Canales: “I’m proud of our fans for cheering for Navas”

Sergio Channels, who was called back by the Spanish team after two years, appreciated the recent achievements of Real Betis in an interview with zero wave: “Getting into the Europa League for the third year in a row is very important and a big consolidation. At group level, we are looking at what we have in our hands: getting into Europe, trying to make the jump to the Champions League, continue to grow…”, indicated the Spaniard, who does not believe that comparisons with eternal rivals are productive: “Whatever he does to the other is out of our hands”.

“It’s a strange time”

channels He lived through a particularly difficult year, in which he suffered the first dismissals of his career and is still carrying a four-game ban -of which he served only one- for talking about Mateu Lahoz, sanctioned that the execution was stopped in the way of preserving ordinary justice: “This is a strange time. I need to improve many things. Mateu’s time was difficult. I have a lot of respect for him and I wish him the best. We all have to improve and that there is dialogue between the two parties. This is a difficult situation for me. We never talked about it again. The respect is always there, a few years ago we changed our shirts”, pointed out the Betic player.

channels the tribute to the party came alive passionately Joaquin last week and left the entire field applauding the Sevilla player Jesus Navaswho is now his teammate in the national team, where he returned after a long absence: “I felt very proud of our fans for the ovation they gave to Navas, they know how to clearly distinguish what the competition is from in what was happening that day, what In the end it was a party”, he points out.

Cantabrian also refers to goodbye to Joaquin Sanchez: “Everybody loved Joaquín, and he earned it. That’s how you see him. Without playing much it has been very important and it will continue to help us a lot”.