Retired since 2023, the former PSG player does not recognize himself in the new generation. In full management training, Argentinian wishes to put passion back at the heart of the game.
Nostalgia, nostalgia for Javier Pastore. The Argentinian player who passed by Palermo, PSG or even AS Roma is the perfect example of the romantic player, full of talent and guided by passion. In an interview with the team, “El Flaco” returns to the evolution of football. He says he is disappointed that money has taken too much room for the benefit of passion. “”There is, however, one thing that I regret in sport: it is that too young, the money moves to you from the passion for football. If a boy aged 18, 19 earns € 10 million per year, how can he put passion in the foreground? When you win as much, there are necessarily people who get closer to you. We are talking about investments, ten thousand things, but we are no longer talking about football. I have played all my life for football. ”
A conversion turned towards the transmission
The young retiree has followed a management training provided by FIFA for twelve months, alongside his new life as a consultant for the Ligue 1 Plus channel, and is more sports director than a retainer. The former Argentinian international wishes “Share my experience, put it at the service of young people who arrive”. He who has always put passion at the center of everything, never perceived football as a job: “For me, training was fun. There was not a day when I woke up without the desire to go and train. I arrived two hours before because it was a pleasure that we shared with the people present ”.
Pass advertising
In addition to the change of mentality, Javier Pastore denounces the robotization of players and that from the training: “Today, we think above all to create a player style to sell it afterwards. We no longer think of what quality such or such person has to become a different football player. This is the era of GPS. I liked the GPS when it was well used. When it is a tool used to prevent injuries, it’s great. If it is to see if the player accumulates one hundred assists, well done or badly done, it’s worse. ” he adds.
