Alvaro Morata opened up on ‘Movistar+’ days after missing the penalty that cost Spain the Nations League. "I was clear about where I was going to shoot, but when I went towards the ball I changed my mind," he commented.
Alvaro Morata missed the penalty in the shootout that cost Spain the Nations League. Portugal triumphed and the striker gave an interview to ‘Movistar +’ in which he opened up. On the fateful night in Munich and other topics, such as his depression.
The captain of ‘la Roja’ did not hide: "The coach told me the penalty takers. He told me the fourth one and I knew where I was going to shoot, but when I went to the ball I changed my mind. It's a part of the game. I went in for ten minutes thinking I was going to score the winning goal".
The protagonist was left with the fact that he tried: "I always try to give it my all and many times it doesn't work. It's like what happened on Sunday. I torment myself, I have a hard time, but I can't stop living. Not everything in life is football. Many times I imagine the penalty. It's ten seconds with a very big difference, to be celebrating in the corner or to be like that. I can't do anything. It was my turn to take that penalty, I took it with determination and I'm proud to have done it. I missed, but that's how anyone can miss in life.
"Life is like that. You have to pick yourself up. In the end I don't want to victimize or anything like that. It's my experience. I'd like the day I retire to convey to young guys that this is a possibility. Nobody teaches you how to manage these things when they come all at once. There are a lot of people who have opinions about me but they don't know who I am," he added.
"What I would like young people to see is that I have been in some moments that I was my own worst enemy, I didn't believe in myself. The important thing is to talk to specialists, to people, to the people you are close to," Morata concluded.