2023-12-27 09:05:14
Los The early years of James Rodríguez’s career made him worthy of very high qualifications and praise.but after their time in Envigado, Banfield and Porto, they began to get to know each other. problems at AS Monaco, Real Madrid, Bayern München and Everton. And although in his short and inconsequential time in Qatar football not much was known, he himself took it upon himself to talk about what he experienced there.
Right now, when his future and continuity in São Paulo, a club he arrived after a controversial departure from the Greek Olympiakos, is in doubt, he himself spoke about what he did not like about the culture and stay on Qatari soil. Remembering that he almost arrived there, promoting football in that country for the 2022 World Cup, but Rodríguez could not even qualify with the Colombian National Team.
In AS Monaco there was a complication with Claudio Ranieri’s approach, in Real Madrid his differences with Zinedine Zidane and Rafa Benítez were known, at Everton he also met Benítez, at Olympiakos there were rumors of indiscipline in the press and the player’s annoyance after the change of coach. But the steps and exits from Bayern München and Al Rayyan have local customs and environments in common.
What did James Rodríguez say about his time at Al Rayyan in Qatar?
In conversation with Globo Esporte from Brazil, James was sincere and with some laughter and a good attitude, revealed that there were episodes in Qatar that he didn’t like them and they made him uncomfortable in living together. First, he remembered what happened at the time of eating and sharing:
There everyone together eats with their hands. They shared it with me and I said: ‘No, thank you.’ He asked about the cutlery and they told me: ‘No, with my hand’ and I responded: ‘You’re crazy, I’m not going to eat with my hand’
In addition, he experienced uncomfortable moments during training and practices and this is what he confessed: “Qatari culture and life is very difficult, it was a country in which it was difficult to adapt. You know that, in football, everyone takes off all their clothes when taking a bath. They told me, scared, that this is not could do”. In that same journalistic conversation, James Rodríguez spoke about the difficulties and complications that he has experienced in Brazil, since he arrived in August 2023:
I thought football was less physical, but here it is very physical. The games stop a lot due to fouls, they also crash a lot. I thought it was more technical. There are high quality players, but the game is very physical. But when you play with a team that has quality it is much easier
And regarding the language, having lived in Portugal and then sharing with Brazilian and Portuguese teammates, it has not been complicated for the 10 of the Colombian National Team: “I speak English and Portuguese, I did it at Real Madrid with Cristiano, Marcelo and Pepe, it was easy. Also Spanish, French a little. In Germany it was difficult with German. I speak English because everyone speaks it, but that language is very difficult to learn”.
James Rodríguez and his background in Germany
Precisely, What James said about his time at Bayern München, Teutonic and the language, leads us to remember that he also said that he had problems adapting to the culture of that country and of Munich. In a interview with speaker Daniel Habif, in August 2020the left-hander said about his life on German soil:
First, the cold. Afterwards, they are also very cold people, although I received spectacular treatment, they loved me a lot at the club, living is not easy, it is cold with -20 degrees. There were days when I went to work at 9, I turned on the car and the temperature was -28. I say: ‘What am I doing here? What am I doing here with -28 degrees?’… Munich is a city that has a lot of quality of life, but I couldn’t be comfortable
Regarding what was happening in life, outside of training and games, Rodríguez praised the mentality of hard work and it seems that he expected something else: “They only think about work, work and work. They are machines, they are incredible. You get there: ‘Hello, good morning’, they change, they train and: ‘Bye, bye’. Each one with their life, they train and are ‘little machines’. It’s incredible.”.
But if the temperature thing felt like an excuse at the time, what James himself said about the German language was what led many to criticize his attitude in being able to adapt to a club the size of Bayern München:
German was very difficult for me, I didn’t feel like it and I didn’t want to either. I told the (German) teacher that I had the first 4 months: Look, I’m not going to waste your time and I’m not going to waste your time. I don’t want, I don’t want, I don’t want. I don’t want a language that didn’t make me want to learn, like I didn’t want to
Unfortunately, James’ excessive sincerity has led to him often being singled out for what he thinks, believes and says. And now, when it became known what he experienced in Qatar, that atmosphere that he had when he left the Munich team is revived.
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