Ferran Torres He has lived, despite his 23 years, a whole rollercoaster of emotions and stages during his elite career. The Barça footballer sat down on The Wild Project podcast to explain, among other things, the reason for him change of mind this summer, why he considers that last year was the best in his life and the key to birth of the ‘shark’.
The Valencian began by revealing a fact that, because of his sensitivity, marked both before and after his time in the quarry of Valencia: “My parents divorced when I was 12-13 years old and I didn’t know how to deal with it. Together with my entourage we decided that The best thing is to go to the shelter from Valencia with quarry people from outside, a rare case from there. I am ashamed to say why I live with themI have invented that my town (Foios) is further away.”
Ferran spoke about the emotional ups and downs since he arrived at Barça: “The first phase of the signing was very good, the numbers were good, but there came a phase when the Rayo and Eintracht thing happened where it was realized I already lThe manner in which the signing took place was a burden. Criticism rained down on me because of the conditions in which it came, and I wasn’t ready for that pressure. “I got into a loop with no goals or help, it was a very deep pit.”
Torres tried to make a clean slate for next season, but a stitch injury in the preseason cut short his plans. “I think It weighed heavily on my mind throughout last season.though Now I think it’s the best in my life because I learned to know myself, to be mature. I am an indestructible Ferran now, I am above all in self-confidence. It turned me around. If something doesn’t work, you have to keep trying.”
Despite his mental denial, the footballeror do you think you are suffering from depression?, although he acknowledges that the main problem comes from not admitting it’s wrong. “He The first step in solving a problem is admitting you have a problem. Everyone knows it’s not right, took the theme of the psychologist because I realized I needed it. He knows how to get you on your field and start talking, we discovered that I lost the confidence that brought me to the first team. The best thing of all is that the body has a memory and I can recover my way of playing to get out of that vicious circle.”
The winger admitted that before his change of mind he was not immature but He did not take well to the surrounding comments on him.. “I didn’t want to assimilate that I was doing things wrong no matter how much I worked with the psychologist. This summer was the chip change, I started working with the whole team in full. because I thought that If this continues, I will play with my friends forever in Foios.”
And what happened this summer was Ilias Topuria. Ferran Torres sent a message to the fighter who came to him fight in miami during the holidays, and getting to know him and his surroundings ended up changing his life. “I connected with him from the first moment. Before the fight he told me: This first round doesn’t pass. That’s when I thought ugh…I want to be like him. I became a Ferran and I came back as another“
“I talked to my physical trainer to do double session every day, I told my nutritionist that I wanted to lose three kilos, and my physio that I wanted to have two hours of treatment. This is not something that can be discussed. What keeps you in the elite is discipline and perseverance, motivation only lasts for days and will not lead you to big goals. I told them that I would change and that I wanted them with me, in the invisible work.”
AND Topuria is also ‘guilty’ of the shark nickname: “The thing about the shark comes from the fact that I said while eating with the Barça team that in an interview Ilias Topuria responded that here he is the shark, he doesn’t have to fight with the big fish. My thoughts colleagues started giving me shark emoticons on Instagram and the ball got bigger.”
Above all, Ferran insists that he has learned to be patient. When no calm down mark, the world is not ending, because his confidence led him to think that he had done everything possible and that was the way things were. “Um I am very sensitive and have the power to be tight myself, good and bad. Now this moment has come to me I drowned one bad thought with three good ones, I love the Ferran I’m building.”
“Yes If I had met Ferran two years ago I would have slapped him and I would tell him to wake up, he didn’t know what was waiting for him. “I know what it’s like to hit rock bottom and don’t want to touch it again, my head is constantly planning to improve and extend my career as much as possible.”
Source: La Verdad
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