Álvaro Morata granted an interview in Movistar + to present a documentary in which he visible his anxiety problems and how he overcame a depression that was about to leave him out of the last Eurocup. A documentary entitled 'Álvaro Morata: They don't know who I am'. In the conversation, with Mónica Marchante and Carlos Martínez, the Galatasaray striker and the national team began talking about the penalty of the penalty that cost him the Nations League title last Sunday in Munich against Portugal: “I am very fucking, anything else I say is a lie. I have failed and it is already. But this time I will not stay in bed for a situation that is normal in life. I have the tools and experiences to pass it. I am the first one who announces that Spain does not win by not being able to put that penalty. I am proud to have fallen and go through this. Yesterday I went out with my wife to places where people saw me and it is something that would not have left home once. ”
Medicated in the Eurocup
Morata confessed his mood after all the past this Sunday for that error in the penalty shootout, for which he has received death threats on social networks: “Life is like that. You have to get up. I don't want to victimize myself. It is my experience. No one teaches you to manage these things when they arrive suddenly. There are many people who think of me and do not know who I am. It is part of my work. What I would like young people to see is that I have been in some moments being my worst enemy, without believing in me and with very low self -esteem. But I've been lucky with coaches like Cholo or Luis who have always helped me. ”
The Spanish international commented during the interview that “my personality makes everyone pending, I like that people who are close to me are at ease and give the best of himself. It was my function in the Eurocup.” And reveals some episode that lived with the medication he took during the Eurocup in which the companions were also present: “During the Eurocup I have had to live situations alone and others with the group. Once I fell asleep after taking the pill to rest, because I was medicated, while playing the console with Grimaldo and Baena and realized that something was not going well. There were people who helped me a lot like Rodrigo, Carvajal, Dr. Celada, Los Fisios … all who have been close to me have understood me. It is important that people know that nothing happens to be medicated. I am easy to catch when something happens to me. It shows. One day I argued with Rodri for a nonsense of a pin-pon match with the whole team in front and he realized. And he spoke with me and that is what in the end marks you more than winning a Eurocup. ”
Morata wanted to dissociate these vulnerability problems of his status as elite athlete, although there are many athletes who suffer them: “This is not related to your status. I have a wonderful woman, a family, the house I want, the car … the anxiety attacks are suffered 8 out of 10 young people and nothing happens to say it. Nothing happens. You need a person who helps you and offers you. Young and say 'this happens to me and I don't know how to manage it'. You are not a coward when you dare to say it and you have the courage to face it. ”
The Madrid wanted to give as an example the situation derived from the episode of Sunday in the Nations final: “It's how it happened on Sunday. I marty, I spend the fatal … but everything is not football. He had studied the penalty, where to throw it, the race. All. I had to throw, I faced with a decision and I am proud to do it. I have failed, like everyone who failed in life. I was clear where I wanted to throw it. The Mr. told me it was the room and assumed it. I thought I was going to put it. During the European Championship I would have raised me to launch it, but this situation was from the game. I entered eight minutes and thought I was going to score the victory goal. Before the Eurocup I was locked in my house, put in bed or telling the hours to go to it. ” Morata talked about social networks and the danger they entail: “Now with Lamine, the boys who are 14 or 15 years old and are in a cadet see Lamine be the best player in the world with 17 and that can frustrate them. There are many people whose happiness depends on social networks. No one forces you to have them, but nobody teaches you to handle them. There must be limits. ”
Future in the selection
On his future in the selection and his participation in the summer World that comes, he also pronounced: “I need to think about the future in the selection and that time passes. Out of respect for the fans, my colleagues already Luis de la Fuente, who has given me life. I have to see what is good for the selection and then for me on a personal level. There is a team with very young people and there is an amazing generation. If I am there I will enjoy them and if not, I will be the first to be encouraging. I am in the World Cup at the Staff. I don't know what is going to happen. ”
Álvaro also valued the support of his wife and family: “At one point we were two proud kids, having four children, not knowing how to face one more situation in life. My wife and children encourage me to continue fighting. But it is not a matter of continuing to fight. We must analyze what is good for the selection and what is good for me. I am very impulsive and my wife helps me a lot in that. The other day I talk to her after failing the penalty and told me to be calm. It is my personality. ”
Morata wanted to see the glass half full, although his problem often prevents him from doing it: “I don't want people to think I do this to be sorry. I have wonderful people around me that follow me. I am a lucky one who has won almost everything that can be won in football and has played in many clubs and many countries. My parents tell me, that I think of the countries that I have visited, the colleagues I've had, the stadiums I have played. In all the clubs that I have been everyone, it speaks well of me and that is also a success for me. “And he concluded warning his plans for the coming weeks: “I do not think about my future. I hope to close Sunday's wound and enjoy the family and vacations because it has not been the best season for me. And let me thank all those who have always helped me, who are many. ”
