Angel
strap was one of the key players so that el Atlético de Madrid
achieved the title of The league. His was the goal that started the key comeback against him Real Valladolid.
“My goal came at the right time because the world was upon us, the effort of the whole year. To lose like this … Luckily that point entered to tie and the goal of Suarez and win the championship ”, answered the Rosario in words to Radio La Red
, before acknowledging that he has made a leap in his career.
“I arrived in 2014, after the Liberators with San Lorenzo. I had heart surgery. El Cholo knows me a lot, I've been working with him for many years. I've grown a lot since I've been here. On St. Lorenz
or I entered to have fun, in the Athletic You understand football, you learn to play more as a team, what do you need for a league as demanding as the Spanish one. I learned to play as a team here ”, acknowledged the Argentine forward. “Very happy to have been in all the games,” he added regarding the fact that he participated in the 38 matches of The league.
The player spoke of his goal with the toe: “I'm good at it, when we play small games I try. Y Simeone He always told me, not to think that he would give her a 'tip' ”.
On Simeone He said: “He's a bore (laughs). He knows it and recognizes it. He always prepares us to win and shows me the way ”. “As a forward is where I feel freer, behind a '9', where I think I do the most damage. It took me a lot to adapt to playing right inside, my twins were cramping … Wanda (laughs) to run for the band ”, he pointed out to the player.
“The Metropolitan it's awesome, I was also lucky enough to play in the Calderon. It is the only court where I felt that it approached what the court is in Argentina”, He recalled.
The footballer has made a special connection with Luis Suáre
z. “It's incredible because what he is… we were very lucky that he came from BarcelonaHe could have gone to any club, he came to compete with all his humility, he helped us a lot with his goals, on a day-to-day basis. He is an incredible person ”.
HIS ROLE AND HIS DEPARTURE FROM THE ATHLETIC
The footballer acknowledged that during these years he did not have a good time at all, because he did not have the role that he understood he should or wanted to have. And that he has realized what it means to play in the Athletic. “Many friends told me so. I was about to leave the Athletic and they told me 'look, you're the 10th of Athletic, live in Spain, on Madrid… but you get hot and want to play. The previous years I wanted to play in my position, which was more of a forward, which was not being given to me, I saw that the years passed and that my situation did not change. They are the moments in which one thinks … ”, indicated.
“I have a very good relationship with him Cholo but when the Milan, he did not get anything. He said that if I stayed, everything was fine and that if I left, everything was fine ”, he explained at the time, adding that“ he knows where ”he likes to play strap. “But I'm never going to give him a problem if he wants to put me at '8' or '4', he knows it too,” he added.
That situation was a turning point for him: “Once it didn't happen, I put it into my head to play, improve, improve myself. And it was that more than anything.
The player was also asked about that step backwards that the team sometimes takes when it gets ahead on the scoreboard. “It is something that we always ask ourselves. We started by scoring a goal and we kind of relaxed, and the team began to pull back and it was difficult for us to get out. The players can not find an explanation because we do not want to do that, we want to continue as when we were looking for the first goal … It is not a request for Simeone, it is given by the game. The whole team is committed to defending, if we score a goal, the rival wants to draw and we all start to defend. And then it is difficult to get ahead, “said the player of the Atlético de Madrid.
THE MOMENT OF YOUR OPERATION
The player recalled what happened when he reached the Athletic, in which a heart problem was detected for which he had to undergo surgery. “When it came time to check my heart, it was 40 minutes and they did not finish, I thought there was something strange. I saw doctors coming in and out, talking. At that moment I asked if everything was okay and after two days they told me that there was something strange in the heart, that it was not normal. Then the doctor of the Athletic knew the doctors of USA, who read my report and decided that it was something very strange that they had not seen and had to see me there. Miguel Angel Gil Marin, the owner of the AthleticHe told me that he was in charge of the operation but that he had to operate. At first I did not want to have surgery, I wanted to go back to San Lorenzo to see if we could play the final of the Liberators. But my agent, Agustin, told me to think that I had already given a lot to San Lorenzo, that my health, my life was at stake. So I called my mother and told her that they were going to operate on me, that it was bullshit, and that in a week I was with her, ”he explained.
“The day I left there was a Spanish doctor with whom I have a good relationship and he told me that I would never have another heart problem, to be calm. Here every six months they do some studies to see that everything is fine. I never had a problem again, “said the Rosario.
RETURN TO THE ARGENTINE NATIONAL TEAM
The footballer was very happy to have returned to the Argentine team and to be able to fight for his place in the Cup
America. “Not being on the list of the Argentine national team made me very sad, but I kept trying to get there,” he acknowledged in the interview with Radio La Red.
Beyond consecration with him Athletics, Correa He recognized himself as a fan of Rosario Central, a club in which he would like to play in the future. “Everyone knows that I am a fan of Central and my dad's dream was for me to play in the First. Later I am going to talk about it with my family ”, assured the player.