AC Milan's midfielder, Tommaso Pobega, has spoken to DAZN in a new episode of '1vs1'. Here are his words:
"I'm fine. I'm glad I finally managed to stay here. I am satisfied with what we are doing as a team, we can do even more, for sure. After maybe a few years in which I went on loans, coming back here has a different flavour, the sense of saying: go, go, get experience, give your best and then come back here that there is a fantastic environment to work. The loan to Torino? Coming out of the Primavera certainly I was not ready to take a higher jump... It took me every step to grow, mature and improve. I knew what season I had done at La Spezia, I knew the level that was there, I wanted to have another test for myself and say: 'Ok, I want to go and do another year, get back into the game and try to do even better'."
He added:
"The reaction after the defeats was something that even the coach talked about a lot in training, in the locker room: strong teams are always seen after a small fall, because you can fall but the important thing after is to get back on track immediately and continue on what you were doing. In these 3 games, we have proved it and we must continue like this. I'm trying to get used to it, but I think it's difficult for the fans to love. At Milan the numbers and presence at the stadium is a different thing", said Pobega, "When you see the choreography they do before the match, you understand that it is really beautiful and important."
On ex coach Gennaro Gattuso:
"I remember that when we were in the Primavera, we were four guys, the ones a little 'older', because there are more and more years together in the Primavera group. In the boarding school we always had a separate table from the others, we were always there together. When he heard about it from the tutors or from someone else, he called us aside and said 'I don't want to see these things anymore because we are a team'. Since then, he always took care of such things and bonding aspects."
On the number 32, Pobega said:
"I've always had even numbers, then when I had to choose I watched the Los Angeles Lakers series and there was Magic Johnson, a player I always liked in the NBA, I liked him as a number and I chose that."
Pobega concluded:
"The most difficult exam? Private law. The midfielder who has put me most in difficulty? Last year, I can say Rabiot. My idols? Outside football, it's LeBron James. In the world of football, I loved Schweinsteiger as a child. Four Harry Potter characters? Dumbledore, Snape, Harry Potter and Hagrid. Milan for me in a word? Passion."
