Celtic He faces Atltico on Monday and describes the departure of Luis Surez as a great shit from Barcelona
Iago Aspas poses with Nemeziz boots from Adidas, a brand with which he just signed
Iago Aspas is to Celta what Celta is to Iago Aspas. One and the other are needed. The player missed his team when he was out and the vigus club feels the striker’s absences and the consequences are seen on the pitch. “I don’t move from here anymore. It’s my home and where I play better,” the forward pointed out to MARCA.
An important game is coming for Celta, for Atltico and also for Atltico’s rivals for the League who are waiting for a rojiblanco failure. Yes, I think we have a very good chance. It is true that we have not won several games after hitting a very good streak. We have had a couple of defeats and two consecutive draws. We know that we are going to a complicated field, but it can be added. I think there is still a lot left. Five games ago we were Milan and now we are my people’s team, so to speak. Here you win three games or lose three and with how even it is, everything is equal. We are going to try to give LaLiga excitement. . For Celta it is to receive life in the face of Europe and for LaLiga that it has some emotion again. Of course. It is true that we are in the middle of the table, neither up nor down, but it would be a good touchstone to start adding in a complicated match and also to put more LaLiga equal. How are you after the injury? Every day much better. If it is true that last week I still did not find my football. Physically being a month off for a professional footballer, even if you train and run a lot in those 3-4 weeks, you lose the competition rhythm, you don’t have it and I hope to catch it little by little and especially in the face of a game as competitive as We hope it’s Monday. Nine goals in eighteen games. It is said that Celta depends a lot on Iago and the truth is that the numbers prove it. Well, the numbers are there, they say so, but I think in some game, with me on the pitch, the team’s feelings were bad too. For example, in the game against Villarreal we had very bad feelings. Against Eibar, without me, the team made merits to win and did not succeed. I hope that now, with my return, we will return to the path of victory to have a month like December. On Monday they face Atltico, the LaLiga chief. The truth is that it had always been a competitive team since the arrival of Cholo and this year they have given a twist to that structure and that game. Also because they have huge players. Also, they have Surez, who makes everything that appears near the area go inside. I met him at Liverpool. Yes, a season. The truth is that he was already a born forward, a winner even in the rounds and in the games. He always gave 200 percent. What you see on the field is what you see in training. Did Luis Surez help you on your arrival in Liverpool to a new competition, an unknown language? Yes the truth is that I do, because one comes from abroad, without knowing the language to a new club … It was not easy. There were six or seven of us who spoke Spanish and Portuguese and we understood each other quite well. We set up our own commune to have dinners and meals with the families. And they keep marking … Well me at Liverpool not so much, but then yes. Did you expect what Luis Surez is giving to Atltico? He has always been a forward to score many goals, I think it was a “shit” on the part of Barcelona, but hey they were also a bit drowned by the issue of the salary limit. Atltico took advantage, was very fast and signed a great striker. In fact, many points that the team obtained are thanks to him and his success. What was not a “shit” was his return to Celta. What was going through your head in those moments outside? It is difficult to explain because whenever you go out to another club, Liverpool at the time, you do so with great expectations, which I had hinted at in my time at Celta. Then there are circumstances that are not as you think and nothing happens as you think. I am very happy to be at home, with my family, here everything is going for me and it is true that it is easier to get all my football here in my land and in the team of my heart. In recent summers rumors have always appeared and there was even talk of Real Madrid as a possible destination … It is true that there have been various rumors and interests, but I have always been very happy at home. I went out and it did not go as well as I expected. I needed to go back to my place of comfort to feel like a footballer again and regain all that confidence and I think these last five or six seasons the numbers are there to prove it. The card says he’s 33, but his game looks 25 … I’m a born winner, I don’t like to lose even in training games. I’m a heavyweight, I’m always there with the rivals, with the teammates, with the referees, I really like to win. Yes it is true that I prepare day by day for the weekend and I do not see the end of my career very close. I started playing elite football a little late and that makes me enjoy everything every day without thinking about tomorrow. And suddenly a brand like Adidas appears and adds you to its payroll … Very happy to join this great family and that they have bet on me for several seasons means that I am doing well. For Celta it is being a strange season. Ten days ago we were last, five days ago we were almost in Europe and now we are in the middle zone. Coudet is the same style as the Cholo. His maxim is to live from day to day, always pushing, seeking maximum performance. Are we going to see Aspas at Celta until the end? S. There are two more seasons left on the contract and we hope it can be extended. I’m not moving from here. I read that you love football from before, that of the street. There are not so many children playing in the street anymore. There are game consoles, computers, tablets … The children leave school and do not go to play in the park. It rains and the child can catch a cold. Parents now protect children more. I leave school at half past two. I was going home to eat and didn’t show up until eight. It came to the top of mud from playing on land. Now everything is schools of football and synthetic grass. I only played grass when I joined Celta. Do you think you can recover in some way, that football returns to the streets? It is difficult, now there are also many classes in the afternoon. When I was studying there weren’t so many schools in the afternoon, apart from the private ones. We children spent more hours on the streets. Now, too, there are more football schools and he trains on synthetic grass pitches. I remember training on the beach, on dirt fields and when I was lucky once a year in the season, we would train on the natural grass field. What do you think of the Selection? As you know, you claim that you are playing football well. I try to do it in the best possible way in the team to try to have a chance again. Hope is the last thing you lose. Keep fighting and keep scoring goals so that the coach tries to give me another chance. Do you have any kind of contact with Luis Enrique? Have you been called from the Federation or is that not part of Luis Enrique’s way of acting? I don’t think it is in his way of acting. He already called me in other calls. He has always been very close and very demanding as he is from day to day. It is their way of being. A deal like I could have with other coaches. The competition is being great, as it shows that in the last game that Spain played it was very good and it thrashed Germany. In the National Team there is always a very high level. There are colleagues who have been doing very well in their teams, others who deserve opportunities or want them as is my case. Put yourself in the shoes of the coach and make a list of 22 or 23 … Everyone has their opinions, they will put a goalkeeper or another or a forward or another. Who would you take with you from your team? To Hugo Mallo as a reward for how well he has been doing in recent seasons. What is left for you to do in football? What challenges do you have? Going back to the National Team and getting a title with Celta that fills the showcase, I think it would be important on an individual level and on a collective level.
