Jeremy Mathieuretired at the age of 40, played for FC Barcelona between 2014 and 2017, the phase of Luis Enrique as a coach. In fact, the Asturian coach was his great supporter in 2014 to the point that he demanded his signing, even though he had a contract with Valencia. The Barça club had to pay 20 million of his termination clause and offered him an improved signing compared to what he received for four seasons and an optional (his contract did not expire). As a Barça player, he won the great titles of his career: two Leagues, a Champions League, three Cups, a European Super Cup, a Club World Cup and a Spanish Super Cup. Although he played only five friendlies with the French national team and his international profile was cautious, he had a leading role in his first two campaigns, somewhat less in the third, despite competing in Jordi Alba as a left hand behind and with Piqué, Mascherano or Umtiti as central. And despite everything, when ‘Bein Sports France’ asked him about his experience under the command of Luis Enrique He prefers to remember the bad.
“We would say that our experience is mixed. He is the one who likes me and we met secretly to agree on the signing. He is a coach who does not talk to you much and does not give you much confidence. I play a lot with confidence and, sometimes, I played games important things and then he was on the bench. So, in reality, he needs continuity. That’s what I don’t understand. But he never explained to me why. Maybe not he understood. there was time, I didn’t know…”, he recalled Mathieu. at a time when in France they usually fire Luis Enrique taking advantage of any argument because of his aloof relationship with the media.
“Maybe, it really is. No, I don’t know why, I think that’s how it works.” Luis Enrique. And that’s how it happened. Trouble in Paris? Maybe. If you eventually change your way of being and doing things? I do not know. It was the same with us at Barça and in the end I had a bad time,” he admitted.
Mathieu He finished his professional career at Sporting de Portugal, a club where he played between 2017 and 2020, winning the Cup and League Cup (he already had one with Sochaux). An injured knee prompted him to hasten his farewell, but he still competed until a few months ago in Luynes Sports, from the regional category of France.
Source: La Verdad
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