Football. Ua presents to your attention the revelations of the legendary midfielder Roma Daniele De Rossi.
When it comes to modern Roma, one of the first comes to mind the name of Daniele De Rossi. Yes, this midfielder with a fighting character in the level of legend and epic is inferior to Francesco Totti, but to imagine the Wolves without him is almost impossible. And now there was information that De Rossi can leave Jallorossi, with whom he took place as a football player.
About his mistakes, ups and downs, about the people he had to work with, and those whom he confronted on the football field and beyond, Daniele told in an interview to the magazine Undici.
"My loyalty to Roma is dictated by selfishness" "The base of Roma Trigoria is a special place for me," confesses the 33-year-old football player. "Thinking that one day she will disappear from my daily routine and I will not see the outfitter Roberto Porreka, whom I have known since my studies at the youth academy, or the guys from the bar who have prepared more breakfast for me than my grandmother, my mother And the wife together, I feel confused ".
"From the thought that one day I will free my locker in the locker room, tears come to my eyes, as if I am going to war, or there is some similar event. But sooner or later it can happen, although while I try not to think about it. The only thing I regret now, if it comes to the fact that I spent the whole career in the composition of Roma, is that I did not manage to feel the atmosphere of England or Spain. I often hear about my altruism, loyalty to the colors of my team and so on, but this is only part of the truth. Actually. My choice was dictated by selfishness, because Roma was more important to me than I was for Roma ".
"Sometimes it seems to me that I just can not live without Roma, and that's why I sacrificed the opportunity to take part in Clasico Real Barcelona or play one of the stunning English stadiums. My phone is now torn from calls from coaches who want to see me in their teams, from presidents who offer signed checks with an unmarked amount, but I responded with a refusal because of the banal cowardice and uncertainty that I could settle down somewhere else ".
"I do not have many trophies, but at 22 I became a world champion, I worked under the guidance of coaches who are in the top 10 best mentors of the planet - Luciano Spalletti, Antonio Conte, Luis Enrique. I played with Josep Guardiola, and when I want to become a coach myself, I'll just call him and ask for an internship. And Pep will not refuse. This moment for certain will come, but while I yet have not ripened in order to finish career of the player ".
"I want to take a baseball bat and hit someone in the teeth" "I'm not Lionel Messi, I can not alone decide the fate of matches or whole tournaments. But I can help the team achieve their goal. I am a cog in the command mechanism, but such a cog, without which everything can crumble. To act in the usual style, I must be in good physical shape. Some are forced to stop early, others manage to maintain excellent conditions up to forty. I think my limit is somewhere in between ".
"Sometimes I start to feel like an old man and understand those veterans who, during my youth, constantly grumbled about what had been wrong before. I am sometimes enraged by the current youth, especially its dependence on all sorts of things like Twitter or Instagram. When someone starts broadcasting live from the locker room before the match. I want to take a baseball bat and hit it in the teeth. But I hold back, realizing that every generation has its zamorochki ".
"It seems to me that it's much better if these guys spend time on social networks than squander their money for all sorts of nonsense. When I hear that modern football players earn too much, I reply that this money is paid by commercial structures. Who hope to earn money for us. If they did not make a profit, they would not invest such money in football. Baseball players in America get more, but nobody bothers there. If we judge our salaries by how important football is in today's difficult world, then yes, we earn too much. But I do not agree with those who say that this is easy money ".
"You have to be honest with others and with yourself." "Some people think that my career in Rome was strewn with rose petals, but it's not like that. I also had enough conflicts with coaches and comrades, but I have always been honest with everyone. I often heard that because Zdenek Zeman gave preference not to me, but to Panagiotis Takhtsidis, I did my best to "float" the mentor. It is not true. There were many moments when the outcome of a particular match depended on his resignation. However, all the guys, including myself, fought for him until the last. Yes, they were dissatisfied with their position under Zeman. But he was an absolutely honest man, and he did not consider doing anything with him in the same way as unacceptable ".
"It's silly to ask the coach why he does not let De Rossi out on the field like Zeman, or Totti, like Spalletti. It's like making a child make a choice - who he loves more, mom or dad. The coach is responsible for the result, and he is not an enemy to himself, so that at the expense of the team put someone in the composition or vice versa, leave on the bench. No one can be untouchable, even an idol like Francesco. If he's right, I'm ready to fight for him until my last breath. If not, I'll tell him about it first.. And he does the same ".
"I'm not one of those.
That will conceal anger at someone who scored 300 goals only because he himself is not capable of doing it. I'm not the one who will torment himself for the rest of his life for what he did or did not do. I have always been honest with myself and others. I have not yet said the last word as a player, and although I can not achieve something, I can still dream about the sky-high peaks of the ".
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