Between football and social media. A nice chat that Milan Badelj with today’s edition of Gazzetta dello Sport. The Genoa captain, who has no web profile, said: “Because I feel very good without it: if you go out and get to know each other in person, it’s better. I don’t live on the phone, I prefer to meet with people I feel good with , and with them I want to be without a phone: some people on social media manage to sell themselves as different from what I like.
The midfielder then focused on his younger dressing room mates: “They are very good boys, polite, you can see they went to school, but there is a lot of distance between us. Greater than what there was 15-20 years ago between us and the old men in the locker room. For example? When I was 18, my best friend and I were playing at Dinamo Zagreb. One day we were in the shower, there was an opening above the door and a teammate threw a bucket in from above ice water. Today these things are no longer done, because the kids don’t think about it. They are busy shaking. Before, we argued more but we also spent more time together.
The locker room was like a family. And then the footballers were legends. Now everyone sees what you ate, every day, and so you are less idealized.”