Ball – “Sometimes you have to fall to get back to the top” (Arsenal)

Swiss international midfielder Granit Xhaka, 30, is part of Arsenal’s Premier League coach, coached by Spaniard Mikel Arteta, and Arsenal’s top scorer scored the 1-0 victory over PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands), which ensured the English team qualified for the Knockout. A stage of the UEFA Europa League, left, regarding the success he now enjoys, after being unpopular in London, advice that could serve CR7 and the turbulent moment in his football career. united.

“In football, it doesn’t always happen: sometimes you have to go down there, fall,” admitted the Swiss BBC, who lost the Arsenal captain three years ago (November 2019). The club, Unai Emery (now at Villarreal) was whistled by Arsenal supporters, after a poor performance in the London derby against Crystal Palace that led to a draw.

Xhaka’s gestures and profanity towards Gunners fans had media coverage and repercussions on his career, forcing Granit, then, to apologize publicly, through his social media accounts. And he has had one foot outside Arsenal, where he has been since 2016.

Xhaka regained the joy of playing and the exemplary championship of someone who had already made 102 appearances (12 goals) for the Swiss national team with Spanish coach Mikel Arteta: after descending into ‘hell’ in 2019, he now knows success in the Premier League leaders.. the League.. and no Forget the coach’s role in rehabilitation..

After performing well with Seferovic and his teammates at Euro-2020 (played in the summer of 2021, remember), Xhaka is now ‘indisputably’ back in ‘gunners’, forming a pair of middle workers designed by Arteta with Thomas Partey, a must-see asset at the World Cup in Qatar.

“In 2019, I was, in fact, very, very close to leaving [do Arsenal]. And Attention: When I say it, I mean simply packing my bag and walking out the door. Mikel [Arteta] It was he who prevented me from leaving. Nonna has seen him before, but we had a good conversation. And I told him right away, in the first hour, that I wanted to leave Arsenal. Not for him, but for cramps and everything that happened. I didn’t think I had the conditions to wear the Arsenal shirt again”, this revealed Xhaka, to BBC Sport, remembering taking it off his shirt in the London derby, which infuriated the fans even more.

“However, I had hope that Mikel [Arteta]With her team and her ideas, she can change the state of things. I prepared myself for it. I’m not here because my dad is the coach and the poor guy if he doesn’t always pick Eleven to play his son! Me and I stayed because I think I have the quality to be a good player and at this club! I wanted to return the favor. That’s why I say football is not just about going up, sometimes you also need to go down to the top someday,” Xhaka said.

Chaka admits that after the tensions with his supporters, he had to be more modest and less pretentious. “Of course, after the harsh and ugly boos by the fans in the stands, he only had one choice: to leave the club. That was a lot for me! Who helped me in my first three years at the club? [2016 a 2019] He is no longer in the club. How did you deal with what happened? At that time, I was very strong. I had to. I didn’t want to go back and feel the same pain I did. Granit Shaka said, But I was too strong.

The good performance against Brentford, already this month (English Premier League), was worthy of forgiveness of ‘sins’ with the fans, as the Emirates national team stood chanting the name of the Swiss, which moved Xhaka, who also deserves Arteta’s praise.

“Currently [Xhaka] He feels that love and respect work both ways. Singing cheerleading in his name makes him play better and I’m happier, because he deserves it. How do we explain this? Consistency, day-to-day behavior, what he learned in his career, the desire to try to improve and look forward, were a recipe for the Spaniard’s success in explaining Xhaka’s massive ‘recovery’.

“When you do that, you make the effort, and usually good things happen,” Arteta said of one of England’s leading players: three goals and three assists in 14 games played this season with the “Gunners”, having regained the captaincy. The team, in the absence of Martin Odegaard, licking “wounds”.