• Analysis. Raúl García's sweet revenge: "He had a duty with the team"

Left

Gurpegi

,

Iraola, Susaeta, San Jose, Aduriz

... and

Raúl García

remained. Although he does not see himself like that, at

34 he

is the leader of this

Athletic

who aspires to win the

Super Cup

. A challenge that would have been impossible without the two goals with which he executed

Real Madrid

, in a difficult season in which he is playing less than ever. It will not be an obstacle for him to renew - "I want to continue here and the club knows it, there is no rush" - and continue to be that footballer that his fans love and the rest hate.

Have you gotten used to being public enemy number one? Unfortunately you get used to it because now, with social networks, anything goes in football, it doesn't matter what is said or whether it is disrespectful or not, because there is no education.

They have educated me not to disrespect anyone in my day to day life, but unfortunately in football you have to live with that.

We are giving normality to things that should not be normal. He must be one of the few footballers who do not have social networks. I have a private account, to interact with family and friends, but I do not have public profiles.

I do not like.

I like to speak things to your face.

Whether you agree with you or not, we can talk and discuss a topic calmly What most people don't know is that you are the calmest guy in the world off the field and that those who have treated you closely have you on a pedestal .Because it does not matter that it is known.

Football is set up as it is set up and nobody stops to think that we are people with our way of being, whether you like our way of playing or not, that I accept those criticisms.

We are normal people who are lucky ... Well, I do not like to say luck: we have earned the right to do a job that we like.

As it is very well paid, some people think that there is an open bar.

But you have to think that we are people and that you have to go beyond our work. That "they earn many millions, it is their salary". It seems that sometimes we cannot say that we are suffering, that we are having a bad time.

And indeed there are very hard times.

Of course, I am not going to compare myself with a family that does not have to make ends meet, but it seems that we do not have the right to express our views.

We are people and hard times exist for us too. Have you suffered in recent months? Of course.

And I have no problem saying it, I am not hiding.

And not so much for me anymore ... I am very concerned about the team.

When things don't work out, it worries me and does it all day.

For me it is not going to train and that's it.

I am 24 hours a day thinking about training, about the game, about things going well ... With the experience I have, what worries me is the team. Has it been unfair to Athletic? Unfair or not ... In the end, football is results and we have had a time when we have failed or things have not turned out.

And there has been a host of situations that have caused people not to have the patience that we would like them to have.

At Athletic we always say that we are different, but being different consists in doing it, not in saying it.

What hurts us is knowing that we do feel that we are different.

Whether things turn out good or bad, we are a special club and we have to prove it. What happened to you in Valdebebas?

It is not like you to be expelled and less in 13 minutes. I was wrong.

No need to review it again.

What if I erased myself, what if I don't know what ... No, just people are wrong.

When I have a card I usually measure very well and know how far I can go and in that game I let my heart carry me and I was wrong, but why? Probably because I wanted to demonstrate, because I was not playing and being an important moment for me. .. But there is nothing beyond.

I was wrong that day and I'm sure I will make a mistake sometime in the future.

I did not know how to measure a situation that normally I can measure.

It hurt me that I did not know how to handle that situation in a different way with the experience I have. You said that scoring two goals against Madrid was nothing special for you.

Sure sure.

It is true that I come from Atlético and that there has always been a rivalry, but there is no more.

Within Madrid I have relationships with many players and we speak normally, as happens with any other team.

I have nothing against Madrid.

Simply joy at the difficulty of scoring a goal for them, as it would happen against Barça or Atlético, and also in this case because it was a semi-final. Do you consider yourself compensated after your performance in the semi-final? Never.

It's never enough.

I have to contribute a lot to this group, whether I play or not.

Even though I'm 34 years old, I still feel that strength to be able to help and to be important here. Is he a happy footballer? It's hard for me to be, I always want a little more.

It may seem that Thursday was a game of absolute happiness, but in my head I'm thinking that it was a good game, that things turned out well, but that if we don't win the final it's no use.

Looking for that little bit more is what makes me be alive and what makes me improve.

I am in a happy moment in my life, yes, but I am very demanding of myself. Do you think I would be happier if I were not so demanding? Yes, but I would achieve less than I have achieved.

In my career I have met colleagues who take things in a totally different way and have not achieved what I have achieved, even with more conditions.

If I were not so demanding, the pressure of having been in this for so many years would be less and it would relativize everything a little more.

But I can't, it doesn't go with my way of being, which is what has made me achieve everything I have achieved.

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