“Wherever I went they believed that it would be Messi and he would score 50 goals every year”

Gai Assulin he has had a strange career. Called to be the new Messi when he was in the quarry of the FC Barcelona Under the command of Pep Guardiola, the Israeli winger ended up going out and being a globetrotter who is currently looking for a team after his stint at AC Crema in Italian Serie D.

In an interview with The Guardian, Assulin, who lives in Manchester with his partner and daughter, explains that he would like to continue playing because he does not understand life without football. However, you know that it is complicated. “Football is something irreplaceable, it is what I love the most in life and I will always love it. Even though I don’t have a team now, I try to play and train to do the best I can. “

“You go into a moment where you can’t find a club, it’s football and it has happened to a lot of players, so you naturally have a lot of thoughts in your head and you think negative things: ‘What should I do? Should I stop? ‘ But it is not an option for me, since football is everything. “

A Gai Assulin, now, with the passage of time, does not bother him that they compared him with Leo Messi, although before it was a pressure. “Everyone likes to compare in football and for me it is a great compliment, but Messi is the best footballer in history. Sometimes it is not good that you take it badly, since the expectation is that you go to the field and do the same as Messi all the time. In all the clubs they compared me to Messi, they thought I was going to be Messi and he would score 50 goals a year, so the comparison at that time was not so positive. “

“Right now, after being in so many clubs, I see it as something positive and I take it as something that has not been said about so many players. Messi is the best in history, so it is good that they compare me with him for something I did well at that time, “he says.

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