Casillas, on the 'Galacticos': “We didn't have a team”

The period from 2008 to 2012 was the most brilliant time in Spanish football. A country shaken by the economic crisis found in Spain a small way out of its problems. Two Euro Cups and a World Cup to write in gold letters to the best generation of the national team. Of the first two titles, he was in charge of remembering the great privileged person who raised the two trophies to the sky of Vienna and Johannesburg, in addition to the 'Galacticos', Fabio Capello's league … Iker Casillas, in the 4th chapter of his documentary series 'Hanging the Wings' by Movistar +, he commented on how he lived that time with the help of other illustrious figures such as Andrés Iniesta, Xavi Hernández, Zinedine Zidane, Arjen Robben, Gianluigi Buffon …

The 'Galacticos', the league of Capello …

Historic stop in Perotti (Seville): “I thought keep running that you're going to stop him. Turning around and trying to run to the ball makes Perotti nervous.”

Weak points: “People said that Iker was a goalkeeper who did not know how to go from the top. So what do you do, not go out and never fail? Many of my best games have been against teams that dominate the air game. Like the final of the European Championship. 2008. It does not mean that it is a phenomenon or that it is bad, but I have always had to come out from the top and without any problem. What you cannot do is that it affects you, because you believe it yourself in the end you believe it really the one you don't know how to get out of the top “

Her little taste for the gym: “I didn't feel like going to the gym to get stronger. I've always believed in the confidence inside.”

Age of the 'Galactics': “Zidane, Figo, Ronaldo … The jump is brutal. We are talking about a stratospheric dimension. We couldn't believe the signing of Beckham. He had 40 photographers behind him every time he went out. We kept playing and winning. Nine months winning. practically everything. Of course, that makes it seem that in the end everything was going great. That we were going to win everything, the treble … That defeat in the Cup final against Zaragoza marked us. The third week of March, until mid-May, in a fall without a parachute which was what it was. They are not just names, it is to form a team and we did not have it. Three whole years without winning anything and fighting for nothing. It was when Barça began to take off, they won two leagues in a row, the Cup of Europe in 2006 … That stage is the one that I do not like to remember at all “.

Capello League: “Three weeks of preseason, one day off. That's Fabio Capello. Surely that was what we needed. As the club was, it was not normal. Once again, Barça seems to be moving away from us and they were on track to win the League. Then We went to the Champions League, we had beaten Bayern, and I remember that in the second leg it was the famous goal at six seconds … Disaster and elimination. We only had the League. We were winning 2-3 at the Camp Nou and they tied us at the end There was in Espanyol at home that we were losing 1-3 (they ended up winning 4-3)… Recreativo's game away from home winning 0-2, totally calm (Roberto Carlos saved him at the end with 2-3). also the famous Tamudazo game. Crazy. Each game was like going back 20 years and recovering the comebacks from the Vulture's 5th. We played against Mallorca without a stake and we started losing 0-1. But with 22 minutes to go Reyes puts the tie and then Diarra with a head. Bf, all the people jumping, crying … That league was held as if it were a Champions League “.

Euro 2008 and World Cup 2010

Impeccable group stage and penalties vs Italy: “Well, nobody said that Spain was the favorite. I had 7/8 new players … We had a fantastic group stage and penalties from Italy came. I say don't tell me anything. I'm going to let myself go. I remember one coming. image of De Rossi missing a penalty with Roma against United. One of those times it sticks in your head and you don't know why. I mean, Iker, don't think any more. Halfway up, to your right. Then when I see to Güiza and his fails … I thought, they win. And finally Cesc, he was the last, you just have to put him in. ”

Cardozo Penalty vs Paraguay: “Pepe (Reina) is a penalty maniac. Every time we played against someone he had to study an opponent. He always approached you to say he was going to throw it there. About him (Cardozo) said that he had played against him with Liverpool. Who usually hits it to the right but his was to the left. Who was going to say that there would be a penalty, that it was Carzdozo who would shoot it and on the left … Pf “.

Seven months after the heart attack

Withdrawal is approaching: ´ “I was more sorry, because I wanted to lower the medication. Things were going well, better than before, but there is always a but. The illusion that you say, well I can recover … They do not want to tell you that you are 100% for that possible back. He is giving you to understand that you would have to leave football. “

On his future (before his retirement and what was his possible candidacy for the presidency of the RFEF): “Every day that passes there is something that always haunts you. This is going to be a constant change, get ready, curves are coming.”