The goalkeeper title of the Apoel of Nikosea, Urko Pardo, happened eight years forming in The Farm and remembers to perfection some vivencias in the FC Barcelona, as when Luis Enrique and Pep Guardiola kicked him some penaltis after a training
In an interview conceded to the newspaper "MD", Urko Pardo has spoken of how formed in the rows of the FC Barcelona during eight years for afterwards test luck in distinct teams of Europe before recalar in the Apoel of Nikosea, where has consecrated like the best goalkeeper of all Cyprus and one of the best players. The guardameta of Basque father and Galician mother remembers with nostalgia the times in that it saw in direct to Andrés Iniesta play and, after some that another training, Luis Enrique and Pep Guardiola kicked him penaltis. In spite of everything, never could debut in the Camp Nou after in 2003 suffered a break of ligaments.
"It was in the Camp Nou, in the last training of that campaign. I did not arrive to contest an official party in the Estadi", has signalled, before adding that "being juvenile called me to a training and remained me afterwards so that Guardiola and Luis Enrique launched me penaltis. I think that I stopped one, but do not remember it well". Urko Pardo coincided in the juvenile of the FC Barcelona "with Iniesta, with Valdés. Messi did not live there, although I coincided in inferior categories. It was an equipazo. They played Valdés, Arteta, Nano, Trashorras, Babangida...". Besides, it stands out that in the school of the FC Barcelona "from small teach you to not throwing the balloon, to want to play always are where are. It is what has done to the Barça the best team of the world".
Pardo, in fact, feels a big predilection to Andrés Iniesta. "Perhaps for having coincided with him. I have seen him play the same in the field of the Damm that now in the Camp Nou. In a field of earth he did perfect oriented controls, passes to the gap". On the party of this Wednesday against the FC Barcelona, ensures that they do not come to "do us photos. We will try to take out a good result in spite of the difficulty. Already we have experience in Europe".
And it stands out, finally, the big importance that has the football in Cyprus. "It lives with a lot of more intensity that in Spain, sometimes too much, like the incidents that produced at the end of the past League". And it has spoken on the growth of the football in this country, that has to also "to that a lot of foreign players choose to go because economically we can not us complain. There are teams of the First Spanish Division that could not pay some of the index card of here".
Carlos Domínguez
@CarlosDomnguez1
"It was in the Camp Nou, in the last training of that campaign. I did not arrive to contest an official party in the Estadi", has signalled, before adding that "being juvenile called me to a training and remained me afterwards so that Guardiola and Luis Enrique launched me penaltis. I think that I stopped one, but do not remember it well". Urko Pardo coincided in the juvenile of the FC Barcelona "with Iniesta, with Valdés. Messi did not live there, although I coincided in inferior categories. It was an equipazo. They played Valdés, Arteta, Nano, Trashorras, Babangida...". Besides, it stands out that in the school of the FC Barcelona "from small teach you to not throwing the balloon, to want to play always are where are. It is what has done to the Barça the best team of the world".
Pardo, in fact, feels a big predilection to Andrés Iniesta. "Perhaps for having coincided with him. I have seen him play the same in the field of the Damm that now in the Camp Nou. In a field of earth he did perfect oriented controls, passes to the gap". On the party of this Wednesday against the FC Barcelona, ensures that they do not come to "do us photos. We will try to take out a good result in spite of the difficulty. Already we have experience in Europe".
And it stands out, finally, the big importance that has the football in Cyprus. "It lives with a lot of more intensity that in Spain, sometimes too much, like the incidents that produced at the end of the past League". And it has spoken on the growth of the football in this country, that has to also "to that a lot of foreign players choose to go because economically we can not us complain. There are teams of the First Spanish Division that could not pay some of the index card of here".
Carlos Domínguez
@CarlosDomnguez1