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Godín: the suffering of not being able to go downstairs, his response to hanging up his boots and a particular memory of Messi – Updated news from Uruguay and the world

days ago Diego Godin He showed his intention and even said that he had finished his cycle with the Uruguayan team. She had said it in a note to Ovation a week ago and repeated it again this Monday. He also spoke of the pain he suffered during the injury that took him so much effort to recover in time for Qatar 2022Who had a harder time scoring (Messi or Cristiano) and who had more run-ins with.

The Rosario confessed the suffering caused by the injury to the point of not letting him enjoy everyday life. “I trained in pain and the tendon kept degenerating, it kept injuring me. At one point I had to stop in Argentina because I literally couldn’t run. I couldn’t go down the stairs of my house. I was screwed,” Pharaoh explained in an interview with F90 del ESPN.

Regarding how he lived his arrival in Argentine soccer to play in Velez Sarsfield He expressed that “he still hasn’t been able to enjoy it. I arrived last year with patellar tendinitis, suffering a lot. I didn’t want to stop because we were screwed in the Qualifiers and it was putting patches on a chronic injury that made me suffer a lot. I couldn’t train, it’s like a knife”.

“It crossed my mind, of course,” Godín responded to the question if it crossed his mind to retire after what it was like to suffer this injury. “It crossed my mind to say, what do I do? What happens is that the Qualifiers emptied me, then came a change of coach, the departure of Maestro Tabárez, which was very hard. He thought about the national team and he didn’t think about me. That made me think. That’s why I took some time to fill myself up and come back. I want to enjoy myself and I felt obliged, responsible and grateful to go back to Vélez and be myself again,” said the man from Rosario who confesses that he has taken a few days of vacation to be with family and friends and thus rest.

At 36 years old, Pharaoh believes that it is time to put an end to it, or perhaps it is a full stop. “The national team is a stage that has ended for me. I feel that it is a moment of generational change, I see that there are guys who come from below and who deserve an opportunity. What I do not want to be in the national team is a stopper for others, or make the technical director feel an obligation. Sometimes there is pressure for the coach because of his career, because he is the captain of the team, because of his name, there may be some pressure and it shouldn’t be like that. I put my country and my country first selection,” he said.

The sky-blue captain believes that “one never retires from the national team; that if his country needs him he will be there”, and added: “If the coach believes that I can lend a hand and he needs me, I would never say no as long as he continues playing, but I have to be realistic with my context”.

Godín on Messi: “There was a time when we hit him and he didn’t fall”

Asked about who was more difficult to stop on the court, if Lionel Messi o Cristiano Ronaldothe Uruguayan recalled the odyssey that was to face the Flea in Europe.

“For me it is more difficult to mark Messi. We are contemporaries. All my time in Europe I had the bad luck of coinciding with both of them. They took several titles from us at Atlético de Madrid. Without Messi at Barcelona or Cristiano at Real Madrid we would have some League safer and maybe some Champions League. We managed to compete with the generation of these monsters”, explained Godín.

And he added: “Messi’s talent, with or without spaces, the way a player turns and takes off and the vision of the game to put in a pass is different. Sometimes you don’t get to catch it. There was a time when we hit him and he didn’t fall Look, we were going to look for him… He fell and got up, but he only got angry if you were in a bad mood.”

Asked if La Pulga had gotten angry at some point, Godín said: “I don’t remember if Leo got angry with me. I had more anger with Luis (Suárez) than with him.”

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