Vicky Losada he was unable to play at the Camp Nou in his final season with an FC Barcelona shirt, a club he left in June 2021 to join Manchester City. A few months earlier, on January 6, the Barça team jumped from the Estadi Johan Cruyff to Camp Nou to play a league match against Espanyol on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the debut of the pioneers. The Barça team won 5-0 without an audience due to the restrictions caused by a pandemic that definitely prevented Egarense from playing, with the coronavirus. In the following seasons, there was already an audience, big parties came to the Camp Nou already Vicky Losada he enjoys being far away, thinking that he will never live it down. However, in January he signed for Roma and the Champions League draw led to a Champions League quarter-final tie against Barça. The great captain, at 32, will experience the magic of the Camp Nou, albeit with another shirt.
“I left Barça with a small thorn in my chest that I thought I would never get rid of, it was a girl’s dream that I thought would never come true. From now on I have to believe in destiny because I can do it I was unlucky not to be able to play at Camp Nou due to having Covid and life and Roma gave me another chance to step on Camp Nou“, explained this Tuesday in the press room of the Camp Nou in the preview of the return after 0-1 for Barça in the first leg at the Olympic, where Losada he came on as a substitute from the bench in the second half.
Regarding the reception he expected, he said that “this is a special day for me, I have been doing emotional work for a month so that it does not affect me, I have received many messages, I am very grateful and I always will be, but I try to think about football and at the same time enjoy because the emotional part will be something unforgettable for me”.
He recalled that “many teammates are my real friends, I want to focus on football because I also have the experience of that final of Champions he is new lions where you don’t stop thinking about him in the days before and in the end you come tired. That’s why I try to think about the game, and about sports. If I play, I’ll find out tomorrow.”
He considered about the tie that “it’s open. We’ve done it a good rank and a good first leg and we have to play a very serious game if we want to have a chance to go through.”
He does not rule out surprise, although always with humility: “You have to be realistic, the Italian league is one world and Europe is another, this is our first year and we have to go with humility, but also at work because we have possibilities and we cannot waste all the efforts we made in Italy”. He did make a contribution from experience: “The boat It’s a good team but we have to go with guts and personality. I think that when we get the ball we can play a little bit more. When Barça give us the ball we have to try to play like we do in Italy because they suffer without the ball.”
He clarified that “there is no magic potion to win the boat, is the best team in the world in possession and in attack. But the other day at Olympics We saw that we were good in transition and playing in the back. We have to detonate our weapons. And you have to defend very well because they are level players. In Rome it was the first time the Olympic Games opened and there was a lot of emotion on the pitch, tomorrow we have to take some of the emotionalism away and put more of our heads in the game.”
Personally, he appreciated Roma’s commitment to the women’s game: “I haven’t been here for a long time, but I think the bases are very good, in the Olympic it was noted that we had personality. We do lack experience. But the mentality must be to go win , not to see what happens. And that is what allows you to grow. There is talent, there is passion, we are a family, as seen in the first leg. People do not know what the fans of RomeThat was one of the best moments of my career the other day. It’s a huge step so that all the girls who want to be footballers can do it”
And he pointed out that “I lived in Barça for a short time after many years and I come from England. In Rome We are working on other concepts and I have to adapt quickly. The coach and the girls help me and it’s easy to play because they all love the ball, have mobility and freedom of expression in the game, values that represent me. I’m in the right place.”
Source: La Verdad
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