Torró: “What I have learned in Germany will be good for me here”

He assures that returning to Osasuna has been to return home. In the 2017-18 season, Torró already wore the Osasuna shirt and played practically everything. He decided to start a new stage at the German Eintracht, where things did not turn out as well as he expected. Two serious injuries kept him from giving his best. He has signed with Osasuna until 2024 and hopes to live a beautiful year with the clear objective in mind of achieving permanence and contributing everything in his power to do so.

How are you living this unusual preseason?

Indeed, it is being an atypical preseason because the usual thing is to go out there, to concentrate. This year we have to do everything in the sports city, pass the PCR test every week, we must follow all the protocols, we cannot shower in the changing rooms … It is all a bit strange, but we have to adapt to all the measures. There is very little left for the good to begin and we are looking forward to it.

Happy for your return to Osasuna?

From the first day of my return, the reception from everyone, gardeners, colleagues, press people, was very good. I am very happy to be here again. The truth is that I feel as if I were in my town, in Cocentaina (Alicante).

When you left for Eintracht, did you imagine that you would ever return to Osasuna?

I always left the door open for Osasuna because I came out very well. I was only there for a year, but it was very good for me. I played pretty much everything. We did not meet the goal, but I grew a lot. I had a very good opportunity to go out and play in Germany, which really caught my attention. Luckily, I was able to return in the best possible circumstances.

A good opportunity to play in Germany, which did not go as well as expected due to various circumstances …

When I went there I started playing all the games, until I had to have pubic surgery, which meant many months without being able to play. The second year I had a serious knee injury. It has been two years in which I have not been able to have the desired continuity. I get the positive part because in these two years I have grown a lot, I have learned a lot about German football, which is going to be good for me to play here. Since I left I have grown and I hope to be able to show it and have another good year, as I did in my previous stage in Osasuna. Hopefully it will be like that.

He also had to live a tough personal situation (his brother died suddenly and he played a Europa League game a few hours later to pay tribute to him).

Yes. It all came together. I linked a difficult personal situation with injuries. These are moments that have already passed and that make you grow. Complicated situations make you stronger. The positive is that these kinds of things make you a better person and a better player.

How did the possibility of returning to Osasuna arise?

We had had a lot of conversations, even for last season. This made me want to go back especially this year because I saw that here I could play in the First Division, with the centenary, the renovated stadium. There were many things that caught my attention and I wanted to go back.

The negotiation was not easy.

I had three more years of contract at Eintracht and the club had me and the coach as well. That could complicate things, but the truth is that they were very good to me. They made things easier and let me out. The clubs agreed, something that I was looking forward to as soon as possible, so that I could return.

He had not coincided with Arrasate in his previous stage here, how about him?

I hadn't had him as a coach. The year I was there, Diego Martínez trained and then he arrived. Since Jagoba has been in Osasuna, things have been going very well for them. They have grown a lot as a club, they went up and had a great year in the First Division. I hope to learn as much as possible and adapt as quickly as possible to your ideas, which you have already mentioned to me. Personally I understand very well with him. Above all I want to contribute my grain of sand to the team to meet the objective, which is to save themselves.

Overcoming Osasuna's season last year is not going to be easy.

The objective is to save ourselves and we will fight as much as possible to achieve it. What happened last year was incredible. Hopefully we can repeat it, but we know that the First Division demands a lot from you and there is a great level. We have to give the best of each one to, above all, fulfill the objective, which is to save ourselves. I want it to be like that and give us to be as high as possible.

Osasuna celebrates its centenary and they are going to open a new stadium. The only downside is that it is not known when a match will be held with an audience?

Yes. Everything is in the air. The circumstances that we live in today due to the issue of the coronavirus mean that we do not know what will happen. Hopefully we can get back to normal as soon as possible and see that stadium full and feel the fans because we need them.

A start to the League awaits them against rivals, a priori, affordable.

Affordable in First there is nothing. Any team has a high level, wherever you go. Cádiz is recently promoted but they have a good team and we have to go there very focused and do our job. In these matches against direct rivals you must always try to add. In First there is no easy game.

On a personal level, what do you hope to bring to the team?

I will try to give the balance that I usually give and I will try to be defensively forceful, help the team with the ball out, and in aerial balls.

How is Lucas Torró off the pitch?

I'm a very calm person. I like to be at home, resting. I consider myself hard-working and professional in my business. I love training a lot and I take good care of myself. Apart from sports, I am very familiar.