These days, there is also a lot of discussion about the mental health of football players, and professional athletes in general. As a player, have you ever had any mental health problems, such as anxiety, depression, or anything else?
Of course, at first I felt insecure. Time really weighed on me, but in the end, you moved from training with 17 -year -old players to the press conference with 60 journalists and played in front of 100,000 people. Experience helps you handle things better. I think young people today have more difficulties, because what people think of you … Today, we are educated not from the inside out, but from outside to inside. That is, everything from outside comes to you, they affect you more. The educated person to believe that what others think is not more important than what you think there will be emotional stability in life and will be much happier.
Today, we think that only what others say is important. I dressed in a certain way and I liked it, and if they told you that I didn't wear it right now, it would affect you. The day that it does not affect you will be much better. Because we want to pretend that we are happy all day. And it is a big mistake. I would rather tell them: you are sad, okay. You are disappointed, it's okay, it will pass. Like happiness, it will pass. We lost, we died. It's okay to die. You must live with that.
Nowadays, we all want to be happy at all times and think that we are doing well at all times. And young people today, they have difficulty … my children have a bad time. We don't have many things; We are simpler, we don't have many options. When I was young, in my town, I remember spending all day in the square, on a scooter, on a bicycle, playing football or anything. I will go home for lunch and have dinner. Nobody met me in the town. Now everything is not like that. Young people do not leave the house. This great invention, telephone, appeared, and they stayed indoors every day.
But I didn't criticize them, because if I was born in this era, I would be the same. Like that. For us, people of the public, this process affects us to the maximum level, and that is why we are insecure, or feel bad, and we are criticized. And if you are not strong, you need the help of people like Montse, not to see things in the right nature, but to see the problem objectively. A person may open his heart and tell you: 'This has happened, you can't change it, but you can accept and treat it in a different way.' And football players are very vulnerable people.
