Valdés: "The farewell of the FC Barcelona was not the wished"

The best goalkeeper of the history of the FC Barcelona, Víctor Valdés, has conceded an interview in which it has admitted that the farewell of the Barcelona club was not the wished "by fault of my character", and in which it has revealed besides a lot of other secrets of his professional career

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In an interview conceded to "RCN", Víctor Valdés has recognised that "surely the people of the Barça expected more than somebody like me, but separated me and me it recrimino". The one of Gavà has revealed multiple secrets along his professional career, as for example that when it was a boy could have him amputated the leg, and ensures that it never would go back to be goalkeeper. "No, it would not go back to be goalkeeper. It is a thing that surely would change. Always I have said that they did me think that served and by circumstances of the life was going up until professional. And here I had the luck that they trusted me. But it is not an easy way and has not compensated me the years that have suffered".

There are days in the career of Valdés in which it would have liked him disappear. "Claro that have days in that you wish not being here, because my history with the football resume in that they have done me think that served for this. Me autoconvencieron of small and has not remained me more remedy that accept it and take this way. It has been to work and work whatever happens and at the end have arrived to the peak. But if it had to speak of football of would speak of thousands of moments of suffering".

To Valdés does not like him remember statistical neither Zamoras. "It does not like me remember statistics. I am not good neither to remember the date of birth of my children? I know that there have been attainments very important, but always have said that for me the three main attainments have been the three Glasses of Europe won with the Barça. No it goes through me the head place in front a personal record to a collective title. Never I have done it".

It has showed very critical with his surroundings when it suffered the grave injury with the FC Barcelona. "I go to shelve to the people that leaves you only, go to shelve that the world of the football does you feel a lisiado... But I go to explain a that, thank heaven, lived: the injury did me go back to feel what is the life not being footballer. I went me to Germany to recover me, was difficult, but I went it to achieve yes or yes and whatever happens. The footballers live an unreal life. It went back the real life, to pay a coffee, to touch coins? And this cure of humility has served me now that have gone back to the activity like professional footballer. I come of three months in Augsburg, to buy my note of tram, to go with crutches, to be only. This no will remove it to me anybody".

Valdés, besides, has many win to disappear already of the focus mediático. "Never more I will be a súper-star, because I have been here (lesionado of gravity). And already I have said that the football separates you. You have you lesionado the knee? That it happen another. You no longer vouchers. But you go to cost, if you want to. And it is your strength of will the one who has to do you arrive. And that is the greater education. It does not like me the fame. When it turn off the light, I will be with the boys, teaching them what happens when it lights and wishing that it light them . But for me no longer, and I expect that when it finish they do not find me". The guardameta feels a big admiration to Messi.

"Pure talent. It has known to surpass year after year, with the pressure to be the best. Because he knows it. I have shared changing room with players with a talent out of the normal, Ronaldinho, Xavi, Iniesta ? But I Read always it has been a level above this talent. It has done me improve like person, as professional, like mate and like goalkeeper. Has ceiling? No".

And arrepiente of his farewell of the Barça. "That you separate you, and the people expects that you give more, that fulfil, that are here. Really the farewell that had of the Barcelona was not the wished by fault of the treatment that had to be still in Germany and by fault of my character: I separated me and I went me. The people surely expected much more of somebody like me. Surely me recrimino some attitudes of this type of my person".

Finally, Valdés has revealed that when were 12 years old could have him amputated the leg. "When it were 12 years old, and already it was in the Barça, began to feel a very strong pain in the adductor that afterwards went down me to the leg. After a week in the hospital without knowing that had at the end discovered that there was a bacterium that was beginning to eat me the bone of the tibia. It had gone in me by some wounds. They were bad moments because I saw that my family suffered, but by this angel of saves it that it always has looked after me after the intervention the leg grew to the pair of the another".