[Sport] Iker Casillas and his replacement in the national team: "He deserved an explanation"

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This Friday the last chapter of the documentary 'Hanging the wings' by Movistar has been broadcast, which tells by chapters the sports career of Iker Casillas. The former international guard analyzes his substitution with the national team in the 2014 World Cup and in the European Championship in France, that of his last match as a professional in Portugal and his candidacy to preside over the Royal Spanish Football Federation.

Substitution at the 2014 World Cup: "I think Some of us have earned the right to, at least, be the one to tell us whether or not we are going to be part of the team. After being with Vicente for eight years, plus another four in Madrid has known me more since I was 9, I think one minute I can explain it to you, even if you don't agree ".

Did you refuse to play against Croatia ?: "Well, when they asked me, I said that the best thing I could do was to continue with David. I did not see myself qualified to play that third game. If you won, you went to one side of the group; yes You lost, you went for the other one. Luckily I said no, because if that day we lost the game, as we lost 2-1, we would have gone the other way we went, that we had Italy. And I am very convinced of that, like the day of the final in Lisbon or the World Cup in Brazil, people were waiting to say that it was not right, that how Del Bosque was betting on Casillas and we lost 2-1 to Croatia ".

 

"They asked me and I said that it was best to continue with De Gea"
Iker Casillas

 

Controversy with Del Bosque: "I felt bad, annoyed, hurt, sad. I did not want more controversies, it came from previous controversies, I had come to be calm, I did not want more. That was my heart, which could not take it anymore."

Match against Rio Ave, their last match: "We had countless chances to win 3-0. In an absurd play they put us 1-2 and people began to lose our position. In the end, in an absurd play they made us the 2 -2, they tie us and there practically our options to fight for the championship vanish. That was the scene in which I lived my last football game. Four or five days later I had a heart attack. It seems like yesterday when I was playing football. football and I didn't think it was going to be my last game. I hadn't come back here. Going back to this field makes me remember again everything that happened that day and two days later. One day you're here and, in a matter of minutes, you can be elsewhere. It's life. "

Candidacy for the Federation: "There is always someone who tells you or what or tells you, because of the years you have been in the National Team. You have been thinking about it for many days and weeks. Many rides that I have taken in Porto by bicycle, a lot of reflection. A day you go to train and the next day you are preparing to be president of the Federation ".

 

"One day you are going to train and the next day you are preparing to be president of the Federation"
Iker Casillas

 

Casillas works with his team on the speech with which he would announce his candidacy. "It is easier to play before 50 thousand people than to be here before 10. If I see that things are not going the way I would like, which is to be elected president, then nothing happens."
Resignation of the candidacy due to confinement: "I am in Portugal and until July 1 they do not open borders with Spain. When one of the two candidates cannot move, you yourself realize that it is a capital obstacle. Therefore The best thing is to put an end to the issue of the Federation at this time and then we will see what we are going to do. "
Medical check-up: "I was running for 15 minutes. The first ones were smoother, but then they went up. All great and case filed. Everything is erased from your mind, you can lead a normal life and it has been a year of all this."
Return to O Dragao: "The last time I played in O Dragao was against Santa Clara. More than 14 months ago and today we have been proclaimed national champions. I am a little nervous to have stepped on the pitch again, I had not done it since a long time ago. It is a moment of farewell. Whenever there is a beginning there has to be an end. I am excited because I am living so many memories of the last five years that I have played football and I will always consider this my home.

 

"I hope there is a long way to go, but I've been living day to day for a long time"
Iker Casillas

Review of his career: "Just as there was a beginning in San Mamés, it also has to have an end. As a child I had the illusion of being the best in the world, I have achieved it five times. I was excited to win a World Cup with my country and I have achieved it. I was excited to win the European Cups with Real Madrid and I have achieved it. Maybe my end is not the end I dreamed of, possibly, but I have no complaints. Here we are, looking forward to putting stories into this life I hope he has a long way to go, but I've been living day to day for a long time. "
Will you return to Real Madrid ?: "Surely, I am convinced that one day I will return." (The documentary was recorded before the incorporation of him to the Madrid team was confirmed).
Casillas also remembers his trips by public transport to go to training in the beginning: "It took an hour or an hour and a quarter to get to training. It had been many years since he took the train to go to the Santiago Bernabéu."
Caption: "For me it is rare to see myself as a legend. It is rare and it even gives me a little respect."
Back view: "Everything went very fast. Much faster than I expected.