Former Salta Vigo and Fenerbahce star, who celebrates 49, in an unusual interview in Spain: "I was just on a vending machine. Sometimes I did not feel emotions and I was not happy at all. Today I barely watch football."
Haim Revivo.
Prefers the disconnection from football
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Joshua Joseph
Haim Revivo, who is celebrating 49 winters today (Monday), retired from active play 15 years ago, but it turns out that Spain still does not forget the football star, who began his career beyond words in the Salta Vigo uniform in 1996.
In a yes interview with Panenka, a former Israeli national team player, who scored 23 goals in the Salta uniform with whom he also reached the quarterfinals of the UEFA Cup, he explained that in fact, his love for football was reduced to the minimum possible.
"Once I closed the stage and stopped playing, I preferred to retire from football," Revivo said. "During my career I was just about automatic. Just like a robot. I grew up playing without thinking about the thing itself too much. Sometimes I didn't feel emotions and I wasn't happy at all.
"If football interests me today? Now I only watch Champions League games sometimes. If in the past I was one hundred percent in the world of football, today I am only a tenth of that."
On his childhood in Ashdod and the beginning of his career, Revivo expanded: "Where I grew up, you can only choose between football or crime. I had friends who were murdered, others who went to prison. We had no food in the family, but we were not middle class. That's why I'm still very much Sensitive to the needs of weaker people. "
On the days as a football star in the uniform of Salta Vigo and Fenerbahce: "Just as robots do the right thing, so did I. I did my duty - there is always a game, a role that needs to be filled, a team and a staff that always needs to creep in."