Shaqiri: “Every player who comes to a Euro Cup wants to play 90 minutes”

Xherdan Shaqiri, footballer of the Swiss football team and with his ownership in doubt for his team’s first match in the Euro Cup against Hungary, He stated that any player who goes to a big tournament always wants to play 90 minutes of each game.

Shaqiri will face his seventh major championship with Switzerland. At 32 years old he is already a veteran of the Swiss team. He has always been one of the indisputable ones for all of his coaches, but on this occasion, his departure from European football to play for the Chicago Fire of the MLS has been able to undermine his indispensable role under the orders of his coach Murat. Yakin.

“Every player who comes to a Euro Cup is a professional and wants to play 90 minutes. In the end, the coach decides the lineup. I am in contact with Murat and if I’m not in the starting eleven, I will do everything I can to help the team,” he declared.

Asked about some words from his coach after the last friendly in Switzerland and in which he said that Shaqiri couldn’t string together 90 minutes twice in four days, he seemed surprised: “Did he really say that? I’m here to help the national team achieve something great again in a great tournament,” he said at a press conference.

After accumulating many final phases and a large number of matches in big European clubs, Shaqiri said he still wants to play football: “I get out of bed and I want to play. I enjoy it. Especially the big events, which are always something special”.

“The ambient is very good”

“The atmosphere in the team is very good, we have to take it with us to this group, which is not as easy as many people think,” he added. He also spoke about his future with the Chicago Fire and acknowledged that his experience has not been good. The Swiss midfielder hinted that his near future will be in a European club.

“You have to draw the right conclusions and make the right decisions to be able to get back to the playoffs (with the Chicago Fire). I live day to day. It’s hard for me to say where I will be in two years. One thing is clear: my contract in Chicago it expires in winter and the tendency is to say goodbye and return to Europe. We’ll see, but I’ll stay calm. “I still feel good and returning to Europe would also be important for the national team because of the pace of the game,” she commented.

“My contract in Chicago expires at the end of the year and the tendency is to leave. I live more in the present. It’s hard to say exactly where I will be in two years. Also if I will continue playing in the national team. The desire is to play in Europe next year. Is that Switzerland? We’ll see. In Europe I want to regain my rhythm so I can continue being a topic in the national team. “I feel good and I really want to play football,” she noted.

Likewise, he referred to the great season that his teammate Granit Xhaka completed at Bayer Leverkusen after winning the Bundesliga for the first time in the history of the German club.: “I was very happy for him because he was able to win the league title in Germany. He came with a lot of confidence in himself, even more than he already has. That’s good and now we want to achieve something together,” he concluded.