Resolved and resolute, Arriola got back to work. After a successful surgery and a grueling 10-month-long rehabilitation process, he finally took the field for D.C. United again on November 8, the last day of the MLS regular season. With delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Arriola didn’t miss any major action with the USMNT. Now, he’s returned to the red, white, and blue eager to prove he’s back at full strength.
“I'm confident I will continually get better,” Arriola told reporters from Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday. “Being able to come back for that last game with D.C. was to try and make the playoffs, but secondly it was for self-confidence to know that I played an official match and I can go into a National Team camp and feel confident and feel normal, be treated normal and not really have any type of limitation. I'm looking forward to kind of continuing that, and also extremely grateful to be here.
“You get a different perspective and mentality when you're out for so long due to an injury. To be able to come back and put on the crest, to just be able to train and have a good time, it's special.”
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Arriola rehabbed for almost all of 2020 in D.C., but the road to recovery runs a lonely course: countless hours of solo work in the gym and a gradual return to run and play soccer again. While he made an emotional return to the Audi Field pitch at the end of the season, this month’s USMNT training camp marks his return to regular full-team activities. When the potential for a December friendly became an opportunity, it turned into an important goal for Arriola.
“Prior to this camp, I matched my highest speed from pre-surgery, which was a big sign fitness-wise,” Arriola said. “Having constant communication with the staff throughout the year and getting updates from them, knowing that there could possibly be a December camp, that was an external factor to make sure that I'm able to be back.
“There's only so much that you can do until you get into a real training environment. Not that I was not in a real training environment in D.C., but the way that the past couple of months in-season there was game after game, so I was doing a lot of individual training. There's nothing really that compares to this.”
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