After passing through important teams such as Athletic Bilbao, Juventus, Sevilla, Tottenham and Napoli, the tall forward currently plays for Udinese, a club that runs in the middle of the Serie A standings. He arrived there from Napoli, where it came from due to lack of opportunities in the last season
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The veteran Spanish striker Fernando Llorente recently signed with Italian Udinese, after his passage and his controversial departure from Napoli. This week, he granted one to the program “El Larguero” and took the opportunity to confess the reasons for his departure from the Neapolitan team, as well as spoke of other details and experiences that he has lived during his extensive career in football.
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On his time at Athletic Bilbao, where he lived his best years. “I am grateful for everything he gave me. It makes me sad to leave that way. It was very hard to go a year without playing. With me things did not get along and I had to make a decision. (…) It is the club of my life. and the one I grew up with. If life leads me to return to Bilbao, fine, but if it doesn’t happen I’m going to cry. “
On the messages he receives from the Athletic fans. “I have a lot of people in favor and people against. I don’t know what would happen. There are people who may be hurt because I left. Whenever I have tried, you have not achieved anything. They only remember when I left. All that they filtered then are the ones that they benefited the club. “
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On his departure from Napoli. “It is not easy when you do not play and when you see that they do not count on you. You feel undervalued. It is difficult to fight like this, but despite that the opportunities did not come. (…) When I arrived, they signed two players who had to play by decree Before me (Osimhen and Petagna). Gattuso arrived at a club where two strikers signed him, it is normal that he gives them confidence “.
About Italian football. “Fate brought me here. It is a league that is not easy. It is tactical, the teams are locked behind with a defense of five. The nice thing is that I have been able to enjoy three major leagues. (…) In Udinese I am having continuity and I I feel happy. In Naples I was missing. Physically I feel fine. “
On the best forwards of the moment. “A very strong one of my characteristics has just come out in Norway (Erling Haaland, Borussia Dortmund). I think he could play in either of the two greats (Real Madrid and Barcelona). Haaland and Kylian Mbappé are the two players of the future.”
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