Álvaro Cervera: “Ancelotti told me to be calm”

Álvaro Cervera has granted an interesting interview to the magazine Líbero. The conversation that our colleague Alberto Cabello had with our colleague Alberto Cabello left several passages that we reproduce for his interest.

Experience after leaving Cádiz. “I have had a bad time, it has been a long time doing the same thing in a place that I liked with a very pleasant routine for me. That was broken, you realize that it is part of your profession and that one day it has to come. Mine didn’t go the way I expected though.”

Affectionate farewell to cadismo. “It was something spontaneous and it caught my attention because I didn’t expect it. He makes me feel indebted to those people. The normal thing is to separate yourself from the character when you are fired due to poor results, and mine were. With me they valued other things”.

Ancelotti’s call. “My phone rang twice and I didn’t pick it up. I was with a group of people and one of them called him telling him that Ancelotti was calling me and to answer the call. He told me to be calm that it was part of our job and that it had happened to him several times, to rest and when he felt like it he could train again”.

Thanks to the Italian technician. “Throughout my career, Madrid has always had good gestures with me. As a player I had a very serious injury and the only message I received was from Real Madrid. When we promoted to Primera with Cádiz, the first personal message was from Butragueño and now when this has happened to me it has been from Ancelotti. That makes it clear to you who Real Madrid is beyond affinities”.

Your keys. “Someone with a certain name in Cádiz, and who has nothing to do with football, called me two days after I left and told me that my success in the city is not having trained Cádiz, it is having lived Cádiz, knowing how to understand people and wanting to understand the city with its pros and cons”.

Identified with Cadiz. “A day dawns with those circumstances, and they know that tomorrow will dawn with those same circumstances. They keep laughing just the same. Someone said at the Carnival that the people of Cádiz work to know how to get ahead without working. And that already takes a lot of work. It’s not laziness, it’s need. It is a paradox that makes you think. The threshold for survival and adaptation of people from Cádiz is very high. Work is associated with something that has to be done out of obligation and they introduce a variable of spontaneity. All of this is so different that it attracts many of us in such a way that it changes our lives forever.”