Nayim: “One moment is changing your life”

On the occasion of 77th Great Sports Gala, Mohamed Ali Amar58 years and known worldwide as Nayimvisited writing of World of sport. The one who is a player of FC Barcelona, Tottenham and Very zaragozaamong others, he remembered his passage The masia And also, logical, the extraordinary goal scored from the middle of the field to the last second of expanding the final final Golment from Europe that Aragonese won the Arsenal In it Princes Park of Paris (2-1) on May 10, 1995. This 2025 will be 30 years old from that work.

What is Nayim doing now?

Now I was leaking my hand at the club of my land, Ceuta. I am as a basic football coordinator, trying to educate my experience with the kids to see if we are getting a player for the first team. Although the idea is to develop them especially as people and that I, to help the young people of my land want to devote themselves to it. Try to plant what I learned for example in the masia, when I was young. All the amounts taught me there.

I think that returning to Barcelona brings you a lot of memories …

Many and good. Very good time at Base football, in Masia, with Guillermo Amor, with Jordi Roura, with Pep Guardiola, with a cold, with a career … I can name you people who have been important at that time for me Because they helped me when I arrived from Ceuta, a boy who had never left. The memories were amazing because I was lucky to play with great players at that time and learned from great coaches as Vilaseca, Pujol, Charly … This is an amazing time.

And he grew up with football values ​​that always described Barça, right?

Certainly. Always looking for people with good ball treatment, people who understand the game in a certain way … eventually they have been -summarized in both. Reach the goal and put a goal and defend and not put you, but reach a different way from the remaining clubs, trying to copy them. But it’s not easy, because in the end you have to do it from the base and it made it to Johan’s arrival, asking that everyone play the same, from Prebenjamin to the first team. That takes time and Barça collects the fruits of all that work.

Do you contact?

Yes. I just talked to Goiko. In Jordi I haven’t talked for a long time, with Pep … I greeted the championship last season. It is always good to keep contacts with people who have been important in your life. Especially if you are young and you start with this business, you need a lot of support, and I have in the farmhouse of both teammates and clubs.

From here you went to England to Tottenham where, if I remember correctly, you were the first Spanish playing in England.

Yes. I didn’t know it before. They confirmed it later. I was fortunate that Terry Venables were here at Barça, then signed for Tottenham, I didn’t belong to Cruyff at that time … and I didn’t even think about it. Because in the end, a soccer player should be played to play, not sitting on the bench during most of his career. Even at another club. That happened to me. Fortunately I played in a championship and a country that lived with football in a very, very, very good way.

Where you have a song dedicated to Tottenham followers, right?

The opportunity is that the song follows the goal I marked with Zaragoza in the final recopa. Arsenal-Tottenham is the derby of northern London, it is like an Atlético de Madrid-real Madrid, like a barça-Spanish, a very important derby. And obviously, when Tottenham plays against the arsenal they sing in the arsenals: ‘Nayim, from the middle of the field’ in English, ‘Nayim, from half line’. They are anecdotes. It was the joy of a hobby that was glad that I put a goal on the maximum rival of Tottenham.

Then you got to Real Zaragoza in an amazing -spectacular group.

That always commented. When they say ‘Nayim’s goal’, I always say ‘that purpose is all that group’. The group allowed me to come to that moment which was very important in my life. That group is still amazing. This is the key. The costume is key to football. If you have a great costume, things are usually fixed. Because when things go wrong if costumes are united. If this is the other way around it is very difficult.

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The emotional moment with Teresa Perales

During the 77 Great Sports sports gala, one of the winners was Zaragozana Teresa Perales, winning 28 swimming medals at the Paralympic Games and Princess Award of Asturias de los Deportes. During the awards, Mag Larí, one of the events of the event with Anna Simon, said that as a follower of Real Zaragoza, they had a surprise for her. On the giant screen of the Lalau de Congresos Hall, the purpose of Nayim on May 10, 1995 in Paris was to be screen. The former soccer player greeted those present from the plate.

How many times have you asked you about the goal?

Almost every day. If you don’t remember mobile, many people remind you. One moment changes your life. It was a moment recorded in the minds of many fans, especially Zaragoocistas, but also in the world of football in general, as the type goals were marked by many, but in a final and in the last second of expansion and that The rival team did not give the time to get the center … it was marked, especially for a zaragoza that was not uncommon for the upcoming European Finals. At that time, Zaragoza was the team worldwide.

How do you remember the past years?

Too much joy, especially because I made many people happy. Well, we did. Eventually I marked the goal, but it was the group that made many people happy. In my case, especially to the nearest family, especially my father. This is for me the guidance of my career. Thinking about making my father happy, to make me proud. And most of all the people who at that time followed Zaragoza and wanted to win.

You also have a street dedicated to Zaragoza …

That is incredible. A person in life, for an action that is part of my job, something many people have done … That’s what football means for a city like Zaragoza. That moment where we achieved a title in that way was something incredible. And the truth seems to be unparalleled -Believe that being in life is that they put a street with your name for an action.

Later, as the second coach of Real Zaragoza you have the privilege of measure the Barça de messi. What did you think about?

After the game in Zaragoza, where they drove me away by protesting the referee, I talked to PEP back then and said it was very difficult to win. Even if we make the perfect game, you have customs players. In fact, when the game was complicated in Barça, they gave Leo and Leo the ball and dedicated occasions or marking goals. And that’s what happened. And Pep told me: ‘They call me a good coach and like that, but if I didn’t have that kid, it wouldn’t be where I was.

How do you see the current Barça?

It’s funny. Ultimately, young people are lucky, because of the economic situation and the club’s economic problem, they rely on them. And Kapana -excited for culés to see young people competing against the great Europe. This young person with more years of experience has been thinking of Barça who won titles at the European level. They are very talented, with many personality. Personally surprised at Cubarsí, I was surprised at Casadó, many players surprised me … lamine them too. What do young players pay at this good level. The word is fun. There is a brilliant future for the club, for players.

Finally. What have and future projects you have?

Help in my land. I was a little tired of traveling and I was already in the homeland, Ceuta. And I’m trying to help the club from humility, starting at the base and see if in the future more Ceuta players come out, like Anuar, now in Valladolid, and Pirri, Migueli … Players who can be to the highest level and bring the city name across Europe.