Lucas Torreira: “I don’t want to be a salesman, but I’m dying to play for Boca” :: Olé

For several years now, the Uruguayan Lucas Torreira, former player for clubs like Arsenal and Atlético Madrid and now at Galatasaray (a regular with the Celeste, too), He emphasizes, in different interviews, that he really wants to play for Boca. He has even been to La Bombonera several times. and he himself said that he talks often with Edinson Cavani and Juan Román Riquelme. And this Friday, for example, he once again emphasized his strong desire to wear the blue and gold, a challenge that he also highlighted as “the most important of his life”, neither more nor less.

“I don’t want to be a smoker, but I’m really dying to play for Boca. I’m very honest. And every time I have to speak, I speak very naturally and express my feelings because I have already learned in football that sometimes you have to deal with your feelings and the truth. I wish with soul and life to be able to play for Boca, I talk a lot with Román, I talk a lot. I am a good friend of Edi (Cavani) too and we have had our talks too, but I also understand the reality of the club, of the country, my reality also that today I am part of Galatasaray,” said Torreira in dialogue with Generación F (ESPN).

“I have just renewed my contract until 2028 and it is not easy. It is not that, even though it is a dream, one day I will wake up crossed and say ‘I am going to Argentina’, because it is not like that. I wish it were that easy and I had the possibility of coming. But I am clear that Galatasaray is going to be my last club in Europe and I want to come to Boca not when I am too old, because I consume a lot of Argentine football, social networks, you (journalists) who talk a lot, and it is not easy football,” added the Uruguayan.

Torreira, 28 years old and recent champion of the Turkish Super League with Mauro Icardi’s Galatasaray, also highlighted that playing for Boca will be the “most important” challenge of his entire life: “Boca’s is a very big shirt that everything The world is watching the club. There is not a day of rest. And I believe that to get to Boca you have to get there in the best way, so well, “This time I have to be in Turkey I will be preparing for that challenge that I consider is going to be the most important challenge of my life.”

“I went to see the 2018 final in Madrid, I went with Gastón Ramírez who is playing in Peñarol today. And I felt something for Boca, but from that day, from that moment, not because of anger but because of the sadness of having lost that final, Something else came out from within that told me ‘you have to be part of that club’. And for many years I have been fighting and fighting for that moment to come,” mentioned the Uruguayan, after being asked how his strong love for Xeneize came about.

“I remember a few days after my mother’s death I had spoken with Román, and there was the possibility but well, I was at Atlético and it was very difficult. I think that because of the history of the club, because of the players who have also past… The memories I have are the farewells to Riquelme, the one from Palermo too… When I arrived in Italy they compared me a lot to Tevez too, so that’s where I think it comes from,” commented

Despite being a regular with the Uruguay national team, Torreira was not summoned by Marcelo Bielsa for the friendlies prior to the Copa América. In that sense, the Galatasaray midfielder was surprised by his absence: “I was a little surprised by the selection because well, I had been in the national team for almost six years, having played in two World Cups, two Copa América… “And to go from being called almost every call to not being called is a little shocking, a little hard.”

“But I also understand the coach’s decisions. The team is at a very good level. If they have beaten Argentina and Brazil, which has not been beaten in a long time, and well on other days a great match with Mexico, I think that They arrive well at the Copa América. I envy them from my place and I have a great relationship with everyone, as also happens in the Argentine National Team. When you go to the national team you try to enjoy yourself, we had a great time. And today I have to be outside, but well, working and working, and thinking about coming back in the future,” he concluded.