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A damning interview with Irene Guerrero has emerged... rough translation below -
About her time in United:
She talks about his bad experience in Manchester. What happened to him?
I arrived in England with a lot of confidence after being world champion, a great desire to work and an immense predisposition to adapt as soon as possible to an English League that for me was a challenge. I did everything in my hand to get a chance, but when the weeks go by and it doesn’t reach you, you see how you get tiny.
It was hard for her to play...
In the first game they gave me minutes [on October 22, 2023 she participated in the victory against Everton by 0-5 leaving the field in the 83rd minute] I could make myself noticed giving a goal assist, but I received a ticket that injured me. What was going to be a minor injury ended up leaving me out for four months because I had touched the internal ligament of the knee and in that time the team was formed. When I returned to training in January I had minutes in some games between January and March [she played in two League games, three of the FA Cup and one of the FA Cup League - the only one in which he was a starter -], but then there is a period that I play absolutely nothing. I understand perfectly that a coach may like a player profile more than another and absolutely nothing happens, but that they deny you the opportunity to show your level or potential and then see if it fits or not in your game model...
I notice her frustrated...
It was hard for me to fit in at that time. I wondered: ‘Why do you come to sign me, pay for a transfer and give an exchange player if then you don’t count on me?’ Mentally reconcilining that was not easy. The support I had from my family and my partner helped me to bring out the positive part and put on the work overalls. When I touched the bottom I began to approach it in a different way. I had moments of weakness, of not understanding why I had left a place where I was well and I thought I could compete to go to a club where I was being denied as a soccer player. I learned another facet of soccer, but I took very good companions who made me feel at home and an experience that is forging you as a person and as an athlete.
Did you need help to manage what happened?
I remember days that in the middle of training, seeing that every week exactly the same thing was repeated, I had to get into the bathroom to cry, wash my face and leave as if nothing had happened. I tried to let anyone notice and not affect the team, but I had a very important, very hard mental limit. I also went through moments of sending everything to hell, especially when I got home and said to my partner: ‘I want to go home, I don’t want to be here. I’m not enjoying, I’m not happy and I feel like it’s not worth everything I’ve sacrificed to come to another country. The reward for the effort and work I am doing on a daily basis is zero’.
Who did she lean on to get out of the well?
In those moments of weakness it is important to be surrounded by the right people who know how to lead you and who help you approach that path in a positive way. I’m grateful and I’m lucky that those people didn’t let me throw in the towel. I remember something they told me and that stayed in my head: ‘How are you going to allow a person’s decisions to make you throw away all your professional career years, everything you have lived and everything you have sacrificed just because they are not knowing how to value your potential or are not finding the time to give you that opportunity?’ I focused on working more. I trained with the team in the morning and in the afternoon I went to the gym to be stronger and better prepare for what could come in the future. I wanted to be ready both mentally and physically to be able to show that Irene Guerrero is still left for a while.
Did you look for a quick exit?
I never offered to leave Manchester United, but there were clubs that, seeing the situation I was in, without playing and without opportunities, showed their interest. I had two years of contract and therefore whoever wanted me had to assume a transfer, so among the clubs that appeared I think I chose the best option. The personal proposal and the sports project was why I ended up deciding on America.
translated with inbuilt translate function in safari (google translate)
