Mauro Icardi spoke about many different subjects in an interview with Sportsweek. Here are the questions ant the answers from the attacker who was born in Rosario in 1993.
Icardi, do you like football? “Well, it’s a sport that makes me have fun. Therefore I play and that’s enough, I don’t ever watch the games and I don’t know anything about what’s happening around it.”
What did Milan do last Sunday? “I don’t follow Serie A.”
Which teams reached the semi-final of Coppa Italia? “Even less.”
Who is Chelsea’s goalkeeper? “Well, that yes, I’m not stupid.”
Does football make you sick when it became a job? “No, I’ve always been that way, from a very young age. At Barcelona’s youth I lived behind the Camp Nou, just outside the door practically, and the days of the matches I was sitting in the room watching movies. And I don’t believe that I’m the only one: there there are many players who don’t care about football.”
Your wife, Wanda Nara, says that you’re a forty year old trapped in the body of a twenty year old. “She’s right, it has always been like that. For ten years I have known that I’m more mature than my age, and even the mothers of my friends always said so. It’s all thanks to my mom, who has left me free to find my own ways, making me realize that life is not Disneyland.”
How old is your mother? “She is very young: forty-one. And that is really nice.”
She has just given you two twin brothers, among other things, the result of a relationship with a Spanish man. “They are not twins, they are heterozygous, in Spanish it’s called mellizos.”
What impression have you gotten from them? “Well, I acted like they do when I was a child. I told her that this is right, and that now they have to make their own lives. At Christmas they all came to Milan and we were a together a little.”
Did you suffer when your parents divorced? “I didn’t care about that. I was already grown up and I played for Sampdoria. I called him, I called her, and that’s it.”
On YouTube there’s a documentary circulating from when you lived in Gran Canaria with your family, fleeing the economic crisis in Argentina. There is a Professor in raptures who says, “Mauro es un niño studious, serious, trabajador” “It’s true. I had nine or ten in all subjects. My mom forced me to study and I, shut up, I did it” .
And how is it that when they do the rankings of bad boys in football you always end up in the middle? “Don’t ask me, just as I didn’t ask myself. It’s something that does not make me neither hot nor cold.”
Why do footballers sometimes lose their temper? “Because of the adrenaline that football gives you. If you’re angry and you’re energized… You can lose your mind. We are role models, I realize that, but we are people and sometimes we make mistakes.”
You, in your forties inside, are you kind of boring at home? “On the contrary, we are always engaged in something. Maybe at midnight I get the idea to mount a cabinet and I do it. With Wanda we’re veterans of moving house and I’ve thought of everything: making the boxes, packing, assembling the furniture…”
This is not the behavior of a millionaire: didn’t you pay someone before?
“Oh, I understand, but I like that. Wanda has nicknamed me Manny Manitas, as the handyman of a Spanish cartoon.”
In Argentina there have been rumors that you, in the delivery room, asked to suture the wound. “I told the midwife really, if she could give me a try. Also because I’m not a guy who is easily impressed, but then Wanda didn’t let go off me for a second and wanted me to be close. It wasn’t possible.”
Do you want more children? “No, it’s enough! Four in the house are sufficient.”
Do you miss the carelessness a little? “No, no one forced me to live like that. And I don’t ever envy a teammate without obligations.”
Why have you had the names of the sons of Maxi Lopez tattoed on your arm? “Because they are three children who spend all day with me and I’m in charge of their childhood.”
What do they call you? “Mauro, or dad.”
Have you started to talk, if only for the sake of the children? “No, neither I nor Wanda. Lopez calls everyday, we read his name on the display, we pass the phone to children and that’s enough. End of relations.”
For Constantine’s birthday you hade a cake shaped like a Lamborghini made. Don’t you worry that you transmit values that are too materialistic? “That has nothing to do with it, he goes crazy for the cars. The white Lamborghini, then, is like mine.”
Do you consider yourself a bit trashy? “A little yes, come on. Even my agent tells me that all the time.”
How many cars do you have? “A Lamborghini, a Rolls Royce and a golden Hammer, I got my first car second hand when I wasn’t a professional. I just got the number of a guy who is expert in customizations: now I will redo all interiors.”
Watches? “Two brands, especially: Hublot and Audemars Piguet. But not many, eh… a couple.”
The earring in the shape of ‘M9’? “A jeweler made it for me. I also ordered this rosary, see? With my symbol in the middle.”
The next tattoo? “The name of my daughter Francesca, on the chest.”
Who is your tattoo artist in Milan? “Nobody, the only one who does work on me is an Argentinean who lives in Spain. I get him here for the purpose.”
“Icardi should not play, I’m pissed off,” Who said that? “Maradona, because of the story with Maxi Lopez, after a game organized by the Pope.”
Did it hurt you? “Not at all. I knew what he thought and I went there anyway. When I heard his words it made me laugh.”
Do you think you’ve had to pay too severe a punishment for some of your choices? “I don’t know, I just say that people need to mind their own damn business before speaking. Think about your life and then others. No one is 100% clean.”
Of what do you have more hunger in life? “The hunger isn’t for me. I have an ambition: to do well in football, have a calm life and be happy.”
Who are the unhappy? “Those who always listen to others.”
You on the other hand? “I have never listened to anyone.”
In fact… “I’m happy, indeed, very happy.”
Source: fcinternews.it
