Nacho is celebrating his anniversary in one of the sweetest moments of his career. The white youth squad celebrates 10 years in the first team. On a day like today, in 2011, Mourinho made him debut at the Mestalla. Since then he has consolidated little by little until going through one of his best seasons, in which he has been a key player in decisive matches. Nacho has granted an interview to the club's television to review his career:
Debut: “I am very fond of football and I keep all the things that may have value for me in the future. The boots from the day of my debut and the ball signed by the coach and all the players are things that I had to take with me to put away. Every player when he is little has the dream of making his debut in the first team. That day you are made a flan because of your nerves and a lot of things go through your head. I remember that with fifteen minutes remaining I had cramps in my legs, Mourinho asked me if I wanted the change and I, logically, did not want to go out. I held out until the end and everything went well, with a victory and a great game on my part ”.
All life in white: ““I can't imagine a life without being in this club. Both my family and I believe that Real Madrid has given us everything since we were little. Fulfilling the dream of being able to be in the first team is something that I had always wanted. Now that I'm still here, I fulfill my dream every day that passes and every game that I play ”.
Real Madrid: “Real Madrid has given me everything. I say that it is also my family and I do not think of a life without Real Madrid. He has taught me everything: education, values, knowing how to win and knowing how to lose. It is not only a football club, but it is a family. I am very grateful to be here and to continue being part of this great team. Hopefully it will be for many more years ”.
Ten seasons: “I see that shirt and my eyes fill with joy because it is a very special year. If you have to keep a goal from Real Madrid in recent years, it is the one that marks Bouquets in that minute, because it turns everything around and changes the sign of everything that came after Real Madrid. In that final, when Sergio scored the goal, we ran out to celebrate. In the second goal we did the same thing again and they caught me and took me into the locker room. They didn't let me see the end of the game and I ended up seeing it there with the utilleros and the rest of the staff ”.
The end of the Eleventh: ““It was a complicated day because the day before, Maria told me that she thought Nachito was going to come now. Talking to her, she told me that she was fine and that the child seemed like he was going to be fine. So I went to Milan, knowing that Nacho was going to be born that day. It made my day very long. My head was all the time in my wife, in Nachito and in the final. I have rarely cried in the world of football, I cry little, but that day I remember that when we won I collapsed. Incredible, I always tell Nachito that he was born the day we won a final. It was a special final for me because I hadn't had minutes in any of them yet. I needed to remove the thorn of being able to compete in a final and also win it as it was won. I have several networks of titles that we have obtained, and that day I saw the network and did not doubt it at any time ”.
First goal: “I had to leave at the end of the game, I don't know if half an hour or twenty minutes. I think we were playing that game with one less and we were winning. It was a center that put me Arbeloa from the left wing and I, who was a right back, finished off. Score a goal in the Bernabeu it is always amazing. Seeing people get up and noticing how the stadium vibrates was very nice ”.
First League won: “The first League that I won is one of the titles that I have been most excited about. It represents work well done throughout the year and suffering for many months. Also, in that League I felt like a very important piece because I played practically every game. It was very special and I always tell my friends and family. I keep Liga 33 with great affection ”.
More than 200 games: “I was very excited about the 200 game jersey, the 100 game and the 50 game shirt. You are completing stages and you see that you are still in the game. Real Madrid, which is where I want to be. You are growing as a player and as a person. It is something beautiful and that adds value to the work you have been doing for so many years. That makes you push forward with more desire to reach more shirts like that. “
Spanish selection: “For an elite player and of the Real Madrid playing with your national team is perhaps the best. In addition, in the game of my debut in the World Cup I scored a goal, and the feeling that I had there I have rarely had again. Raising a country, knowing that there are many people behind it, and the responsibility of defending this shirt is something very beautiful, and scoring a goal much more ”.
The volley goal in the Copa del Rey: “The repercussion that the goal had was very great. I remember that the game ended and a lot of people wrote to me. In fact, to this day, after so many years, people keep reminding me of it. It was very nice. Zidane also told me that it looked like the one he had put in the final of Champions, I said that not much less. It is difficult to see a defender score a goal like this, but at that moment I said: here I am to score a goal ”.
His brother: “What am I going to say about my brother… He always tells me that I am the mirror where he looks and that I am his reference, but I could also say the same. The sacrifice and the work that it is for parents to do it with one child, well imagine with two. In addition, being able to see your two children fulfill their dream of playing the two of them together in the Real Madrid, with how difficult it is to see two brothers in the first team. Not only do I have the jersey that I have played against him, I have that of all the teams he has been on. If I am especially excited to save all the shirts of the teams I play against, imagine my brother's. I have it in a very special place in my room ”.