Michail Antonio has been without a club since leaving West Ham just months after his horror car crash but the forward remains determined to find a club sooner rather than later
Michail Antonio believes he still has more to give football as he eyes a return to club action. The striker was involved in a horrific car accident in December last year.
Since then, the veteran forward has left West Ham following the expiration of his contract and has been without a club. Antonio’s only football has been a couple of appearances for national side Jamaica back in June, though he has been linked with a return to club football in recent months and also trained with Brentford.
Asked about the terrifying incident on TNT Sports, Antonio revealed that he had very little memory of the crash itself, saying: “I couldn’t tell you what happened because I don’t know.
“I don’t remember training. I remember leaving the training ground but I don’t remember driving from turning right out of the training ground, I don’t remember nothing else after that.
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“The accident happened, I was concussed. It wasn’t until four or five days in, the fourth day, that I started to remember patches of what was going on.”
Further asked if he was tempted to take a step back from the limelight, Antonio assured that was not the case and further underlined his desire to return to club football. He said: “I wasn’t done with football and I didn’t want my career to be finished literally in a car crash.
“The very first thing is as soon I could was to speak to the doctor, the first thing I said to him was, ‘Am I going to play again?’, and from him saying to me, ‘Yes’, that was me, no problem, that’s all I need to know. I knew I had more in me and I knew I’ve still got more in me.”
Antonio has of course already made a number of appearances since his comeback, having earned three caps for Jamaica in the summer. And while he was glad to be back on the pitch, Antonio admitted that he still had one small regret. He said: “I was back on the pitch within six months. I played a couple of games for Jamaica in June. Still to this day burns me.
“The first time I get on the pitch, there was a time where a player at Jamaica, he’s gone through, I’m standing open goal, all he needed to do was roll me the ball.
“I was screaming at him. Let me have this moment, first game back, comeback story, it’s written in the stars. He missed and you know the worst thing about it? He missed it and it goes half a yard behind me. I’m stretching my leg, I’m stretching my leg so much just to get a touch but it goes behind me.”
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