“I chose Venezia for a reason!”
Mattia Caldara, defender of Milan currently on loan to Venice, he indulged in a long interview with “Chronicles of the locker room”, in which he talked about his last period: from his first injury in the Rossoneri to the rebirth of the last few months. These are his words:
On the first injury:
“I didn’t expect my first Achilles tendon injury. When I got hurt I felt a sharp pain and I thought someone had kicked me from behind. Then I turned around and there was no one behind, there was only Cutrone. So there I realized that it was no small thing “.
On the second injury:
“After 4-5 months I was starting to feel good. I played in a Coppa Italia match against Lazio and while playing I felt better and better, a situation that I haven’t felt for a while. I said to myself: “Maybe we are”. I do the week of training before the match with Turin and there in a conflict with a friend of mine I broke the cross and collateral. Mentally it was devastating, because inside me I felt that by now I was there to feel good, now I no longer felt anything in the Achilles tendon. I really felt that it was close, I was fine. It was even harder than the first “.
On the transition to Atalanta:
“I took the opportunity to return to Bergamo: Milan gave me the opportunity to go and play, even according to them it was the best thing to get the head. The match against Valencia at San Siro is the best memory I have after the injury. I played 70 minutes in a Champions League quarter-final and we won. Then there was the lockdown, and when we got back I had another problem with my patellar tendon, and even there it was hard “.
About the transfer to Venice:
“When I had the opportunity to come here to Venice, I even came to the coach and the director to talk to me here in Milan, it was the spark I was missing. I probably didn’t have as much confidence in myself as they have shown me. I’ve been a different person since I’ve been here. I’m much more serene, I go home happy because I can train well and play all the games “.