“From 0 to 100.” Nico Paz speaks on DSports Radio. At 19 years old, this sums up the frenzy that his life became since Argentina called him up for the first time. “I was in the youth team and from one day to the next I got the call from the National Team. Then I went up to Castilla, which is a different football. Within a year I was in the first team, I made my debut and I even scored a goal. “I’m still assimilating what’s happening to me.” Nico, who has alternated the stripes of star, and top scorer (nine goals), of Castilla with the role of advanced student of La Fábrica. In preseason, in the United States, he dazzled everyone. Or rather, he kept doing it. But it was this season when he tasted minutes (127′) with the seniors. With that goal that he talks about, savior against Naples, how he is icing on the cake. With skyrocketing relevance, he has just signed with Adidas as one of their emblems of the future. He will also be from Argentina. And from there, summoned by Mascherano for the Olympics, he has x-rayed his present, his past or why he opted for the albiceleste instead of Spain.
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“I was born in Spain. I love both countries, but in the end I decided to represent Argentina. I think it is the country that represents me the most, because of how football is experienced and because of my father, who is proud to follow in his footsteps. He played Olympic Games and a World Cup. It is a pride to follow in his footsteps,” he contextualizes. Because Nico follows in the footsteps of Pablo Paz. Much more offensive in his football than his father, a center back who won silver in Atlanta 1996 and a quarter-finalist in the 1998 World Cup in France, with notable time for Tenerife, where the now Castillista was born. A dad with experience, who shows him the path to follow, but without outlining it: “He is an advisor, he has lived this world, he knows more than anyone. But he leaves me alone, he lets me decide, to do what he feels. He does not incite me to decisions, he leaves me free.”
“For Messi to play (the Games) would be to close everything. For us kids, it would be a dream.”
Nico Paz, on DSports Radio
Nico’s summer depends on another choice, in this case of Mascherano and Real Madrid. Because he is clear that he longs to be in Paris: “I come from more calls, from a few games. I have a clear idea. I feel good with the style we have on the field. It would be a dream for me to be in the Olympic Games, I would love it. My father was able to play it in Atlanta ’96 and it would be a dream. We will have to see how the season ends, if he calls me Masche and if he leaves the club for me… ”. Although he does not end the dream with traveling to the Olympic event, he also slipped that he would love to do it with a particular soccer player: “Messi playing would be to close everything. It will depend on whether he is willing and the calendar, on how he arrives. For us kids it would be a dream.” And some other names also appeared in the conversation: “Excluding Messi, which is another case, I really like Di María and Dybala, who are left-footed like me. They have a lot of quality and I have always liked them.”
“The World Cup was incredible, being able to see Messi lift the World Cup was incredible. I experienced it in a strange way because we were watching the game on a bus, almost everyone from Madrid, from Castilla, most of them were with France and I was having a bad time. We arrived in Madrid at half-time with the game more or less on track and I saw him at the residence with the other kids from the quarry, most of them were with France and some with Argentina. I had a bad time, a lot of nerves and God wanted us to win,” he said regarding the final against Mbappé’s France.
His present at Real Madrid
All of this in a future and international key, but he also had words for his Real Madrid. “At present I focus mainly on Madrid’s first team. Since I came up, (Luka) Modric, (Toni) Kroos, (Jude) Bellingham surprised me. I try to pay attention to what they do so I can improve and take advantage of the advice they give me. They help me a lot. I try to take advantage of it. Real Madrid for me is the best club in the world, it brings together the best values. It is a difficult club, because it always has to win, there is no other option. We are here to improve day by day and try to be part of professional football,” he concluded.
2024-03-30 16:30:43
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