Athletic farewell day. Mikel Balenciaga Agur said today on his stage as a lion surrounded in the press room of Lezama by his wife, his little girls, his colleagues, part of the board of directors that the president leads, ernesto valverde and the Txopo Iribar. “I will completely leave Athletic, I tried to give my best, try to help my teammates to achieve what we have achieved, but I will not deceive you, in the end I want to win the Cup, but I I am calm because there are many more years ahead and I look forward to seeing Athletic lift the Cup”, he said.
The winger left after 12 seasons as a lion and 321 games. He still has nine missing this season. The Basque player said he looks strong and is excited to continue playing, although he now prefers to focus on the European goal set at the start of the season. “Now what I am considering is to wage war this month and a half, as I have done these twelve years. We all have in mind the goal of entering Europe. I am convinced that we will do everything possible to achieve this and after that we will talk, but now I think that, I will continue doing what I know best to do, go to Lezama and contribute to the day -day whether on or off the pitch”.
When he came into the 2008-09 season, he was thinking about every day. “The players when we start our heads are short-termism, what I will do in the next game and the next month. We do not think about the afterlife. For me, it is a privilege to be with Athletic in for twelve years, especially what I bring are my colleagues, who are more friends than colleagues. You know, I’m one of those living day by day, living things in the moment and actually from now on I will think about tomorrow, to be able to train and push my teammates in the remaining nine games”, he said. manifested.
The one from Zumarraga left at the age of 35. “Athletic educated me, I developed as a person and as a player. I am so grateful to the club and the people I met that I don’t know how to express it. It has been 12 years of my life that I will always carry them in my heart, I hope that starting next season I will continue to be close to Lezama and be with them”.
What went best and what would you improve? “In any sports career you can improve a lot of things but it’s true that right now I don’t have any bad moments in my mind. We had great moments and failures, but in those failures we learned a lot and this led to with us to achieve the following victories. Everything is positive, everything is joy, but I say it again, I will be calmer when I see that Athletic is back in Europe”, he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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