Álvaro Morata, forward of AC Milan of Italy and the Spanish National Team, spoke with radio COPE and revealed that he suffered depression before the Euro Cup that the Hispanic squad won in Germany. “Three months before going to the European Championship I was thinking about whether I could play a game again. The furthest thing that crossed my mind was putting on the shirt and being captain. I didn’t know what was happening to me, it’s very delicate and complicated. “, he expressed.
The attacker’s confession came just this October 10, World Mental Health Day. “I was ashamed to be with them and go out into the street. It got to the point where they told me so many things in front of them that I preferred not to take them. I was an easy joke“said the athlete, who suffered from anxiety and fear, symptoms that kept him away from his children.
“When I had to get dressed to go on the field, I would go home and lock myself in the room to fight with my head. It is a disease like any other. Just as we go to the gym, we also need psychological help,” he said.
“The best treatment was being with my colleagues, they made me happy. I didn’t want to read anything or think. I would get to the room and I would be anesthetized. I would dream incredible things and when I woke up I would be overcome with anxiety when I saw that they weren’t reality,” he concluded. Morata.
