Luis García: ‘I didn’t expect football to give me that again. But there I was, crying’

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All that suffering and satisfaction, the pressure, the emotion: that was no more.“I was always very competitive and once I had left football, I thought I wasn’t going to have those feelings I had before,” he says. In fact, I was trying to avoid it; I didn’t want it.

I asked for one, kept insisting, but Rafa didn’t let me.“When I retired, I was relaxed, welcomed the pause, but I had also spent years getting ready for other opportunities that might arise in football. “Tell me I can play now and I’m out there,” he says.

Or more to the point, I didn’t feel the call, the pull.”“I had always been curious about things. I don’t know if I was different, but I played the piano, the guitar.