In the full interview on the channel Youtube by Matteo Caccia, journalist for Il Sole 24 Ore, the Nerazzurri midfielder Nicolò Barella he spoke about his career, his disappointments and successes: “I lost a final of the U19 European Championship, I had to leave a World Cup with the national youth team because I broke my hand and my teammates finished third. Then I lost and I was relegated with Cagliari, I was relegated with Como, I lost a Champions League final, I lost a Europa League final. I know what it means to lose.”
The most beautiful side, that of victories: “Then on the other side I won championships, Italian cups, Super Cups, European championships, but I know what it means to lose. It’s much easier to explain what it means to win, you can see that I’m exploding with joy, while losing doesn’t know what happens afterwards. A bad summer, saying: ‘Will I ever play a Champions League final again? Will I ever play another championship like this again? Another Europa League final?’. So many things go into your head. I like having lost them, then I would have liked to win them all, because it is an incentive to try again the following year. In the minds of many it doesn’t work like that.”
Finally, a closing on the recent criticisms received: “The year of the Scudetto I felt alone. At the beginning of the year everyone criticized me and said: ‘But he’s not the Nicolò from the beginning’. I prefer to be unpleasant than to be pleasant by selling my image in a way that it isn’t.”