In a relaxed atmosphere, in the program Flying Parakeet from Espanyol, Cristian Gomez paraded to review his career and the funny moments that his experiences in the perico club and in the Real Madrid Castilla, now that he is a youth soccer coach and a player in L'Hospitalet in Segunda B. The midfielder made his debut in Primera in the 2011-12 season with Mauricio Pochettino, played 36 games and scored a goal, while in 2013-14 he was loaned to Real Madrid-Castilla, the year of relegation to Segunda B.
On this last experience, in a dressing room with Willian José, Raúl de Tomás, Pacheco or Lucas Vázquez, he spoke at length: “There was a lot of ego, it was very complicated. Everyone already had cars and I came from the neighborhood. In the first two months it was difficult for me to adapt. When a footballer did not play, on Monday he would knock on the coach's door and say that he was going to City. We played well and failed a lot. I remember Willian José came from Brazil with 28 kilos more “commented the Catalan footballer.
There he made friends with several players, such as Lucas Vázquez, and got to know the personality of Raúl de Tomás, now a star at Espanyol. “Raúl said that he was getting bigger since he was born. He was grown since he was little, but as a person he is a spectacle. He was very funny. The brands gave him many boots and he distributed them with the children”, valued. Cristian played only 11 games, since “the C coach arrived and he only wanted the home team.”
Denis Suárez and Cristian Gómez.
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When Pandiani grabbed a juvenile by the neck
Cristian Gómez arrived at the Espanyol subsidiary with his inseparable Christian Alfonso (they have played in four different clubs) in 2011, and soon he caught the attention of Mauricio Pochettino: “It gave me a lot of confidence. I remember my first training session, in which I scored the two goals of the game. Pochettino had to think, and where does this come from?”. But the dismissal of the Spanish-Argentine the following year changed his career.
Javier Aguirre arrived, whose words were contradictory to the acts. “There were details with Aguirre that I didn't like. There was a lack of a midfielder in training and he put me as a center-back and went up to one of the subsidiary. Then he did not let me leave and at a press conference he did not have a good detail with me. And that who told me 'you are the apple of my eye' … But I have not played! “.
They were complicated stages for Espanyol, especially economically (“there were months that it was not charged“), while he remembers funny moments, like when Thievy Bifouma, now in China, parked his car outside the Sports City so that the coach would not see that he had bought another; or when Walter Pandiani grabbed Paul Quaye, player 16-year-old who debuted in First at that time, after making an entrance.