Dani Vivian on the comeback: set to train with the group in the league break

Dani Vivian is nearing the end of his recovery and, as he has confirmed, he will rejoin group training during the league break. The Athletic shared the update ahead of their broadcast, and the centre-back made the plan public: “In these two weeks I’ll use the time to get myself back into the group. It’s been something that has taken time to get rid of and to feel good again.”

Back in the final stretch

The setback comes from the injury that kept him out: in mid-July, it was reported that he was suffering an insertional injury of the long adductor in his right leg after carrying discomfort from the previous season. In DAZN’s cameras, Vivian explained the situation in more detail: “I’d been dealing with problems since last season—maybe I should have stopped, but we decided to continue because of the team’s situation. It’s taken a long time, but now we’re here.”

Now the key point is timing. The league pause—the longest in recent years, according to the report—will be the window chosen for him to start training again with his teammates and finish his return process with confidence.

What he says about the team

Vivian also spoke about the Athletic’s current moment and how he watches matches from the sidelines: “I experience games like if I were playing.” He added that the team’s path looks right, even if results haven’t matched expectations: “Things for the team are going in a good direction, maybe the results aren’t turning out as we were hoping.”

With his return to group training scheduled for the coming weeks, the main question now is when he’ll be fully available to play more regularly—after this break. As Mundo Deportivo reports, the idea is to use the final phase of recovery to move into proper match readiness with the squad.