"Is it worth it for me to go to the National team to be insulted and whistled at? No"

The captain of the Spanish national team Alvaro Morata says he feels recovered from the mental health problem he suffered last year before the European Championship, but admits that “it is not worth it” to continue attending the call -up of the national team if it is to be “insulted and whistled at”.

Morata makes this reflection in the documentary that ‘Movistar Plus’ premieres this Tuesday in which he addresses the depression and panic attacks he suffered in his final stretch at Atletico Madrid, how he faced his recovery with the help of a specialist, as well as his coexistence and separation with his current partner, Alice Campello.

One of the factors that affected his psychological state was the media pressure and the criticism and insults received against him and his family for months by part of the fans in the stadiums, in his personal life and on social networks, which has led him to consider his continuity in the national team.

"Is it worth it that every place I go in Spain with my family I have unpleasant episodes and that people make fun of you, insult you and laugh at you? I don't know if it's worth it. Is it worth it to keep coming to the national team only to be insulted and whistled at in the stadiums where you play with the national team's jersey? It's not worth it," he argues in the documentary, titled ‘Morata: you don't know who I am’.

According to the Madrid striker, after winning the European Championship with Spain a year ago, he thought that "people would be more respectful." "If you love a person, I know it's soccer, you love them also when they are bad," he adds.

Morata's reflection on his permanence in the national team joins what he stated last 8th when he missed in the penalty shootout, which gave Portugal the Nations League title. "It's a possibility that I won't be in September," Morata said after the match about his continuity with ‘La Roja’ in view of next year's World Cup.