
Martin Braithwaite spent time in a wheelchair as a child; now he's Lionel Messi's wingman at Barcelona
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It's a memory that Martin Braithwaite has pushed to the back of his mind -- watching his friends having fun while he was temporarily trapped in a wheelchair.
"I don't have a lot of memories because it's such a sad moment," Barcelona striker Martin Braithwaite recently told CNN Sport, "You're looking at all the other kids running around, smiling, playing. It hurt. Obviously, it was a really tough period of my life." Between the ages of five and seven, Braithwaite suffered from Legg-Calvé-Perthes, a hip disorder that could have led to deformities in his femur.More Related News