Rafa Marin warns Juventus: “My Villarreal at home is strong. And on Napoli …”

Rafa Marin seeks his way. He is not in a hurry, and what has been done so far ensures a qualified and varied journey. Sivigliano went to Valdebebas ‘Fábrica’ Fábrica, the Real Madrid Cantera, and from there to Napoli. A season with little space and the loan to Villarreal.

Let’s make a summary with a view of the future, because she has several contractual options.

“Let’s say that for now everything goes well. Madrid has sold me to Napoli by inserting the possibility of a ‘recompra’ into the transfer. Napoli has lent me to Villarreal and I now only think of the current club, and for a very simple reason: it all depends on me. It will be my performance to write my future. We are at the beginning of the season and it is useless to think about the ending”.

Let’s take a step back.

“I arrived full of hopes at Napoli and I was very well. I played little, or very little, certainly less than I hoped, but when I was called into question I think I answered and in any case no regret or complaint: technically and humanly I grew up a lot, it was a year that enriched me a lot. Conte is a great coach and I was surrounded by great players. I learned a lot. In every situation. and then the environment of the city, incredible.

“Villarreal and Marcelino already wanted me in January. It was not possible to come then, I did it in the summer. I had nothing else in mind given the trust they demonstrated towards me, and I could not ask for more organized society, excellent environment, great technical quality, remarkable ambitions. And the plus to play the Champions League. I repeat, impossible situation to improve”.

He debuted in the Champions League with a defeat in London with Tottenham, an unfortunate game decided by an early mistake of your goalkeeper.

“It happens, we are human, not the machines. Everyone makes mistakes, more or less serious. It was not our best game but in the second half we had opportunities to equalize and I think we deserved more. We have lost, but in Liga they are going very well and now Juventus arrives”.

Not any opponent. She comes from Napoli, Renato Veiga from Juve herself, Buchanan from Inter …

“Yes. The stories are not lacking but in the end there are 3 points, as in Liga. Tough opponent, who has changed and is looking for his way, a bit like us. I foresee a complicated and balanced game, but we are here for this type of challenge, and we are strong at home”.

In a few weeks he played more than last season.

“Yes, and I am very happy. The player wants to play and when he does it everything he scrolls better. Things are going well for me and for the team but I repeat, nothing to say about what happened in Naples”.

The fact that Madrid has been held the opportunity to bring it back to Valdebebas is an incentive?

“I don’t know. They do it with all the young people who sell. It is something that is there in a corner of my head but honestly I don’t think about it, also because it is not good for things that are not tied to everyday life. I think only of improving and growing, I am young and I still have to do a lot of experience. Last year I have touched what we players like less, playing little, now at the moment I have space, we will see in the next few months”.

Madrid is the team that in the last 20 years has placed multiple Canterans in the 5 great European championships, 166.

“Because they do things well, they help to make the player progress but also, and perhaps above all, the person. They prepare you. Then it is clear that the road to the first team is close and complicated, sometimes it depends on small details, even on a pinch of luck, but the professional training is of the highest level. They teach you to win and to be always concentrated, inside and out of the field, and to face the real life with safety, which is sometimes different from what is being imagined. who dreams of being a footballer. ”

“For me it is a source of pride. I enjoyed it in my youth path to the European under 21 of this summer and now we will see. In the major national team among others in the middle of the defense there are two very young like Cubarsí and Huijsen who are excellent players, but the dream exists. And even more in the year of the World Cup: the dream is double”.

We close with Sergio Ramos, Sevigliano like her and childhood idol. What do you think of your latest musical production?

“A wonder. Many times when I come to train it on, I like listening to it a lot. His musical style, modern flamenquito, is also mine, so here it has a big fan”.