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Ferran Torres found the turning point he needed in his impressive performance against Cadiz on Sunday in La Liga. Before going to Manchester for the return leg of the Europa League against United, the former Valencia striker produced his best version of himself.
In an informal meeting with the press, Ferran Torres admitted that he had hit “rock bottom” at some point this season and explained that thanks to his family, his closest environment and the help of a psychiatrist, he learned to “value” what he had and “enjoy football again.”
And the “new” Ferran adds: “I wanted to be a player, but I am not. I became obsessed with goals. I didn’t care about bad matches, I just wanted to score. I’ve always been a tackler, dribbler and assister. Normally I was also successful in front of goal, but I had a bad period and I didn’t know how to manage it.
A bad last season last season and the foot injury he suffered on the first day of pre-season was the beginning of his decline: “It affected me a lot. I entered a well and couldn’t see the way out. It has never happened to me before.”
The former Manchester City player, who loves competition, explained, as he made clear last summer when he publicly asked for Ousmane Dembele to continue, that the first thing he did to start regaining his form was “remember how he got here. When I played badly I sank,” he recalls the beginnings of his recovery process.
Ferran has no doubts that psychiatrists in the world of professional football will become increasingly “normal”. And a confession: “I assumed that naturally. There are weeks when I don’t go to the psychiatrist and others when I go three times. We don’t always talk about football, we also talk about private life.
Source: Sport
