He does not miss football excessively and is “distracted by other things” such as the Kings League, a football competition he created with his company Kosmos. But Gerard Piqué still has time to talk about the current situation at Barça. He did so this Tuesday at the microphones of El Larguero de la Cadena Ser, placing special emphasis on the rupture of Gavi's anterior cruciate ligament during the last national team break.
The former culé central defender wanted to advise the Los Palacios footballer to “recover as best as possible” and “not to be in a hurry” with his recovery process. “It's very bad luck because he had already played a lot of games with Barça and the national team at the age of 19,” he explains about his former teammate. "Now he's going to stop for a while, he's a huge bitch and there's nothing positive to get out of him."
Furthermore, the businessman has commented that "when you are a player you want to hurry up and get to the first important competition", but even so he has stressed the importance of the midfielder returning "when he is well", since he has a career "of 15 or 20 years" ahead.
Gavi will miss Euro 2024 in Germany and could even say goodbye to the Paris Olympics that begin on July 26 next year. "He will be looking at the calendar. He will not come from a European Championship. He will have more," explains the former international.
Piqué has not missed the opportunity to talk about Barça's game and ratify the figure of Xavi Hernández as culé coach, whom he continues to see as "the same person he was as a player." Barça and that the hopes placed on the culé team for this season are affecting the Catalan club.
“In the preseason, with the signings, so much expectation was created and they were so happy that it made the fans' expectations skyrocket. This is partly good because it motivates the fan, but it can work against you if after a few days the game is over and the results are not what people expect," he explains.
The former defender states about Barça's game that "I don't want to get involved there because they have enough problems to make more noise." However, Piqué explains that if Xavi is “content and happy in his career, then that is what he wants to play.” Furthermore, he has sent a message to Barcelona fans saying that they must be “patient” with the Blaugrana team.
Regarding criticism, the Kosmos businessman understands that "when you have a long career in a club like Real Madrid or Barça, where you are obliged to always win every three days, you go through tough streaks." "If you want to make a career in these clubs, you have to live with these criticisms. It is the law of life in football. Any professional player who is in Barça has to learn to deal with it," says Piqué.
Gerard Piqué also qualifies his statements about Real Madrid's fourteenth Champions League, in which he stated that "for them it was just one more." "I don't want to take credit away from him, he has many incredible things: fighting until the end, epic comebacks...", he clarifies about the white club. “It's incredible, because it seems like it's like a demerit, but no. That with five minutes you can win the Champions League semi-finals is a good thing.”
However, he emphasizes that he comes from a team in which “the game is very important”, as well as “being superior to win”. “It happens in the five Champions Leagues that Barça wins. The five of them are also winning the league and being superior in all aspects to all the teams. "This is evidence and we can debate it because in the end this is football," argues Piqué.
