The myth of Madrid’s nightlife and how soccer players live it has given much to talk about. Cassano admitted in her day that parties, sex, chocolate … were key to her failure in the Madrid -and regretted it- and now it is Wesley Sneijder the one who confesses, in an autobiography published tomorrow in the Netherlands, that he was not as professional as he should have been in his Madrid stage. That would end up costing him his marriage and leaving the white team after the arrival of Florentino Pérez.
“I was young and I liked success and being the center of attention. But things went wrong there. There were no drugs, but yes alcohol. I got used to living like a star. You are adored as a player of the Real Madrid and he went down the street spending thousands of euros and paying people things. I can’t say that he deprived me of anything. They told me it wouldn’t last long like this. I played pretty well, but they said I could have done even better, “says the Dutch international.
Sneijder He admits that his divorce did not help him either and that, all together, it ended up affecting his football career: “I was alone and saw little Jessey very little. I could only be alone … and I did not realize that the bottle of vodka had become my best friend. Physically I didn’t realize it. The next day I woke up as if nothing had happened. I kept playing, but getting worse and clearly less concentrated. I was lying to myself saying that everything was going well and I clung to my football intelligence. I sank physically. I ran less, although I hid it a lot with my technique. I also thought that no one would notice. My attitude was unworthy of the Real Madrid“.
His numbers in Madrid, logically, fell and after a brilliant first season (38 games, 9 goals and 9 assists) in the second, 09/08, he only played 28 games, scored two goals and gave two assists.
In the end, he would end up going to Inter de Milan, where with Mourinho he would reach his highest level, win the Champions League and fight for him Golden Ball in a spectacular 2010, but he will always have the thorn to succeed in Madrid. The Dutchman was only able to fulfill two of the five seasons he had signed, a moment that he also narrates in the book. “Mijatovic, who was the sports director, informed me in Schiphol of how the transfer was going to take place. He was with my agent and took a piece of paper from his pocket. I can still see him making that gesture. He opened it and I saw everything: three million per season. Five-season contract. At Ajax he earned a million. Gross. “Take it or leave it,” he told me. We took it, we said Soren and at the same time. The transfer was closed at 27 million euros, “he says. .
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