The great dream of all footballers is to become world champion and that achievement was achieved by the Spaniard Joan Capdevilawho in 2010 made the Olympic tour in South Africa.
The former left back is now working at Espanyol de Barcelona, and is also dedicated to telling his experience in football with conferences, which are based on his book “Permanently Prepared”, which is available for footballers and also ordinary readers and currents.
Capdevila has a lot of relationship with Chilean football, which is why he did not hesitate to answer the call of RedGol to talk about Matias Fernandezhis former teammate at Villarreal.
“I’m going to tell you one bad thing and one good thing about him. The bad thing is that he didn’t invite me to his tribute match and I’m angry, I’ve never been to Chile, and I would have liked to be there (laughs)… it’s a joke,” the former Spanish national team said at the outset.
Matigol’s career
Matías Fernández did everything in Colo Colo in 2006 and was acquired by the Yellow Submarine, where he shared with Capdevila and that is why he knows him well.
“When I arrived at Villarreal he was much younger than me, it was clear that he had a great future ahead of him, he was one of the footballers who did things that were out of the ordinary. It is also true that Villarreal at that time worked well with South American countries and brought in big stars, and Fernández was one of them,” he commented.
“The truth is that he was an extraordinary companion, the truth is that he didn’t talk much, he was quite quiet, he had that shyness of youth, but I have great memories of him. I think he had few options because he was very young at that time,” Capdevila added.
Finally, Joan Capdevila spoke about what many think. What would have happened to Matías Fernández if his personality was different?
“We all think that if he had had more personality he would have gone further, all the players think that, except Cristiano and Messi, I think the rest of us always think that we could have done something more. In the end, everyone is where they deserve, I believe that he was in great teams, you can always improve, but Matías was in great teams and he should be satisfied with his career,” concluded the 2010 world champion.
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