life stopped being rubbish

Andy Robertson is the leader of Scotland. He was the one who best knew how to maintain the balance between fire and the cool head requested by his coach, Steve Clarke, for the debut against the Czech Republic, in which they were defeated 0-2. The left side was the one who led the most danger with his rises up the side, but his centers were not well finished. He is the captain, the experienced and his team had not played the final phase of a great championship since the 1998 World Cup in France. Robertson was only four years old at the time, and more than the parties he remembers the party at his house for that event. The last European Championship with Scotland was in 1996. And before that I had only played in 1992. It can be said that it is a small feat that they are there.

But Robertson knows that it has not been easy to reach that status that he has and achieve what he has achieved. Famous is the tweet he sent in 2012: “Life at my age is rubbish without money # I need a job.” He was in a difficult time, they had fired him from Celtic Glasgow for being too short (he is now 1.78) and he had to decide if he wanted to continue betting on football or start a university career. He was part of the ranks of Queen’s Park, in the lower categories, and to live worked at the club’s stadium, Hampden Park, answering the phones for tickets to matches, concerts … They gave him the opportunity to play in the first team, which was in the Third Division, and his promotion from there was unstoppable. It didn’t take long for him to draw the attention of other more powerful clubs and the Dundee United scout only needed 25 minutes to see him to know that there was a great footballer there. The Hull was his next destination, making the leap to the Premier, and finally ended up in the Liverpool, where it has made history, since the boy who asked for a job on social networks has won the Champions League, in 2019 at the Wanda Metropolitano, and the Premier, the following season, a title that the “network” team had not raised for 30 years. First he was not a starter with Klopp, but the injury of the Spanish Alberto Moreno made him a hole that he no longer left. The year that Orejona conquered, he was the protagonist of Barcelona’s comeback at Anfield, after having lost 3-0 at the Camp Nou. He had a run-in with Messi, who hit him on the head when the Argentine was on the ground. Months later, he admitted that he was not proud of having done that “to the best.”