Raúl García is the third player in LaLiga history with the most games played. Only Zubi and Joaquín were better than him. Quite a veteran.
Do the guys in the locker room listen to you?
I try not to talk to them too much because we live in a society where if you talk all day, you don’t get listened to much; but I feel respected and they know my experience. Yes, I think they listen to me.
Do your opponents respect you more?
Maybe they know me better, it’s been so many years. They respect me. I have an external image many times different from what a colleague has who knows how I am on a daily basis.
He has three yellow cards…
I’m too restrained (jokes). If I were to count the cards I’ve had in my entire career, about half were for protest and many of them knew they were going to take it away from me. There are times when you need to do this. The years also give you another kind of face, to see things in a different way, although it is impossible for me to lose that because I am like that and this is my way of being.
Has Valverde changed?
I will say no. He is a person who at the group and management level is very smart, knows how to do it and what I can tell him about the experience he has at the sports level. A perfect coach to be here. In the end, unfortunately for all of us, we are valued for results, not just for what you work for every day. In that sense, football is very unfair because you can be a scoundrel and the week is fine, you win and everyone praises you, and yet, when things go wrong, you can be the greatest professional in the world seemingly out of nowhere. use.
Is there a picture with Zubi and Joaquín together in San Mamés?
It didn’t match. I really appreciate long-term races because I know how hard it is. In football, what you did yesterday didn’t help much because tomorrow is another exam. Zubi’s 622 games in the league have an added value, a terrible merit, because now, with five changes, it is easier to reach those numbers.
Source: La Verdad
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