Photos of Athletic players praying the Our Father before the start of the match against Madrid caused controversy. Unai Simón understands this matter “I have always characterized the wardrobe and experienced it as something personal, something private, something that is for us. Above all because when you go out to a game you need your rituals and your concentration. And seeing cameras recording how you put on your shin guards, tie your boots or pray to a saint… In the end, we gamers have many hobbies that are not we want to go out. I don’t like it, I don’t feel comfortable. This is our sacred moment and someone is invading it, but I am not one to say that a camera does not enter the dressing room”.
Beyond last season’s performance, Unai Simón clarified that “everyone inside and outside this locker room knows that the goal of this squad is to reach the highest possible position, which is in Europe. The last years if where the speech of the president, coach and captain was not made, inside the locker room we have such a desire, the goal. If not said this year? It is for something that is not considered as such, but we in the locker room is ambitious, even if people or the press can say that we are not, that we are conformists. All these things offend us and the truth is that people who do not understand Athletic or does not understand football that it speaks in this way”.
Source: La Verdad
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