The mourning of Ezequiel Schelotto, 33, bad with Gago and without a cane: “They are pushing you to retire and I don’t want to”

In August of last year, Ezequiel Schelotto He left racing in the way I didn’t want to: a aldosives in a loan I wasn’t looking for. Six months later, without the club after canceling his contract, he admitted he couldn’t train for three days because he didn’t have the mental strength. “They push you to retire and I don’t want to retire”he expressed.

“I’ve spent this month training alone and I haven’t been able to do it for three days because I don’t have the strength to continue enduring a situation like this. I watch the games and I’m at home, unable to do what I fought so hard for. Now at 33 I don’t even want to pity anyone, I don’t want them to hire me for coming here. But I wanted to tell my side of the story because some clubs don’t know about it,” he said on 90 Minutes (ESPN).

He Greyhound He clarified that he has spoken “with three or four clubs directly”, because today he doesn’t have a representative, but “in all of them as if it weren’t one thing, it was another”.

“They recently called me from a First Division team, with a coach I appreciate, but when they look at how long you’ve played it’s a hindrance to everything you’ve done. Why did I play 16 years in Europe? Because due to an injury that can it happen to all players who can no longer play? They don’t look at how you are after the injury, but how many games you have played“, he complained.

Similarly, Schelotto explained the background to his departure from Racing. “I’ve always liked them coming to me up front. When he calls me Víctor (Blanco), which he really appreciated, I told him ‘Put the number, I want to play football’. I played for six months and got injured. I was out for almost nine months with a ligament tear at the age of 32. It was difficult and Racing’s 2021 was not the best,” he began.

“A coach comes along to whom the same thing happened to me five other times… I didn’t like how (Gago) handled me. I thought it was a reward for the work that I returned to football. But I went to the bank 12 times and it didn’t work out even though the team won 4-0. I felt like it wasn’t worth it anymore,” she recalled.

“And I go to Aldosivi almost without realizing it because, in the match that Racing drew 3-3 with the Tiger, I was changing to take the field and they told me ‘We send you to Aldosivi on loan’. I was surprised. The managers with the technical staff told me,” added the former Brighton player in the Premier League and Inter in Serie A, among other clubs.

During the interview Greyhound Schelotto reiterated that he is not motivated by money and does not want to retire. “I do not accept that I am not in a club. She is stronger than me. Today I’m not ready to leave football. You have to go through a very long process to leave him”, he underlined. And he complained because “there are many free players” and the clubs see that “in the last two years” he has played “12 games” and they no longer bet on a player of 33 years since he injured his knee.

“I have a history behind me and they only see the last two years. I don’t get a sheet because I’ve played in England, Italy, Portugal, the Champions League, so they have to hire me. I’m not saying that. It’s not for the money. It’s just that I want to continue having fun and being successful, continuing to be the greyhound that made its history in Europe and couldn’t make it here,” he concluded.