Nahikari: “The finals are different games”

Two years ago, the women's team touched the sky in Granada with the achievement of its first Cup and obviously everything that is going on in these previous days at the txuri urdin club has brought out the memories: “Of course it brings back memories of how We enjoyed it, the week before, all that boom and all the warmth that we receive from the people ”, he tells MD Nahikari
Garcia. “Hopefully they can enjoy it because it's true that you remember the game, the post, but the pre days are also very beautiful.”

The road to victory for those of Imanol It will be much shorter if they come out with the same attitude with which Gonzalo's team Arconada faced the final: “I have no doubt that the team will have that attitude,” she assures convinced Nahikari. “I think they are highly motivated and know the importance of the final.”

That goal has it all and hopefully in tomorrow's final someone can repeat it, that it is just as beautiful and that we remember that winning goal over time.

In any case, Urnieta's forward recommends “keeping a cool head because all kinds of moments are experienced throughout the game” and “playing as they have been doing”, something she trusts because “they are professionals who live with pressure , with expectations and I am clear that they will do well ”.

La Real celebrates the achievement of the Queen's Cup in Granada
La Real celebrates the achievement of the Queen's Cup in Granada

Doesn't think there are favorites. “I really think about it,” he says. Because the finals “are different games. It does not matter if one arrives better or worse, if one has better equipment or worse. We have lived it in our own flesh and in the final, where, being theoretically inferior, we managed to compete, stand up and win ”.

“Add to all this that it is a derby,” he continues. A match where Athletic and Real are going to play “with a lot of feeling” because “playing with people you love, whom you protect, whom you take care of, always gives you a bonus. Playing with people you know a lot has a special value ”.

That goal

Nahikari will always be remembered for the goal that the Copa de la Reina gave Real, a goal that marked a before and after in his professional career: “For me that goal makes that final even more special because it gave the victory and was round the match. He made that moment unique and for me, personally, it was a movie day. That goal has everything and hopefully someone can repeat it in tomorrow's final, make it just as beautiful and that we will remember that winning goal over time ”.