Herc Gomez

If somebody would have handed me a lifeline

and said, hey, there's a possibility you could play, I don't know what I would have done.

I don't know what I would have done.

But I know that you need good people around you, and you need always somebody to save the athlete from himself.

So you don't think he should go to the World Cup?

I don't think it should be his decision.

I think it should be a medical opinion.

If there is really a doctor out there who says,

as Shaq put it, because I think it's very important, you play, you're not going to re-injure it.

You're not going to make it worse.

And the possibility of making it worse could include you are altered for the rest of your career.

He's 25 years old.

It's a long, long career ahead of himself.

If that's a guarantee from a medical professional, then it's something that I maybe get behind.

But I've

I don't know which one's going to recommend that.

See, there you go.

If you can walk around with the soles always showing, then yeah.

Yes, absolutely.

Driven.