Lloris: Madrid would never celebrate losing the final…
In 2019, Tottenham played their first ever Champions League final. Mauricio Pochettino miraculously took charge spurs to Madrid, but the outcome of the match with Liverpool will not be the happiest ending for the London team. The score was 2:0, which left the London team once again without money. Years after what happened, French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris shared the amazing story of that final.
On the occasion of the publication of his autobiography “Hugo Lloris: Earning My Spurs” Now the Los Angeles player, who defended the Tottenham goal 447 times, has published an exclusive publication in Telegraph some excerpts from his book. Although Daniel Levy is still president spursParticularly known for his lack of tact, Hugo Lloris admits that “if a player needed a little attention, it would be better if he did not knock on Antonio Conte’s door.”
Daniel Levy and the Champions League final clock: “We all have a recorded memory. Four days before the Champions League final, Daniel Levy called us all together and announced that, with the support of a sponsor, each of us would receive a luxury pilot’s watch from the club. At first we were pleased to see the elegant boxes. We then opened them up to find that the back of each watch was engraved with the player’s name and “2019 Champions League Finalist”. Finalist. Who does something like that at a time like this? I still haven’t gotten over it, and I’m not the only one. If we had won, he would not have asked for the watch with the “Winner” engraving back. I have a lot of respect and respect for him (Daniel Levy) and everything he has done for the club as president, but there are things that he is just insensitive to. Although the watch is great, I have never worn it. I’d rather he didn’t wear anything. With such a record, Levi would not have been surprised if a few minutes later we lost with a score of 1:0: that’s how it was written. At the post-match reception at the hotel, I got the impression that some people at the club and some of the players weren’t upset enough to lose. I would like people to come up to me and say, “Don’t worry, Hugo. More. We’ll give you the chance to try again.” But when I went back to my room on the night of the final, I think I had the same feeling as Mauricio (Pochettino) and Harry (Kane): “Does the club really want to win?” “Real Madrid would never celebrate a lost final and we shouldn’t either.”
Final with Tottenham: “I played Tottenham in three finals – two League Cups (2015 and 2021) and one Champions League – in which we didn’t score a single goal. It was very disappointing to experience all these emotions and for the adventure to end this way. I don’t know if everyone in the club and the team realized how difficult it is to reach the final and how difficult it is to come back from it. I’m not sure we realized that this was perhaps the only chance of our career to win the Champions League; that the club we played for was not programmed to win; that we could avoid repeating the complaints that “Tottenham never win anything”; that our names could forever remain in the history of the club. That’s what took that penalty away from us.”
Amazon Documentary: “After that everything was difficult – both for Mauricio (Pochettino) and for us. The club have finally invested in transfers, but we are yet to get past the Champions League final and the squad has not yet been sufficiently activated, not to mention tensions that will only rise following a club decision that will affect the team’s day; a decision made without the consent of either the team or the coach: install cameras everywhere for the Amazon series about spurs. In light of the amount mentioned – around £10 million – we wondered whether those whose seasons and activities would be affected, all those who were asked for a microphone every day, would get a share. The answer was immediate: no. After the crew set up small microphones on some tables in the dining room, we went to sit at others. We had to be careful all the time. The only place where we could talk freely was the training locker room. Otherwise, they had microphones and cameras everywhere, even during some practices, which is important. “It was a limitation and it had consequences.”
Scene with Antonio Conte: “It seemed to me that Antonio Conte was a real character, driven by victory, which gave him energy, but he found it very difficult to control his disappointment when we started to draw, let alone lose, because his internal torment had passed. get out. If he was tormented, then everyone would have to share that torment, and things could get complicated very quickly. He once told me that in any given week his happiness lasted for an hour, immediately after winning, and that was it. During matches, Conte was as extreme and explosive as they come, earning both respect and fear. Such a strong personality pushed the full-backs to prefer playing on the opposite side of the bench. I will never forget our first defeat under Conte: 2:1 against Mura in Slovenia, in the Conference League. Although I didn’t play, I had the right to his screams and reproaches, like everyone else. During staff meetings, we spent at least 30 minutes a day analyzing videos, not forgetting the endless preparatory meetings in our training center. After the defeat in Maribor, he began shouting: “Mura, Mura, who is Mura?” We lost to Moura. I can still hear it. If a player needs some love, he better not knock on Conte’s door. For Conte, confidence comes from training. He has no filter, he is sincere, honest. “He is a coach who lives only for results, and from a player’s point of view, results are also important.”
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