Alejandro Grimaldo He thanked his coach, Xabi Alonsoand his club, the Bayer Leverkusenwhere he leads the Bundesligahis arrival in the Spanish team in “an incredible year” in which he fulfilled “a dream.”
“It’s a very special moment, an incredible year that with the call from the national team turns into a great year, it’s a dream to be here,” he acknowledged on his first day as an international.
“Xabi Alonso He has helped me a lot, he is an incredible coach who brings out the best in me. With the help of you and the team, striving to be at the best level, I had a chance to get into the national team. “It’s time to enjoy and make the most of it,” he added to Federation media.
Grimaldo reached the national team at the age of 28, after growing up at Benfica for seven years, before becoming one of the team’s great sensations. Leverkusen.
“Football usually takes you on different paths, it made me fall on this one, but I’m very happy with everything that happened for me at different clubs and now I have to continue on working. I am very happy where I am and thank you for Leverkusen I have a chance to go to the national team. It’s very important to me,” he confessed.
He remembered his beginnings, in the subsidiary of Barcelona, in the difficult moments he has overcome. “I don’t think it will put more pressure on you but, probably, I made my debut very young and as soon as I did I had a serious injury. I think it has its positive and negative points, but I don’t think about that. I enjoyed football from day one and “I still do”
“Today I remember my girlfriend and my daughter, who will be one year old. I will be away from them for a week, but it will be for a good cause. And I also remember my parents, who always supported me since I was little. and followed everywhere, which was not easy,” he admitted.
Pending every call from Luis de la Fuente, knowing he was in the final prelist and had a chance to be new, Grimaldo said how he learned about the call.
“We’re at the airport on our way home Qarabagthat we play there at European League. The flight was delayed a bit and this gave me enough time to see the announcement before take off but not to talk to family and friends. When I arrived, my phone was full of messages. Crazy,” he recalls fondly.
Source: La Verdad
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