Luca de la Torre: “The last weeks of the season were very difficult”

Soccer player from Celtic Luca de la Torreconcentrated with Team USA, a few days ago he gave an interview in which he talked about his first season in Vigo. He points out that he felt itvery comfortable“, He talks about the wonders of Galicia and also admits that “the last weeks of the season were very difficult”. “We were more and more near descentthe teams that came behind won and the last game became the final,” he points out in a conversation with Sanjay Sujanthakumar and thanks that hubby with them.

It shows how he lived reception before Barcelona, ​​​​”with 8,000 or 10,000 people on the street on the way to the stadium, the torches… You could feel the pressure from the fans and the city to win the game.” And he notes that at the end of the day, with the other results, they could have continued in the First League without a win, but “it didn’t feel like that at all.”

Celtic believes that Vigo is “a small town, with only one (professional) team and people are very involved in football.” reckons that he usually recognized on the street “constantly and anywhere” every time he goes out for a walk or to dinner, although “everyone very nice, they ask you for a photo or whatever and that’s very good.” When asked if there were any negative reactions during the difficult season, he told an anecdote. “I was leaving a restaurant with my girlfriend the week of the Barcelona game and the guy said to me: ‘You better win tomorrow’. I said: ‘Don’t worry, we’ll do it’. He kept saying: ‘Just win’. And I kept going walk,” he says.

To talk admiration of Jago Aspaswhich he says is the first player «world class“with whom he played, despite the fact that he matched up with very good football players, especially in the national team. “We played a friendly against Brentford after the World Cup. I was warming up, it was minus five degrees, very cold. He took the ball, turned and scored from 35 meters almost without looking. He is 35 years old and has scored twelve goals. it’s crazy», value. He says he’s seen him do things in training “that you keep saying ‘wow’ to.”

When asked about relief from Eduardo Coudet per Carlos Carvalhal, considers it a “big change”, because he played “very differently” and there was “more communication with the coach”. “He gave me opportunities, he believed in me, he’s a great coach and I can’t complain,” he says. In addition, they ask him what he expects from the next technician. “It’s not something I can control. I love teams dominate the ball gameevery coach with that idea,” he replies.

Explain how the tradition of eat octopus after the wins “I did it in one of the first ones we got: I ate an octopus, posted a post, we won again and, jokingly, I already felt the pressure to do it every time we won.” When given a choice between san diego tacos or octopus, no doubt, remains with the Galician dish. “I’ve eaten it before, but not in Galicia, and they cook it in a different way, it’s very good. But there are other excellent foods, first of all, shell. I like that”.

De la Torre mentions that speaking about Spainpeople usually think of Mallorca or Barcelona and that in Galicia “the climate is different, it rains a little more than in other cities, but there are mountains, fantastic beaches and one Quality of life very good”. And he says that he lives in an apartment in the center, repeats that he is very comfortable and even forgets that his Spanish has improved enough to be able to give an interview in that language and jokes that his father now speaks Spanish with him to make up for they didn’t study as a child.

And it also speaks to how basic it is in football.”take advantage of opportunities, have a positive impact on the game, because if not, it may be a while before the next opportunity. Although he also believes that working day in and day out in training is necessary, although other factors influence whether he plays or not, such as “the results or the time of other players in the team”, although his own work is the most important.

Another aspect that is touched on is the position. He says he feels like a midfielder, without elaborating further, and tries to adapt to what is being asked of him. At the beginning of his career, he played as a double pivot, but Carvalhal explained that he saw him in another position. “I learned along the way and developed naturally.”