With a contract with Sporting until June 2024, Sebastián Coates, 32, does not hide that he dreams of returning to the club where he trained: Nacional Montevideo.
“The truth is that since I left the club I have always had and still have the goal of returning. Obviously it depends on many things, on how I will be physically, if the current coach wants me, if the club wants me. I wouldn’t want to be a burden to the club, or just have to go because of a date. If it is, it is to help and really do everything for Nacional to do well ”, she said, in an interview published this Wednesday by the Uruguayan newspaper Ovación.
The defender, on the other hand, was very happy at Sporting, a club where he recently reached 300 games. “It’s happening naturally. Since I arrived they have treated me very well and I have had the regularity I was looking for since I left Nacional and I didn’t find it in Liverpool and Sunderland», he highlighted, also speaking of being captain in Alvalade’s coat of arms: «Everywhere it’s a responsibility to be a captain. I have that responsibility at the club, but I’ve remained the same since I arrived, whether I’m captain or not.”
Until? «My idea, and I’ve always said it, is not to project beyond 2024 [quando termina o contrato] because we have a shelf life. A player sometimes thinks he can keep playing and his body won’t let him. This is why I would like to get to 2024 and see how I am physically, if I can continue to help the club. If, from then on, he becomes a burden, it wouldn’t be the best for me, nor for the club, nor to close the cycle here,” he said.
