At the beginning of the year, Augustine Rossi had to leave Mouth after failing to reach an agreement with the leadership to extend his contract that expired in June of this year and therefore he went to football arabian knew where they shared a team with Cristiano Ronaldo in it al nassr a loan because the flamenco He made a pre-contract with the 27-year-old player.
In a new culture and with new teammates, the goalkeeper made his debut for his new club two days after arriving and made saves in 7 games, conceding 6 goals. However and beyond his statistics, rossi He had never spoken about his departure from xeneize And yesterday, he specified how his departure from the club precipitated: “It was a complicated situation“.
“The mouthfeel was weird. I told my representative that I wanted to continue, but we did not reach an agreement. I left to avoid problems with Boca, I didn’t want to talk, I prefer silence“, said.
He also explained that this situation presented setbacks with his family: “I inadvertently brought the worry home, my wife was pregnant and because of the stress my son was born earlier, in short… Almost a year passed until the first meeting, from mid- 2021 until the middle of last year.”
“I never went wrong from a place, neither from Defense and Justice, nor from Lanús. It’s a shame that I couldn’t say goodbye to Boca, I would have loved it“, he added.
The affection of the people of Boca
“People behaved incredible with me, always. I did not expect so much, I did not imagine it, that all of La Bombonera would shout and cheer me on, that they would ask me not to leave. I keep running into Boca fans, who tell me they miss me“, said rossi about the Boquenses fans.
His experience in Saudi Arabia with Cristiano Ronaldo
“The experience in Arabia was nice, along with Cristiano Ronaldo. Two days later I had to play, without knowing the language, it happened like that. Cristiano is super professional, he arrives early for each training session, he is already competitive on a day-to-day basis and in the concentrations we had a very good relationship,” he said.
In addition, make sure that he felt like one of the team: “I ate with him and a couple of other teammates, we had after-dinner and he told about his experiences, that he always fought for it and wants to continue winning titles.”
Flamengo, your next destination
“I join Flamengo on July 1st. We will see with the issue of playing from behind, I did it with Holan here in Defense and now I will see with Sampaoli in Brazil. I chose Flamengo because of its proximity, because of my son who was born in October. It was a decision made as a family, it’s a league similar to ours, even Brazil is a little better because it brings players from Europe at a good level”, he concluded.
