Szczesny explained his signing for Barça, his aspirations and revealed that his smoking status neither affects his performance nor should it matter.
BARCELONA — The Polish goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny considers that he needs time to reach his best form because “I was on vacation for two months”, he does not consider staying in the Barcelona beyond the end of this season and understands that his smoking status “It is not a matter that matter to no one“.
Szczesny34 years old and signed by Barça to replace Ter Stegen due to the serious injury suffered by the German, hinted in an interview with Mundo Deportivo about his annoyance at having to refer to tobacco, stating that he should not say “absolutely anything” about it. topic “because it’s my personal life and it’s no one’s business if I smoke.”
Szczesny, in the practice of Barcelona EFE
“It doesn’t affect what I do in the field, where I work twice as hard and I don’t do it (smoking) in front of the children so as not to have a bad influence on them,” he acknowledged, explaining that sometimes “they take a photo of me.” from where I can’t see them and that no longer depends on me because I try to hide it… But if someone thinks that I will change my personal life, they can think twice because I am who I am and I just want to be judged as a goalkeeper, not for looking for stories that don’t nobody cares.”
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Beyond this issue, Szczesny, who revealed that his teammates have always called him “Tek, because it is my first name and they have called me that for many years,” warned that he does not interpret his arrival at Barça to “replace Marc -André ter Stegen in the long term, but to help the team”, denying that he had accepted the signing because he had guaranteed ownership.
“No one can ever give you that guarantee because you have to earn the position and when you do you must be good enough to keep it… I say that I am here to help and it is the coach who decides. If I should help Iñaki to have the best season “I will do it and if it is on the field too,” he assured, showing himself close to the youth player with whom he will have to compete for ownership.
“Lewandowski was the first to call me to ask me if I would come back from retirement if there was a possibility of signing for Barça, but the one who had the most influence was my wife,” he revealed, remembering how the operation was conceived and praising his relationship with “Deco. As soon as he agreed to the deal with my agents, he called me immediately. And when I spoke to Flick everything was already decided, so he just called me to congratulate me.”
“It’s a strange story,” the former Juventus goalkeeper discovered because, he recalled, “one day before Ter Stegen’s injury I was convinced to say no to anyone who could call me… But when I received the call from Barça and the subject becomes real, the feeling is different.”
“I expected my wife to tell me ‘don’t do it’ but I didn’t see myself capable of saying no to Barça… The privilege of wearing that shirt is what made me change my mind,” he said.
“I never compete with my teammates; it is a relationship, an association because even if you are number one you have to go help a teammate,” he expressed when asked about his relationship with the goalkeepers, thinking about what is coming with Iñaki. Peña and remembering his experiences with Alisson Becker and Gianluigi Buffon, who stood out above all for “leadership and personality.”
“I am cold because I don’t show emotions on the field; I don’t celebrate much nor do I show passion on the field, although I am very ambitious,” he explained regarding his way of acting on the field of play, considering himself “just a normal professional… Looking forward to facing this challenge. “I know it’s me who has to adapt to Barça’s style, of course, but it’s not unknown to me because the way Barça has built itself from the back is very similar to what we did at Juventus when Pirlo was the coach.”
His debut in Barcelona? “I have no idea. And it will be the coach’s decision. But I have played more than 600 games during my career and I don’t care about the rival, whether it is a small team, Bayern Munich or Real Madrid; what I want is to be prepared because I expect a lot from myself and I don’t know if it will be in the next game or in two months,” he said.
