“People want to go back to work on Monday to proudly talk about La Real”

Sander Westerveld He remembers his stay at Real Sociedad with great fondness, even though it was relatively short-lived. He played 82 games, scoring 110 goals between December 22, 2001 and May 23, 2004, a period in which he was runner-up in the Liga with Real Sociedad. “That season was the best year of my career,” said the 47-year-old tulip goalkeeper in an interview for his country’s ‘Staantribune’ magazine.

It was a happy year in Gipuzkoa, where the problems seemed less for some realistic fans who caressed until the last day the possibility of celebrating a Liga title after 20 years. Westerveld is very graphic in the story of that indelible 2022/03: “San Sebastián has improved thanks to the performance of Real Sociedad, indicates the goalkeeper. “More and more scarves, shirts and flags are displayed in the balcony and they cheered us on the street One of the best things I saw was the local journalist’s column entitled ‘Never Again Monday’ Back then, almost no one in San Sebastián looked forward to Monday: the start of the work or school week . week and they look forward to it. friday People want to go back to work or school on Monday to proudly talk about Real. It’s great that as a football club you can produce something like this”.

t-shirt aging

Westerveld He keeps some of his shirts from that time in his house in Hilversum and also one of the darko kovacevic, even as advertising falls. His memories flood him as he looks back over the past 20 years. He admits that “leaving Liverpool upset me”, won five titles last year, and is pleased to have got along with the goalkeeping coach who trained him: “I worked with the best goalkeeping coach I’ve ever met: Xavier Mancisidore . is now included Pep Guardiola at Man City. If I had experienced this five years ago, I would have gained more myself.” And it is, in his opinion, “I have goalkeeper coaches who read everything from a book. Mancisitor I had custom exercises. Thanks to him I learned to make an intermediate step in free throws. That way I got one foot deeper into the corner. Mancisitor I also studied penalties”.

The Dutch goalkeeper remembers he stopped a penalty Fernando Torreswho brought Madrid de los Galacticos to their knees in Anoeta (4-2) and also defeated Barcelona de louis van gaal and their countrymen Boers, Kluivert, In another country Y Cocu“.