Steven N'Zonzi, in a training with the Seville FC

The origins of Steven N'Zonzi

N'Zonzi, the boy that dreamed to be as Okocha or Ronaldinho

Published:10/11/2016 - 00:09h

Updated:10/11/2016 - 00:47h

They are very curious the origins of Steven N'Zonzi, mediocentro of the Seville FC that it could be the perfect substitute of Sergio Busquets in the FC Barcelona. A man that had a bad time to his arrival to Seville by fault of the heat... And the salmonella

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Curious, very curious is the life of the mediocentro of the Seville FC that now it hallucinates to half world Steven N'Zonzi. A humble man to the that do not like him the focuses and that has struggled all his life for turning into professional footballer. Since it saw to Okocha and to Ronaldinho with the T-shirt of Paris Saint-Germain, Steven knew that the his was this of the balompié. It grew and it was forging his football until his arrival to Andalucia. 

The own French footballer recognised in an interview to the months to arrive to the Sánchez Pizjuán the bad that was going through it the change of climate. "At the beginning I had difficulties by the time, a lot of heat. I happened it really bad. The time does the difficult things for everything", recognised for "The Desmarque". A N'Zonzi that to the little to arrive suffered a salmonelosis that put him in check.

"The salmonella finish . Never it had happened it so bad in my life. It thought that it went to die (laughs)", sustained. But happened already the bad while and after a season in the Spanish football, the mediocentro with Congolese ancestry remained surprised by the tactical intensity that exists in LaLiga.

N'Zonzi, a mediocentro to the that likes him distribute

"In Spain, the football is more tactical. I thought that after having played in England already had tested the most intense championship, but was made a mistake. It is true that the duels have more impact that there. They are the two championships of higher level", had to well say. 

One of his secrets is that it grew following to two cracks of Paris Saint-Germain as they are Okocha and Ronaldinho Gaúcho, to the dessert crack of the FC Barcelona: "Okocha is the player that more liked me and did me want to be footballer, the same that Ronaldinho".

Perhaps of them it has "sucked" the offensive game that so much likes him practise, although it was from the mediocentro. Although it is a player with a physicist imponente given his height, his quality allows him go out distributing the game and always in contact with the balloon. "Can adapt me to both styles and the two like me", confirmed. This is Steven N'Zonzi, a man forged to himself same to the that the Barça does not lose eye. 

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