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Isak Count the hours at the holiday retreat, in his native Sweden, to start a new season at Real. The premise may seem far-fetched to someone who has just completed a strenuous 12-month journey of preparation and competition just two weeks ago, but the experiences experienced by the young Eritrean striker in his first year as txuri urdin lead him to wish that the rhythm would not stop. . Like a good poker player, you feel like your hand is hot and you don't want the game to stop.
“I never finished a season with these feelings,” he says. Isak in an interview with his country's media ‘SVT Sport’. “When I finished in Germany, I had not played and I was thinking 'what should I do.' In Holland I had done well, but I had already signed with Real and I could not relax, I thought about it a lot. But now I have left behind a good season and I am looking forward to the next one, I have the feeling that it will be a lot of fun, ”adds the forward.
“I enjoy at Real”
The Swede finds in the experience of this last year the reasons to bet so strongly on what is to come. “I am in a place where I enjoy and play well,” says a Isak that, given to score its season of premiere in the Spanish league, it would give it a “6 or a 6.5. I have had good moments but also setbacks. I would give him an 8 or a 9 if he had played more, if he had achieved more things, but I have work ahead and many things to achieve ”, he adds.
You always want to play, especially when you are ‘hot’ and you see that in the next game they leave you on the bench
And it is that although the young Nordic striker has been one of the revelations of the championship and has shone with his own light, he has been out of the starting lineup 55% of the time, more than half, between League and Cup, all a motivation for the future. “You always want to play, especially when you are 'hot' and you see that in the next game they leave you on the bench.” Those decisions at no time have caused him to collapse. “You suffer but it also gives me motivation. ‘Pica’, but at the same time being a substitute has given me more gasoline, ”says the Scandinavian, who also understands that“ we have a good team with a large squad and good players. ”
As if that intelligence or the common sense with which Isak Contextualizing the difficulties of a professional footballer, the Swede remembers that self-esteem is his best ally. “I believe in myself and try to be positive. If you have a bad time you should work harder, not focus on not playing because it is not only up to you, ”explains the Nordic international whose recipe is simple. “What you can control is how you train and how you play.”
“The Bernabéu, the greatest”
Starting from that method that aims at permanent individual improvement as the first commandment, Isak rejects a short-term future that is not in the Real. “There is nothing, I have never paid attention to these issues,” he says, referring to hypothetical offers. “I like where I am and I'm looking forward to the new season at Real.” Perhaps because, in his internal forum, he dreams over and over again of recalling nights like the one on February 6 in which, practically alone, he eliminated Real Madrid from the Cup at the Bernabéu. “It is the greatest thing I have ever experienced, it was something incredible.”