“I’ve been burning stages little by little and now it’s been a boom”

The Spanish international footballer Marc Casadó has highlighted having “gone through stages little by little” until he became key in the midfield of FC Barcelona, ​​stressing that “now it has been the boom” of his career in the elite when he was called up with the ‘ Absolute red for the next matches in the Nations League.

“This has been the moment to break because I have always gone through stages. There are many people who have risen from cadet to first team, like Lamine [Yamal]that’s too much. But the majority have gone from cadet to Juvenile A. I spent two years in Juvenile B, I have done two years in Barça B. I have been burning stages little by little and now it has been the boom,” he declared this Thursday in ‘El Partidazo de COPE’ with Juanma Castaño.

“I think that all these stages that I have gone through have helped make me more of a footballer, more of a man. Everything that I have been learning now has helped me to be able to do better,” added Casadó, denying that he had considered leaving professional football when he was not playing. being younger.

“I have always enjoyed it a lot. I have never thought that I did it to achieve something. Of course you always have the hope, but I have really enjoyed what I did and I have always liked it,” he indicated regarding a path that now He has a stop in the senior team, under the orders of Luis de la Fuente.

In this sense, he admitted the rapport with the other players. “The truth is that the locker room has received me very well, there is a very good atmosphere, a very well-rounded team, everyone is very comfortable and that is good,” he said before identifying Pedri González and Dani Olmo as his teammates. closest in this call.

“They are the ones I know the most. Samu [Aghehowa] also, from the previous call for the U-21. But what I’m telling you, the truth is that people have welcomed me very well and I am very comfortable with everyone,” repeated a Casadó who did not know De la Fuente in person before this call.

“I met him yesterday, he also made me a small video to find out what he wants from me and the truth is that it’s very good,” he described the Rioja coach. “I had doubts about whether I could go or not, but I think the first time you don’t expect it, you’re not sure you’re going to go. But when I saw him I was very happy,” he recalled of the day of the call.

“I was at home, the video came out and I couldn’t hold it in anymore. I couldn’t wait to see the whole video, I got right to the end. I thought it would come out like that, but no, they made the video for DANA and such, and Then I looked at it all, but first I went to the end to look at it quickly,” he noted.

Thus, he talked about how his parents received the news and how they handle their son’s budding stardom. “I think the same as me. We handle it very normally. My mother did tell me ‘damn!’ the day of the Bernabéu and I started to really see what it is a little bit. Because you are there at the Bernabéu, you have always seen it on TV and you see the child there… He has started to realize it now, but we have always carried him. very normal, as if he were playing in the cadet team,” he insisted.

Not in vain, Casadó was the most outstanding in Barça’s emphatic victory against Real Madrid in that league match on October 26. “I felt comfortable on the field, that’s what I like playing most. And what I wanted was to win the game, that’s what I thought at that moment and that’s it,” summarized the culé midfielder.

“On a football field, I think it was the happiest day of my life,” he confessed, later adding that the best moment came “at the end because you start to assimilate it a little.” “At first, when I was playing, I only thought about winning the game. I didn’t think about ‘damn, I’m at the Bernabéu, I just gave Robert a pass [Lewandowski] and he put it in. No, I was thinking about what I had to do to win the game,” he reiterated.

In the same way, he defined the Blaugrana coach Hansi Flick. I think the locker room management is doing very, very well and, well, as you say, I think it has those who don’t play on the hook. Those of us who play are also all plugged in and I think that is very positive for the squad,” said the young Barça midfielder.

Despite his current importance in the core of the culé team, leader of LaLiga EA Sports, Casadó took a while to establish himself in the first team. “There are moments when those things come to your mind. As I say, at first I did have it a little worse at the beginning of last season because I expected to have a little more prominence; but well, it didn’t happen. And yes it is It’s true that later there were times when I couldn’t play with the reserve team either because the games coincided and such,” he lamented.

“At the end of the season I remember that I was with the reserve team much more. And in the end, that’s what I’m telling you, I have always felt comfortable playing football, it’s what I always wanted. If I couldn’t play with the first team , because I wanted to play with the reserve team to continue learning,” he said. “I think that has helped me a lot now, to be able to do things the way I am doing them,” Casadó added.

Asked what reference he has, he was blunt. “I have always liked football a lot, but of course, you started to understand it more in recent years. Since I started playing for Barça, for example. There I already understood more what football was and I began to pay more attention to players. And above all, Busquets is the one I have paid the most attention to because he plays in my position,” he stressed about the Barça legend.

“I COME HERE TO HELP THE TEAM IN ANY WAY”

In any case, he was cautious about his role in the games against Denmark and Switzerland: “I come here to help the team in any way and, if the coach thinks I have to play, then I’m going to give everything to do well.” “I cut myself off the field, on the field I don’t cut myself. I’m more embarrassing off the field, at first it’s a little difficult and such, but on the field I don’t usually have problems,” he reflected on himself.

Again speaking about the fight for the First Division title, Casadó was equally cautious: “We are in November, I think there is a lot to fight for and the important thing I think is to do things well to continue winning games and hopefully win.” the League”. And, in addition, he dealt with the recent arbitration controversies.

In this context, he did not give rise to conspiracy theories around the leadership of Barça. “I wouldn’t talk about that. But yes… I don’t know, from above it has been said that in theory the machine is fine. I don’t know, well they don’t have to say it outwardly, but they do have to see if it really has.” whether the machine is done well or not, because what you tell me is that with the eye it seems that it is not offside,” he alluded to Lewandowski’s goal disallowed from the VAR in the match against Real Sociedad.

That defeat (1-0) at the Reale Arena does not seem to have changed the roadmap at Barça. “We in the locker room talk about many things and above all I think there is a very good atmosphere and we laugh a lot,” he highlighted, thinking about the many culés names that reach the ‘Red’.

“Hopefully there can be many Barça players here in the national team because I think that right now we are all at a very good level,” he praised. “We are in November, there is a lot of League ahead of us and I think we have to focus on ourselves, on playing the game we are playing so far, continuing the same and being able to continue winning games,” Casadó concluded.