Radamel Falcao García, former millionaire player during the match against Independiente Santa Fe for the date six of the final home runs of the Betplay Dimayor 2025 League
Photo: The spectator – José Vargas
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In a sincere conversation with his former companion Mario Suárez, Radamel Falcao García opened the heart And he reviewed some of the toughest and most decisive moments of his career.
From their days in Bogotá with Millionairesthrough the injury that left him Out of the 2014 World Cup in Braziluntil his decision of reject Real Madrid.
Anxiety in its passage through Millionaires
Falcao's return to Colombian football was far from being a simple path. The striker said that the pressure of arriving as a great figure of the championship led him to live anxiety episodes that he had never experienced before.
“When I arrived in Bogotá, people were very over, I felt very overwhelmed, I felt suffocated and I got to have episodes of anxiety. You can't breathe, you feel that you don't breathe and ended up spending the entire night without sleep. I felt overwhelmed and killed me, that I didn't know what happened to me and entered more anxiety, ”he confessed.
Vela nights were forced to even ask Alberto Gamero, an extreme technician from the Ambassador Club, a respite. “I woke up and told Lore (Lorelei, his partner) 'I feel that I drown' and I had to go out to the hall of the room because I felt drowned. There was a day that I told the coach, 'I didn't sleep anything, I spent the night awake; Let me rest '”.
Bogotá also took its toll in his family life. He could not move peacefully and the city's demands hit him strong: “Bogotá is a complex city. It is wonderful, it has a lot of wealth. Mobility is very difficult. For us, as a family, it ends up being complex. I can't go to a shopping center or everyone there, if you go to a restaurant you have to go for another door, or go to the cinema through another door. Sharing with the open -air family was difficult and people don't understand it, ”he said.
The adaptation to Colombian football was not easy either: “The fields are not like in Europe, you suffer, There are some fields that are like entering Miami's sand. The game ends up slowly, but the field does not give you speed, it eats your legs, ”he said.
The World Cup that was not
One of the most painful chapters of his sports life was written in 2014. The serious knee injury in a France Cup match with Monaco ended his dream of being in the World Cup in Brazil.
“I remember that night, they bring me private plane to my house and they already made calls. I already knew, the doctor had done the tests and the knee moved everywhere. They had not confirmed it to me, but I knew me inside. It was a difficult time, I asked: God, why does this happen to me? ”He said.
In the midst of uncertainty, he clung to the faith and birth of his first daughter. But no hope reached: José Pékerman waited until the end, wanted to carry it, but the reality weighed more.
“It was a very hard palazo. Inside, when I was injured I tried to be positive, I told me that I was going to do my best and then decide what we are. I think José (Pékerman) took me, he had faith and I wait until the last moment. I had to give the list and last night it called me to see what we were doing. I told him it wasn't. We were in concentration in Buenos Aires. I had not cried until that moment, but when they left on the bus and I went in the car with my friend, I broke up and couldn't take it anymore. ”
That wound is still open in the memory of the fans and Tigre himself, who ran out of his World Cup at the best moment of his career.
The frustrated signing with Real Madrid
In 2012, while the whole world talked about his goals with Atlético de Madrid, Rumors about a possible transfer to Real Madrid took strength. Falcao remembered him as an uncomfortable episode that never materialized, to a large extent because of the link he already had with him Colchonero Club
“He puts the napkin, I had Casillas there and I had the press of Atlético there, he tells me to hide the napkin. It was an awkward moment, I had Florentino there to sign the napkin. No, Real Madrid, I don't know how true it was that there were handles. They called me for a person from Real Madrid, obviously they had interest, but it was, I don't know, it meant a lot for Atlético de Madrid. A complex situation and I was already identified with Atleti and what it meant for them”, Recalled.
Love and loyalty to the rojiblanca shirt weighed more than any figure. And that signing, which seemed like a fact, He was alone in a rumor that never materialized.
Why never returned to Atlético de Madrid?
Falcao did not want to leave Atlético de Madrid, but the leadership had other plans. “For me that was a bit disappointing from Atlético de Madrid. I have no grudge or anything and I understand the situation, because the situation forces them to sell me, as they did with him Kun Agüero or with Fernando Torres. But I thought I was going to have an offer to try to retain, but I never received anything from them. I have a good relationship with Miguel, I never told him and I never talked to him, but I didn't see any kind of efforts to try to stay. On the contrary, it was where we can sell it in the best way, ”he revealed.
As they spoke with Mario Suárez, Falcao was close to returning to the mattress team before his second step in Monaco. However, The coaching staff did not approve.
“Someone from the coaching staff, it seems to me, And it's not the Cholo Simeone. People are not known and I think the situation could have been handled in another way, for everything I gave them and out of respect for people. It was a complex moment, You have to start from respect, because you are not a stranger”He said.
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