Girona's Colombian player Johan Mojica (Cali, 1992) recognized, in an interview with EFE, that the rojiblanca squad faces the final stretch of the Second Division championship “as if it were a world“and urged his teammates to” win each match yes or yes to stay alive. “
The master of the left lane of the Girona team described the eleven matches “as a very great opportunity to achieve something once again historic” and recalled the promotion of 2017, when the club promoted for the first time to the highest category of Spanish football.
“It was something unforgettable, an achievement that will always accompany us all and that gave us a lot of happiness. Now we want to relive everything we lived”, stressed Mojica before stressing that the only objective “is promotion, and to achieve it you have to go game by game“And, therefore, he remarked that” it is essential to start well “.
The painting by Josep Lluís Martí, who will return to the playing fields next Saturday against the Unión Deportiva Las Palmas, in the lower area of the table, occupies fifth place in the LaLiga SmartBank, eight points from direct promotion positions.
However, the Girona lane does not renounce reaching Cádiz or Zaragoza: “We are going to go for direct promotion. We are psyched to achieve it. And if it has to be through the promotion play-off, welcome, too.”
Mojica insisted that after the stop due to coronavirus Girona has returned to training “mentally refreshed, with strength, new hopes and very hungry.”
The 27-year-old left back, who has already played 25 games this season and which adds 68 encounters with the elastic of Girona, He also argued that “playing every three days, having two complete lineups, with two players per position, can be quite a big help.”
At the individual level, the former footballer of Deportivo Cali, Rayo Vallecano and Valladolid, who last year was away from the playing fields due to a serious knee injury, stressed that “it is not easy to return from an injury like this.”
In any case, he highlighted the good moment he is in: “I have played almost every game and I have returned to the selection, and now I want to continue like this “.
Regarding the situation caused by the coronavirus, the international of the colombian team He acknowledged that “he missed the ball and the grass a lot.”
The '3' of Girona, assured that “all footballers wanted the league to be finished on the field” and admitted that he has “I really want to play again”, although it also foresees that “it will be very different”.
“We will have to be well prepared both physically and mentally. There will be eleven games in one month. When one game ends, the next one will be sighted, so we will have to go day by day,” he insisted.
Mojica explained that the stoppage due to the coronavirus “has been a unique opportunity to connect with oneself” and feed the “spiritual part” of the athlete.
Finally, he sent a message to his countrymen not to let their guard down with the coronavirus. “In Colombia the situation is worse than in Spain right now, although the alarming numbers of infections and deaths in Europe have not been reached. It is essential that we all comply with all the rules to the letter so that all this happens as soon as possible, “he settled.