Yesterday, Andrés Iniesta said goodbye as a professional footballer after a 22-year career. The former player of Barça, among other clubs, referred in an interview given to COPE to the reception that San Mamés fans give him every time he goes to play in Bilbao after Mateu Lahoz showed the red card in central defender Amorebieta after the entrance to the red and white fans understood that he was pretending.
“These are things, they are things that happen. At that moment many things were distorted and obviously I would like it to happen because no one likes to whistle. I would like to take advantage of the moment for that moment. Staying there. For example now Gurpegui was there (during his farewell presentation) and Raúl García couldn’t make it the other day,” he indicated for the first time.
Iniesta immediately clarified that “the respect for Athletic for me was brutal. It was something that remained there, without further ado. It was a situation that for me on a personal level was not pleasant, but sometimes these things happen and people “have their own way of seeing it.” Almost at the end of this interview on the Cope program ‘El partezo’, the former player responded to the multiple choice question about on whether he holds a grudge against San Mamés that “no, it’s something I want to do in a different way.”
Iniesta himself clarified in his book ‘The Play of My Life’ that “The public is sovereign, as they say, but I am not going to deny that for me what happens in San Mamés is not pleasant. The whistles that it happens because of a situation where I’m not reasonable I mean as a professional footballer I accept whistling or having harsh words thrown at me, without crossing the border of education, because we all had already. to endure it to a point of sports logic”.
The native of Fuentalbilla added in the said book that “I heard all kinds of opinions about what was happening in Bilbao. I just want to say here that I did not try to deceive anyone to hurt a rival, not even on that occasion. I have always had great respect for Athletic, its players and its history because my paternal grandfather, may he rest in peace, was a member of Athletic; because my father was an Athletic fan in his youth (when he is a footballer they called him Dani because he played like Dani of Athletic.
Source: La Verdad
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