BARCELONA, 7 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Spanish striker Álvaro Morata will play for Atlético de Madrid next season, after spending two seasons on loan to Juventus de Turín, for which he expressed his desire to start training under ‘Cholo’ Simeone in a team “with a lot of competition” in attack.
“I’m going to meet all those players who are also friends for me. I’m looking forward to seeing them, it’s going to be very important that we get to know each other so that we can then compete at the best level. I can’t wait to start training. I’m very motivated and I’m sure it’s going to be a great year,” Morata said this Thursday in an interview with the ‘mattress’ group collected by Europa Press.
The Madrid attacker highlighted “the luck” of having previously worked with Simeone, so it will be “everything easier” to face the new season with a good list in attack, including Antoine Griezmann, Joao Felix and Matheus Cunha.
“There is a lot of competition up front, there are a lot of great players and I think that is very good for the team because the more options there are to choose from and the more options there are in the attacking zone, the better for the competitiveness between us and above all to compete. against the other teams,” he said.
“There is a super complete squad that can aspire to anything, they already showed it two seasons ago by winning the League title in a championship as complicated as the Spanish one. You have to work very hard in this preseason to be in the best physical condition to fight for everything”, recognized the player.
The Spanish international signed for Atlético de Madrid from Chelsea in January 2019, where he played a season and a half as a ‘mattress player’. After two seasons on loan at Juventus, the attacker returns in a year marked on the calendar with the World Cup next November.
“It’s a World Cup year and I think it can affect little, on the contrary, it seems to me that it can be positive for our team because there are many players who are going to be able to play in that championship and obviously when it’s a World Cup year people are very connected and very motivated from the beginning and they will be like this all year to show their coaches that they have to be”, he highlighted.
Now, Morata is preparing to return to training to arrive in the best possible shape at the start of LaLiga Santander. “It is very important that we can all work together from the beginning and we have the opportunity to put ourselves physically at our best to get to the start of the season in the best possible way. The preseason in Los Angeles always gives you a lot of strength to face the season”, express.
At 29 years old, the attacker scored 59 goals in 185 games with Juventus during his Italian journey, while for the rojiblanco team he scored 22 in 61 games. “On an individual level, the successes that one has to score should be few, in the end you should think about helping the team as much as possible with goals and assists, but the most important thing is to win titles, that’s what I want and what my friends want. colleagues,” he said.