Carles Pérez, from exploding at Barça to resurfacing at Celta: "Nothing went to my head"

At 24 years old, the sports career of

(Granollers, 1998) has been a roller coaster.

The young man from

was a youth squad for

, moved to

, became a fixture in the national team's youth teams, exploded in the

first team , signed and suffered in a giant like

and now, as if decades had passed since the first time, he seeks to resurrect in

.

From

he chats with EL MUNDO before visiting the

, the lawn that one day was his home.

A thousand sensations.

What does it mean to return to the League? I decided to opt for Celta because of the project and because they trusted me.

I was good at Barça, but it's true that arriving in Rome, in a new country, with a new language, with a different pace of play... Well, these are experiences that have helped me in many things.

It wasn't a disaster and I don't regret it.

Now, with continuity and confidence, another Carles will be seen. When someone leaves Spain, do we forget about him a little? Yes.

If you are Spanish in Spain, you are better known, people are more attentive.

In Italy you can have a good game that people will talk about you, but it's not the same as here.

So for me, coming back was the best thing to do because of the adaptation.

I came here for a year on loan, I don't know what will happen next, but for a year I couldn't go to Germany, for example, to learn German, which would cost me much more.

Vigo was the best option. And how about the start? Very good.

It's true that I've come from a year of playing one game yes and two no, so I'm picking up the pace and everything takes its adaptation process.

Against Betis I was already more successful and I still have to see the goal, I'm sure the goals will come.

It's a matter of trust. It won't be a normal game for you. No... Since I went to Italy I haven't played against Barça again and going back to that field where I've lived so many good times I'll like it, I'm looking forward to it. these days that returning to the League meant saying "here I am".

At the Camp Nou that will be multiplied by a thousand, right? Of course, my motivation for this match is incredible.

Seeing some teammates again, the stadium... All of that gives you extra motivation.

How have you experienced the whole process that has been your career?

A bit of a roller coaster? Nothing went to my head because I have a family that happened to me... (laughs).

I have a very normal life, from home to training and from training to home.

I have a nutritionist, a physical trainer, people with whom I review my matches... I'm not one of those who go home and do nothing.

It is true that at Barça it affected me a little to do eight very good months at 20 years old.

I turned down offers while at Barça B to stay another year in Second B, being able to go to the First Division and, well, after getting there, doing well and ending up leaving... In the end I went to Roma, which is a great club, but there are something that stayed with me, you know?

And it is something that I have dragged a little.

The first year in Rome I played good games, I started very well, but the following year it was different,

also because of the team scheme. Have you worked with psychologists? Yes, I've been through that.

I think that's the most important thing.

You can be physically well, run a lot, have confidence, but if your head is not working, the nutritionist or the physical trainer are useless.

I went to a psychologist when I left Barça and during the first year at Roma.

And I have been working on it, although not so often now.

Now I feel fine. Do the statistics give you anxiety? I don't give it much importance.

I know the goal will come.

I think the important thing is to play well and create chances, you don't have to get obsessed.

I don't pay much attention to that or to the networks, I spend a lot of that because I think that as a player it doesn't add to you.

Like if you get a hat trick or fail all of them, you don't have to believe more or believe less.

For example, I don't have Instagram on my mobile, I don't want to read anything.

I work and that's it, I don't need outside opinion.

There are players who are affected by what they say, I trust my people and my family. Has Instagram always been like this? I deleted it two years ago.

It's active, but I don't carry it.

In Rome I was good, but it is not an easy place to play, the Italians live it a lot.

If you make a great match, great, but if you play badly they annihilate you.

I decided it was better to take it off and focus on myself. How about Jose Mourinho in Rome? Personally very good, really.

He played little, but because of the system he used.

He goes straight ahead, if you do it right he tells you and if you do it wrong too.

It's not like those who don't say anything, they sit you down and he's already there.

He is close and has a winning mentality.

No bad word towards him, on the contrary.

Grateful for the mindset he has instilled in me.

When I was a child, I changed the Espanyol youth academy for Barcelona's. When Espanyol signed me when I was 10 years old, I said "holy shit, I'm going to get serious."

I had always been from Barça.

I was at Espanyol, but if Barça called me I went with my eyes closed.

And that opportunity came when he was 14 years old. How did being in such an important quarry affect him? It was coming to Barça and not stopping going to the Spanish youth team.

It's where I made myself known.

I was always with my friends Cucurella and Aleña and well, let's see, I like that.

You opt for football and leave your studies a bit, although I have up to high school and when I'm calmer I want to get something out of it.

Of those from the lower ones, many have remained without reaching the elite.

What is there to have?

How did being in such an important youth academy affect you? It was coming to Barça and not stopping going to the Spanish youth team.

It's where I made myself known.

I was always with my friends Cucurella and Aleña and well, let's see, I like that.

You opt for football and leave your studies a bit, although I have up to high school and when I'm calmer I want to get something out of it.

Of those from the lower ones, many have remained without reaching the elite.

What is there to have?

How did being in such an important youth academy affect you? It was coming to Barça and not stopping going to the Spanish youth team.

It's where I made myself known.

I was always with my friends Cucurella and Aleña and well, let's see, I like that.

You opt for football and leave your studies a bit, although I have up to high school and when I'm calmer I want to get something out of it.

Of those from the lower ones, many have remained without reaching the elite.

What is there to have?

, I don't know, there are many factors.

I know of friends of mine who have had injuries that have not allowed them to move forward, others luck, others that the head goes to another place... I don't know.

I am focused but you also have to be lucky.

I had a good preseason with Barça the year I moved up and I had just had a good year with B, but I was lucky to play the first four league games because Suárez and Messi were injured.

That later if you have the opportunity it depends on you, but you have to be given that opportunity.

I was already lucky and took advantage of it, others did not.

But look at Cucurella, for example, he didn't have the opportunity at Barça and now he's at Chelsea.

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