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Iñigo Martínez cut his hair a few days ago. It was first thing in the morning, when Nicole , her first daughter (another is coming), woke up. As he does not stop, and as his father likes to change the look from time to time, because that ... Iñigo (Ondárroa, Vizcaya, 28 years old) is seriously admitted, but only "at the beginning". Then, he says, it opens "and I change a lot", although a quarter of an hour of conversation, and something else for photography, doesn't work for it. It does, however, to intuit a mature guy, aware that he is facing one of the best moments of his career and aware that, if you play Athletic, if you are Basque, sometimes the cat is sought five feet . And, for him, he only has four.

People who follow the day to day of Athletic say that, without a doubt, this is their best year, it is difficult to say, but it is one of the years in which I find myself the best. I am at a pretty good level, I know, and I feel comfortable and confident. At the moment, as there are no ups and downs, better for everyone. What do you blame? Everything, the experience, the fact of being comfortable, of having stability also off the field, etc ... All that goes well to the head, and the head is often the boss. In fact, the head is very important. In the selection the casting of plants is still open after the march of Piqué. How do you live it? I think we all know that at any time the coach can change and leave you out. You have to do it right, pass on to the coach you want and can be, and take advantage of the moment. Why are there so few left-handed centrals? It's funny yes, the truth is that I don't have an answer for that. Chance, I suppose, although from my point of view it is fine, because we are few left-handed people who play back. Although look, here we are now two [the other one is Mario Hermoso, the central of Atlético de Madrid]. Do you understand that this selection does not excite people? Well, I think it is not that it does not delude, it is that you are seeing that each It is more complicated to play well, because the rivals also play. We have become accustomed to a Spain that played beautifully and in which we had the best in the world, and now I think we have to adapt to what we have. There are very good people here. I think that since we have full confidence, we will make a good European Championship Sure, and some luck is needed. In football you always need some luck. How is Robert Moreno, a coach with very clear ideas. The style will not change. Possession and creating occasions is one of our best weapons. It is very difficult for rivals to run a long time behind the ball and then generate chances when they recover it. We have to do that, insist on this, with very clear ideas. How does Kepa take the goal debate? Here everyone comes to contribute their own. Sometimes you play and sometimes you don't. We all get along and we all assume that you play today and not tomorrow. Kepa is very calm, knows the potential he has, has a lot of personality and makes us all better. Do you see him in the European Championship? It is very difficult to say that. The coach is giving me opportunities, that means he trusts me, in my game, so, to try to give everything I have to go. If I have to go, great; and if not, we will be supporting from home. How do you think Bilbao will receive the national team? There is a lot of controversy in all this, but I don't think there is anything, really. Soccer is football, we all love it, and there may be four that disagree, but everyone else supports it. In that sense, there will be no problem in playing there. You think it will be like playing in any other stadium in Spain. Yes, of course. There will be people from outside and also from there. Everyone will go to support and enjoy the game. Do you think that sometimes from Madrid these things are looked at with too much, with too much magnifying glass? I think that these kinds of things are going too much and it does not favor anything. Bilbao is a very beautiful city, with healthy and close people, and talking and going around that controversy does not lead anywhere. I think so. In your case, there was a controversy because you did not come to a call from Luis Enrique and after a few days you were seen playing with the Euskadi team. Then it was clarified and it was seen that it was a misunderstanding of doctors, but it was said that you did not want to come with Spain. How did he live it? When it's not your fault, when it's not your mistake, you're calm. He was calm because he knew the truth, and the doctors assumed that it was their fault. It annoyed me for not being able to come here, because we all like to come. He obviously read things that ... anyway. But hey, we've been missing this for many years now. Do you think the press sometimes exceeds its comments? I think it's getting out of hand. There are comments, opinions, many of them without knowing what happens. That hurts football a lot, and we could use it all for a spin for football's sake. From the outside you give the impression of being a serious guy, who doesn't like jokes. Let's see, it's true that I It is difficult to open myself at the beginning, I am not very confident in the first change. But no no, then when I open up and I am with the people who know me I am a normal person. But he likes jokes? Yes, well as everyone I guess. What do you like to do when you do not play or train ? I am very familiar, I like to spend time with family and friends, so now that I live in Bilbao, every time I can I escape to town and spend time there. It comes well to disconnect.

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