"I DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO REST"
Gündogan's 'stick' to Barça and Xavi for the number of minutes in 2023/2024
Ahead of Germany's debut at the European Championship, Ílkay Gündogan has reviewed how he is preparing to lead his team and criticised the fact that, during his first season at FC Barcelona, he had almost no rest.
Everything is prepared so that it begin the Eurocopa in Germany. It will be the selection directed by Julian Nagelsmann the one who go up the 'curtain' and of beginning to an uninterruptible month of football in research of the crown. This Thursday, Ílkay Gündogan has spoken on how prepares his selection to première in front of Scotland (Friday, 21:00 hours CEST) and how arrives to the tournament after a season in which it contested 4.180 minutes with the FC Barcelona.
It was a year retador for the midfield player Teutonic. Although it comported like the player more regulate of the team, had a weight very 'big' because it did not rest in front of the big number of drops that accumulated the Barça, especially in the centre of the field with the injuries of Gavi, Pedri or Of Jong, and finish adding more minutes that any another player.
The tiredness is there, as it has confessed, because it no longer is a young player. The 'consequences' will see them in the Eurocopa, although it keeps the illusion for being important for his country in a historical appointment with his fans and in which, besides, will be the captain of the team: "This season was intense to personal level. I played a quantity of minutes that think that never before had played in the Premier League and, to be honest, felt me like this because I neither am young. I did not have opportunities to rest because of the injuries in the team, so I played almost everything", said Gündogan.
Kroos And Guardiola 'cuelan' in the conversation
On the other hand, the Barcelona midfield player has not doubted in elogiar to his mate Toni Kroos, the one who is having a fundamental paper in this 2024 with Germany and the one who aims to be one of the decisive players in the Eurocopa, as it went it with the Real Madrid in LaLiga and Champions League. Of him, Gündogan has said that "know the difficult that is sometimes give the last pass. Give the last pass as it does it Toni Kroos is not so easy. His curriculum speaks by himself same. It is very important for us".
The ex of the Manchester City also has referred to the statements of Pep Guardiola in which it aimed that he was one of the most intelligent players "" to which had trained in his career. It has left clear that has been very important to work with the one of Santpedor: "I Have had the big honour to work to the orders of Pep. Any of my ancient trainers knows me so well like Pep. I gladden me of his words, have learnt a lot to his orders. I look forward to to do better to my mates and win tomorrow the first party".
