Iker Muniain assures that the viralization of an image of him smoking in Ibiza “goes beyond a simple cigar”

After more than a week of the start of the preseason, Athletic Club captain Iker Muniain appeared last Thursday before the media. The rojiblanco player, who joined the group for the first time yesterday after overcoming various muscular problems that prevented him from playing the Copa del Rey final against Barcelona one hundred percent, fully addressed the controversial image broadcast on social networks in the month June in which he appeared smoking a cigar during a meal in Ibiza with some teammates.

Despite the fact that at first he assured that “I would not have to give even half an explanation of what I do in my private life”, the Iruña footballer did not shy away from giving his point of view on the matter. Muniain explained that at a certain point he decided to light a cigar “with the bad luck” that a person photographed him. The rojiblanco midfielder considered that this cigar does not condition his performance and affirmed that the viralization that was given to that image “goes beyond a simple cigar.” “It is the anger that people have that we have not been able to win one of the Cup finals or both months ago. If that had happened, maybe I would have a mountain of cigar boxes here and you wouldn’t even be able to see me. But since that did not happen, people unleash their anger with that, “the Txantrea man replied to the journalist.

Image in which Muniain lights a cigar during a meal in Ibiza. /

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Muniain was hurt by the comments of several fans who criticized him for not being “a good professional” or for not deserving to be Athletic’s captain, among others: “I don’t accept that anyone comes to teach me what it is to defend this club and to wear this bracelet. I’ve been here for 16 years. I have gone through all the lower categories, I have gone through difficult times, I train in the afternoons voluntarily … Nobody has to teach me what it is to represent this club, “he said.