Carlos Tevez admits he's tired of football
We don't often think of footballers as individuals who deal with the daily grind of punching in and out everyday at a mundane job, but Manchester City's Carlos Tevez admits that's how playing in Europe feels for him and that he doesn't plan to put up with
it much longer.
It seems the Argentine superstar is homesick and also believes that football on the European stage is too focused on big business and not enough on the beauty of the game.
"I don't want to play any more. I'm tired of football, but also tired of people who work in football," Tevez said in an interview with
TyC Sports. "I don't want to play any more, and I'm talking seriously. Football is only about money, and I don't like it. There are so many agents with really young
footballers. It's awful, as these young players are not interesting in winning titles, they only want money. The young players think that they have won something in football because they have two mobile phones and a house. Today, there are many bad people
in the football business, and you have to fight with them all the time. I'm tired of that too."
Tevez is currently the leading scorer in the English Premier League with nine goals although he admits his heart is not really in it, and he longs to be back home in Argentina, although says not to play football there.
"I'm going to play football for three or four years in Europe, then I will quit," Tevez added. I would play for Boca again only if my father asks me to do it, but I don't want to play in Argentina again. If you ask me, I would love to have my old life back
in my neighbourhood of Fuerte Apache as I don't like my way of life today. I don't want to suffer any more, I just want to be calm, I want some peace. But at the moment, football feels like a job for me."
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