02/11/2020 - 11:44
- Clarín.com
- sports
The arrival of Daniele De Rossi in Boca, just over half a year ago, impacted Argentine football and his fans, who reminded him of his extensive career in Rome and his presence in the selected Italian world champion in Germany 2006. He just started In 2020, the midfielder surprised again to announce that he was leaving the Argentine club and that that would imply his retirement from the activity. Now, in an extensive interview with the Italian magazine GQ, he talked about that decision and his future as a coach.
De Rossi confessed that he felt that his true retirement came when he concentrated for the last time with Roma, the club of his loves. " My real retreat was the last day in Trigoria . Leaving my room to go to the Olympic stadium I thought: 'It is the last time you will close that door . ' And there it seemed to shake. Devastating," he said.
The cap boy. Daniel De Rossi in the Italian magazine GQ.
Then, he told how he decided to go to Argentina to play in Boca. "I had several offers to continue in Serie A, but I did not want to add another Italian shirt to the one in Rome, it seemed to me that it would ruin a beautiful story. And Boca had always been a dream for me and it was an honor to play there," he explained. .
Asked about the reasons that led him to hang the booties, he remarked: "When I'm fine I could still play in Rome or Boca, but it almost never happens. If I was 25 years old and the need to win I would have stayed in Buenos Aires. I'm 36 years, the worn out body and enough money : better to come back. " "There has been talk of serious problems about my daughter Gaia. There is nothing in particular. She is simply 14 years old and it is normal that she has the need to have her father nearby. As with her father we have lived through exhausting moments, some will have imagined I do not know what a thing, "he argued.
In the interview conducted by Paolo Condò, De Rossi also talked about his relationship with Francesco Totti. "We have played 20 years together, we have hugged each other after the goals, we have frequented ourselves outside the court and we also had some noisy fights, we spent a month without talking to each other, also last year, but then we always ended up laughing. Life real, not told, "he said.
In addition, on the stormy goodbye of the historic captain of Rome he added: "It is a period that I remember as a nightmare. I felt like the child attending the disputes between mom and dad. I told him about Totti, I shared a lot with Spalletti, too we killed ourselves but I have great respect for him. I was bothered by the absurdity of the situation: the team won and yet Spalletti was booed, on the other hand someone dared to say that Totti did not want the good of Rome. "
Finally, De Rossi did not rule out being linked to football as a future coach of the technical bodies of Rome but warned that "not the first team", because he does not want to complicate Daniel Fonseca, the Uruguayan who is currently the technical director of the Italian team.