SebastianBlue
President, International Julian Alvarez Fan Club
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Perhaps this will help people around the world more fully appreciate our final day performances.
They think it is easy, but it isn’t. The pressure is like a lead collar around your neck. You need to have not only the talent but the mentality to get over the line. Especially when you go down a goal or two, as we have several times.
You have to back each other and yourself to pull one back. Then another. Then to find the winner.
You have to have the belief; to be able to see it as not only a possibility, but an inevitability.
And that comes with experience and leadership. It comes from the touchline, from a manager and coaches that never think it is over. It comes from strength and grit on the pitch.
Dortmund didn’t have that. To be fair, most teams in the world don’t.
What we have achieved—and the way in which we have achieved it—is astounding.
We may never get full credit for doing it over and over and over again. But we all know.
And we’ll always remember.
They think it is easy, but it isn’t. The pressure is like a lead collar around your neck. You need to have not only the talent but the mentality to get over the line. Especially when you go down a goal or two, as we have several times.
You have to back each other and yourself to pull one back. Then another. Then to find the winner.
You have to have the belief; to be able to see it as not only a possibility, but an inevitability.
And that comes with experience and leadership. It comes from the touchline, from a manager and coaches that never think it is over. It comes from strength and grit on the pitch.
Dortmund didn’t have that. To be fair, most teams in the world don’t.
What we have achieved—and the way in which we have achieved it—is astounding.
We may never get full credit for doing it over and over and over again. But we all know.
And we’ll always remember.