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Marcos Alonso
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(Madrid, 31 years old) are modern.
They look white, and in fact they are, but they have a series of strange drawings and colors that make them modern.
Modern to say the least.
They are a forty-something, that too.
He smiles, but during the conversation his shy character, little given to grandiloquence, is intuited.
Not even to talk about the situation he and his teammates are going through at Chelsea, a club hit by its owner's membership in the group of Russian oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin.
The sanctions, which range from not being able to sell tickets (for the match against Madrid in the Champions League, they will be able to do so, but they will not keep the money), to a limit on travel expenses, Marcos says that, for the time being, they will not They have affected nothing.
There are those who say that these national team breaks are very boring. Don't let the coach hear that!
They are not a roll, it is always lucky to be here.
With a World Cup so close, with so few training camps to prepare for it, it's extremely important for the national team.
In this case also returning to Barcelona 18 years later, which I'm sure people will really want to see us... Nothing, nothing, nothing boring. It's a bit strange that a national team doesn't visit a city like Barcelona in 18 years old, don't you think? I don't know who makes those decisions, or what it depends on.
We are very happy to be able to go, and eager to see Cornellá cheering on the team. After going to the Nations League, he was not in the November squad.
And Luis Enrique said about you: «It is the most unfair time I have been with a player,
It is the position that has cost me the most due to the performance of Marcos Alonso.”
What does that tell you? They told me, yes.
I don't know, what is in my power is to be 100% at my club to come to the top in case the coach calls me.
He is the one who makes the decisions.How is Luis Enrique at short distances?He is a great coach.
He has shown it in all the years that he has been at the top.
Experience is very important, and I am very happy to be here and that he can help me. But is it true that he is much closer in personal treatment than he seems? Yes, he is a good coach, both football-wise and personally. He was with him in the first calls (end of 2018) and then disappeared for almost three years, through a pandemic.
Did he think he wouldn't come back? As I said before, the only thing I thought, when he didn't come,
It was to be at the top of my club.
Now that I'm here I know I have to keep up. Is the atmosphere as good as they say in there? Yes.
In all the calls that I have come, it is a fantastic atmosphere and that helps.
By spending so many days together and training, that atmosphere makes us enjoy this much more.
It is a pleasure to be here.
Pablo GarciaRFEF
If I say "World Cup in Qatar", what do you say? Many things come to mind.
We've all watched the national team since we were little, now being here is a dream.
It would be lucky to be able to be there and live that experience and, above all, compete.
We have a great team and to be fighting for a World Cup with the national team would be a dream. Does the way you play for your club and for the Spanish national team change a lot? Yes, it does.
The style of the national team has been the same for a long time, it is not the same as at Chelsea.
In both cases, what helps to adapt to one form or another is having teammates with such high quality.
That happens here in the national team, you learn by training and listening to the coach. When the boom of Spanish footballers emigrating to England happened, everyone said that life as a footballer there was much easier,
that people were more respectful.
You have been in London for six years.
Is it still like that? Yes, yes.
It is a different culture.
I have also played in Italy, and there and Spain are warmer, Mediterranean, passionate countries.
In England, people experience it differently, perhaps with more distance, I don't know if even with more respect.
But hey, the fans are the ones who rule and you try to adapt and be close to them.Has the situation Chelsea is going through affected your day-to-day life as players?Today, I can tell you that it hasn't affected at all.
Absolutely.
Yes, there is a lot of talk, I don't know what the next step will be, but we have to concentrate on continuing to win games.
We've been six in a row. It was even published that they should go by bus to away games...
Does that affect a professional locker room? The truth is that until now we have lived calmly, because in the end it is a complicated situation, but external to the club, and I don't know if it is external even to the owner of the club.
The players are focused on continuing to win games, on reassuring the workers, the fans, because Chelsea is much bigger than an owner.
Pablo GarciaRFEF
You are not going to have any problems making ends meet, but are the workers who live with you at the club worried? Let's see, maybe we are talking more than necessary, because for now none of that has I think it happens.
But it is clear that the important thing in that case, in case things get worse, are the workers and not the footballers.
The important ones are them and that the club could continue to function as it has until today.
But on a day-to-day basis he is never there, in fact I think he doesn't even live in London.
Very specific days came. And in the Champions League, Real Madrid, almost nothing. It's a very nice game, for me even more special if possible.
They are some Champions quarters, surely it will be matched and we will have to be very involved to pass,
because we already saw against PSG how Madrid is in the European Cup.
He will be nice.What does Marcos Alonso do when he is not a footballer?The first thing is always to come and see the family.
And on vacation, since I've been away from Spain for a long time, I always enjoy family, friends, bullfighting... There are many things that you miss after so many years.
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