“At that time many things were bent and nobody wanted to blow the whistle. They understood a party action and I also made some irrelevant statements. “I want to seize the moment to try to stay there.”
This is how Andrés Iniesta expressed himself in the early hours of Wednesday on the radio program ‘El partezo’, of COPE. His answer was due to a question about the treatment given to him by Athletic fans after an incident with Amorebieta in a Liga match played in Bilbao at the end of September 2010. The red-and-white centre-back was sent off for a harsh tackle with his feet by in front of the then Barça player who Mateu Lahoz considered red and San Mamés an exaggeration on the part of the Barcelona player. Later some statements by the footballer himself saying that “for me playing in Bilbao is the same as in the field of Atlético de Madrid” did not help to reduce the tension either.
Iniesta clarified this time that “my respect for Athletic is brutal.” Anyone who has scored a goal worth a World Cup and celebrates it with a shirt that says “We are always with Dani Jarque” and who Gurpegi and Raúl García are in his farewell has no doubts. Sea hairs.
Source: La Verdad
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