You can be one of the greatest French handball players in history, have a track record as long as your arm, and find yourself in a very delicate situation. This is what is happening to valentine doorthe right-back of the French handball team, who confided in L’Équipe on his current difficulties, which prevent him from responding to the summons of the coach of the Blues for the next matches. “I have had personal problems since the return of the Euro”he says in the preamble.
The 31-year-old sportsman continues and says a little more about the nature of the problems that are eating away at him at the moment. “My wife left after the Euros. Which forced me to go to therapy for the first time, to try to manage”, he explains. If he now wants to be optimistic about the future of his couple, the fact remains that therapy brings out things that Valentin Porte has trouble managing. “Today, I have the impression that with my wife it will work out, in any case I do everything for. But as my therapist tells me, ‘what matters to me is you’. There, for two weeks, she presses on things buried deep, that I did not necessarily want to bring out”he continues.
The therapist talked about depression and that it must not turn into depression
The teammate of Nikola Karabatic and Elohim Prandi in Blue is clearly in the trough at the moment, and when the journalist asks him if he is not having a depression, Valentin Porte is hesitant, before answering: “The therapist spoke of depression and that it must not turn into depression. There, I am slowly going up the slope but I need a little time”assures the handball player born in Versailles.
In a phase of reconstruction currently, Valentin Porte nevertheless tries to put things into perspective. “We have to put things in perspective: I’m not going to die tomorrow, I don’t have terminal cancer. It’s something deep, complicated to manage but you have to do it seriously”he concludes.
find the interview with Valentin Porte in full on the L’Équipe website.