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Cassano: I've changed
Topic Started: Sep 25 2009, 10:23 AM (384 Views)
Ricky
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Antonio Cassano has given a very candid interview to La Gazzetta dello Sport, explaining how he has managed to turn his career around.

The 27-year-old Sampdoria striker has put in some inspirational performances this season, but past behaviour has made Marcello Lippi reluctant to call him up for the Italy squad.

He tells a story about his time in Spain, which is widely regarded as the nadir of his young career.

“We trained all week in Madrid. Then, given that I was out of the team, I took a private jet with my cousin Franco and we went back to Rome for three days,” Cassano revealed.

“It was there that I really looked myself in the face and said: 'you're heading for an ugly ending.' These are things I have never told anyone, not even my mother.

“I listened to Franco. I reflected on it and said to myself: 'this guy is right. I don't like myself anymore. Worse still, I am throwing my career away because of my lousy attitude. Now I am going to show him if I am truly a man. And considering myself to be such a man, something sprung up inside of me and I said: 'let's see where I end up.'”

Cassano then asked himself several other questions, all of which revealed just how different he is from the so-called Bari brat who used to play for Roma.

“If you were to ask me what I would like the most from life at this moment in time, I would respond: 'Nothing, who is happier than me?'

“Where would I be now if I had gone directly to Samp from Roma with all that Samp have given me and the atmosphere here? But lads the strongest team in the world called me. I had to go to Real Madrid.

“Sure, in hindsight it was a mistake, because what followed was a year out of the team, but it strengthened my spirit. I understood many things.

“In that period I did a lot of stupid things, which, looking back, I would pay not to repeat. Nevertheless, as Califano sang, when you go to play for Real Madrid, with all respect to the other clubs, 'everything else is boring'.”
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BALLBAG
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Good to see that he has been able to turn things around. I havent seen much from him but when I have seen him play he looks a very good player but maybe he is like Totti in the way that its not about trophies for him, he just needs to feel wanted and respected
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TheReturnOfTheKing
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he has always been a very good player

if he was this comitted when he was a youngster, he would be one of the best players in the world right now imo
Edited by TheReturnOfTheKing, Sep 25 2009, 02:10 PM.
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