After Boca and for a few months Saudi Arabia con Al-Nassrwhere he shared a dressing room with Cristiano Ronaldo, Agustín Rossi seems to have found its new place in the world in Rio de Janeiro. The Argentine goalkeeper became the undisputed holder of Flamengo since the arrival of Tite -former coach of the Brazilian national team- and has just broken the unbeaten record that was held by Luiz Cantarele since 1979. To Rossi It’s been 964 minutes since they scored a goal. In an interview with ESPN He talked about his present, Boca, Saudi Arabia and Cristiano Ronaldo.
“Boca is missed and the fact of being in Argentina, with the family, being far away. You miss everything that was Boca, like my time in Lanús, Chacarita, Defensa y Justicia,” Rossi said. And he highlighted that in Rio de Janeiro “You can go to the beach, people are passionate, they ask you for a photo, a video, but they don’t jump on it. It’s very quiet here,” she added.
The former xeneize goalkeeper He told in detail how he left the club.defined in January 2023 after the International Super Cup disputed with Racing in United Arab Emirates. “I don’t know if it was the need for an economic leap. He had just taken the trip to the Emirates to play in the final against Racing. The day before I found out that I was not going to play and one always travels with the desire to be able to compete in a cup. At the conference (Hugo) Ibarra said that he decided that because perhaps I was not going to be with my head in Boca or whatever. That maybe bothered a little because it wasn’t like that.”Rossi began.
And he added, somewhat angry about what happened: “If I had had another problem in my head it would have been from the first momentwhen the exchanged words came out between my representative, the president of Boca (at that time it was Jorge Amor Ameal) and the Football Council. I always kept my head in Boca and in my work. It wasn’t because of an economic jump, it was because of the opportunity to play. It was a sports issue because I was not going to be able to play in Boca for the last six months.“, stressed the goalkeeper.
About his relationship with the fan Boca after his departure (after La Bombonera loudly asked for his renewal), Rossi He assured: “I was fine with the Boca fan. One is always grateful for what Boca gave me, I always gave everything for the club,” he recalled. And he theorized about a hypothetical return to Argentine football: “I don’t close the doors to anything, it’s work. When the time comes, if a proposal is made from an Argentine club, we are willing to listen, but then the decision is made together, considering what is best for me and for everyone.”. When asked about a possible call from River to compete with Franco ArmaniRossi responded: “It’s very difficult. Today perhaps I will tell you no, because what was the affection with Boca. In the future, you never know. Maybe because of a negotiation that didn’t happen, you end up leaving a club where you were doing well.”
Rossi also spoke about his time at Saudi Arabiawhere it coincided with Cristiano Ronaldo in Al-Nassrdirected by French Rudi Garciaand with the also Argentine Gonzalo “Pity” Martínez, today in River. “Cristiano is an animal, not just training and games. He doesn’t like to lose anything. Even though we shared a short time, the truth is that it was something incredible and remains to be remembered,” Rossi recalled. And he added: “There was also Pity (Martínez) before he broke his knee again, we were talking about Argentine football. Cristiano has a lot of knowledge about what Argentina was because Georgina’s family (Rodríguez, his wife) is Argentine. At the rallies we talked about what she had lived through, in Manchester. We had a table of foreigners and Arabs at another“, completed the goalkeeper, who ended up on the substitute bench and could not establish himself in the Arab team. In any case, his transfer as a free player to Flamengo was already closed.
A few months ago, Rossi told what his day-to-day work was like with Tite, his coach at Flamengo and former coach of the Brazilian national team: “It’s good to work with Tite. He is a very experienced coach, very respected in Brazil. He is an imposing person. He came with the idea of adapting more to the players. And he couldn’t change much, since it was a transition period,” Rossi said in an interview with Cazé TV during the preseason. On another note, with GlobeSportRossi went further: “Yeah, I think we’re doing a great job., there are many parties. The preseason was tough, but now we are starting to play more and the team and the defense will always try to do their best to avoid conceding goals and generate confidence in the entire team. And let the attacker only worry about scoring goals because then we will be closer to victories,” completed the goalkeeper trained in Chacarita and called to leave a mark on the Flamengo goal. He already entered the story of him.