to understand the statements of Giovanni Moreno in which he said he wants to be a champion and retire, you have to be in his shoes.
The Segovian already has his economic future assured. He came to Nacional with the intention of collaborating, but criticism rained down on him at the start of the campaign, without analyzing that he needed time to adapt to perform. He acknowledged that he rushed to play and that he wasn’t ready, but he took the criticism in a good way and upped his game.
So many pundits analyze his words, but they also understand that football is changeable. “The most important thing is now, I had already contemplated playing this semester and becoming champion. I tell my teammates that I’m champion and I’m going on vacation for life. I only think about this moment and that is what I have in my head”.
In front of that sentence, the ex-lateral of Nacional, Gildardo Gómez, indicated that the personal desire to be a champion is noticeable, a goal, but you have to remember that life is not linear and neither are people.
“Today I can have one objective and tomorrow another, if he ends up as champion and he looks useful, he will surely rethink his decision and the team will do its part to keep him going”. For Gómez, Gio is a player with a lot of quality and if he is physically well he could continue another semester or a year at the club.
“The ideal retirement for me would be in June, to be able to retire with the title as I dreamed of it and fulfill that goal that, until now, has never been given to me.”
Regarding this reasoning, another ex-footballer from Nacional, Oswaldo Mackenzieindicated that it is a very personal decision and a dilemma that only the footballer can decide.
“If he becomes champion and retires, it can be said that he left through the big door, but if he becomes champion, he continues and it does not go well for him in the Copa Libertadorespeople are going to stay with that last image, because in football it’s time to revalidate things every day,” he added.
“I feel like in my first stage in Nacional, happy to be here, to take on the finals again. That makes me feel alive and happy. As I got better, people noticed that dedication and the only thing I do is thank them because they receive me very well and that makes me give myself a little more and return that love to them on the field”, was another of the Moreno’s statement.
Facing this topic sports psychologist Luis Alfonso Sosasays that decisions are made from thought and determination.
“When they are from thought they are firmer, but when they are from determination they are more variable. In that sense, one can set a goal like Gio’s. What you have to look at is where that decision is made from.”
Sosa explained that not everything that is said should be taken literally. “When things are taken literally and then the opposite happens, we begin to make a very serious mistake and that is that we are always judging. We never give the other the option of stopping along the way and going back. That leads us to be unfair when a person changes his decision for many reasons that he is entitled to.”
So we will have to wait, first if Nacional is champion and then if Gio Moreno sticks to his decision to say goodbye to football or not.
