Keidi Bare: “My parents had in mind that I would be a footballer”

The image of Keidi Bare celebrating the rise of Espanyol last year went around the world. “I’ve done a lot of crazy things,” the Albanian confessed on the parakeet club’s Twitch. “I would put that moment as an example (he climbed on a ledge 20 meters high without restraints). I was not aware, it came out like that, for me it was something normal and ordinary,” he said, with the same naturalness with which he explains his childhood. and how his family bet that this boy who did not stop playing football in the streets of Albania was a professional football player.

This is how Bare explained it, who had to star in several adventures to achieve his dream: “In my family’s mind was that I would become a professional… At the beginning it was a game, but my family got it into my head that I should be elite. I worked very hard, and we must continue“, valued Bare, who since he arrived at Espanyol has won the hearts of the fans for his way of playing. “It’s a special club, I’m proud of how everything feels here“, He said. “Somos soldados by Keidi Bare“, repeated two fans. “I like it, yes, I’ve heard it a lot“, adds the midfielder.

Since he shared a dressing room with his idol Fernando Torres at Atlético de Madrid (“it was a dream, that is to say, ‘I’ve achieved it’) until now he walks along Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona, ​​his favorite place, Keidi is clear that the soccer “It gives few joys, but when it gives you one, it fills you for life”. That way of feeling, that drive for survival is what he later transfers to the field of play. Hence his harmony with the fans, as was shown in the derby when he was applauded when he was substituted: “My hair stood on end, I’ll remember it all my life. The fans give me a lot of love. My family didn’t believe it, they couldn’t even take out their cell phone to record the moment”he underlined.

Not a lover of video games, a fan of paddle tennis (“I’m very bad”), Bare takes refuge in walks through the center of Barcelona and in series to spend his free time. His favourite, of course, ‘Vikings’. He feels like he plays. “There are many talented footballers who fell for not working”repeats Bare more than once, a leitmotif that he uses in a locker room that is “as a family” and that has the spirit of the 24-year-old Albanian, who has a long way to go and to fulfill the task entrusted to him by his family.