a while you just got to accept that you're injured and move on and try get back," he said.

The 25-year-old player has been in Jamaica on holiday since December 16 and will return to the MLS for pre-season training on January 16.

After the end of the last season of football Williams spent a month in Los Angeles, California where he was undergoing rehabilitation at the Athlete's Performance Centre.

Williams told the Observer that despite missing the action, he does not wish to rush the recovery process; instead, choosing to take it one day at a time as he looks forward to perhaps being ready to return in another two or three months.

"I don't really want to rush it. International games, I don't think I'm ready; it's more rough and it's World Cup qualifying, so you don't really want to rush it. You want to go into World Cup qualifying games prepared and those are vital games.

"I think when I'm back I'm going to play a couple practice matchs, a couple reserve games and see how that feels before I start playing for Toronto and then after that I can be ready for the national team," he asserted.

"That's my aim, to play for the World Cup qualifiers, help my country go to the World Cup for 2014, so it's been a hard work in progress and I'm working very hard to get back," he added.

Williams, who spent the holiday relaxing with his mother and other relatives in the Mountain View area of Kingston, told the Observer he was happy for the fact that despite having only played a shortened season with the Canada-based football outfit before picking up the injury, he had been resigned.

"I played like eight games, but the games that I played I guess were very good, so they gave me the opportunity to be back. I signed a new contract when I was leaving, so it's less pressure because I was first all thinking about the contract, being back in Toronto because it's a very good city, so I'm grateful for the opportunity to be back," he said.

"That was one of the main things that was getting me down, stressing me because when you leave Jamaica and in four months' time you're injured, you don't know if you're going to get back a contract, so the day I signed the contract I was so happy and the stress started to come off," he shared.

Williams is also gearing for what he hears promises to be a cold Canadian winter.

"The weather has been good since I've been there. Leaving there in November there was a lot of sun and the summer was good. I have no complaints about the weather yet. I hear when I go back in January and February it's the coldest part of it, but I'm up to the task... getting prepared for it."

In the meantime, he stays in touch with his family through modern technology.

"I miss them a lot and sometimes I try to talk to my mom on Skype and my brother is on bb (BlackBerry Messenger), but they understand that this is what I want to do," he stated.

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