The Argentinian Nico Gonzalez who arrived this summer at Juventus from Fiorentina, stated on Thursday that he is in favor of the current saturated calendar because “so many games are good for the team.”
At a time of maximum tension between players and institutions due to the number of games per season, Nico Gonzalez He avoided himself from the recent statements of the Spaniard Rodri, a player of Manchester City, or the French Jules Koundéfrom Barcelona, where they raised the possibility of a strike by the players.
“For us, it’s great”
“For us it is great. We are all young players who want to play football and so many games are good for the team. But as mister said (Thiago Motta)“We have to eat well, rest well and sleep a lot,” he said. Nico González, 26 years old, in his official presentation as a new Juventus player.
However, FIFPro, the international union of professional footballers, denounced in a report published on September 5 the high workload of the players in an excessive calendar that in 2025 will be more harmful, the growing interference in their private life and the lack of attention. they receive from football’s governing bodies.
A balance in which the organization emphasized that there are players who enjoy only 12% of the calendar year as free time and that there will be footballers who will play more than 80 games per season in all competitions , including matches with national teams.
The Juventus winger also commented in his presentation that he knows the number of Argentines who have played for the ‘Vecchia Signora’, since Carlos Tevez to Gonzalo Higuain go through the recent Paulo Dybala or Leandro Paredesbut his idol Angel Di Maria.
Say Mary, the idol
“‘El Fideo’ is an idol for me, on and off the field. I met him in the national team and he acted like a normal person to me when he could have been a god,” he noted.
The new signing of the Turin team, a former Fiorentina player, took the position on the right wing, but is ready to play in other positions: “In football the important thing is to play. And if I have to play as a goalkeeper, then I will play as a goalkeeper.”
Regarding the reasons that led him to choose the path of the ‘bianconeri’, he made it clear that he had no doubts: “When Juve comes you don’t have to think, just say yes.”
In addition, he featured excellent level of Serbian Dusan Vlahovic, with him at Fiorentina: “He has improved a lot. When I saw him these days, I said: ‘This one is very good’. He is always positive, he helps the team and he is a great player who deserves must be the best.”
Source: La Verdad
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