Santi Cazorla finishes fairy-tale story after he scores for Spain for first time since 2015

Santi Cazorla finishes a fairy-tale story after he scores for Spain for the first time since 2015 while playing against Malta in Euro qualifiers.

Santi Cazorla completed his dream comeback after he scored for Spain for the first time since 2015. The Spanish midfielder went through 11 operations in as many months, needed a skin graft that moved a tattoo to his heel and was lucky to avoid a foot amputation.

At that time doctors even said that Cazorla was lucky to even walk again. Two years later, the Spaniard has started playing top-flight football and currently is playing for Villarreal in Spain.

Even though injuries marred his peak years but the player is still at his level best and is showing that he is still the special player, which led fans across all the Premier League clubs to admire him.

His continued performances have eventually led to a call up from Spain’s national team, and last night the 34-year-old made his second appearance for La Roja post-injury call up against Malta and scored to make his side qualify for the Euro 2020.

After Malta produced a poor goal-kick, Spain launched a counter-attack through Jesus Navas and the ball eventually found Cazorla who in typically ambidextrous fashion – found the bottom corner.

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The goal by Cazorla lightened the crowd as all the Spanish supporters in the stadium cheered for the star midfielder. A special moment as his four-year drought with Spain has finally ended.

Cazorla has been phenomenal with Villarreal while scoring seven goals during his comeback season and has gone from strength to strength this campaign, even scoring a worldie against Barcelona.

This road to recovery has been lauded massively among the football fraternity with people getting inspired by Cazorla’s struggles and historic comeback. Whereas, Spain thrashed Malta by a scoreline of 7-0.

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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