Iniesta: Money and fame are useless; I missed certain things after leaving Barca

The former captain of Barça has given an interview to the newspaper El Mundo before his documentary will be published on April 23.

Andrés Iniesta, former captain of FC Barelona and currently plays at Vissel Kobe, reviews his career in a interview with the newspaper El Mundo.

Iniesta explains that confinement in Japan: "It is not as hard as in Spain, we can go for a walk, with many precautions, and the restaurants, although not all the time, are open. It is being harder in Tokyo."

On his documentary, Iniesta said, "the idea has come for a long time. It was a bit after the book [The Play of My Life, published in 2016], it's like the next step. 

"The idea has always been in my head, and here came the chance. After coming here to Japan, leaving Barcelona, after all the tour, I wanted to do something like this.

You go out to work and play, but every day you come back from training, from playing, you have won or lost, you have done a good or bad training, whether you are good or bad, you come home. And at home you meet the most important people you have, " he adds. 

"Happiness is difficult to find and she makes me happy," he points out about Anna, his wife.

Iniesta talks about the value of fame and money. "Money and fame are useless, but... You know what's going on? hat it is difficult for someone who does not have all those things that I have, to understand that I say that money and fame are useless. 

"But it is true that, even if you have everything in the world, if you are empty inside ...  People, no matter the money, we have the same feelings, the same fears, the same joys ... And there we are all cut off by the same pattern. Everything else is accessories."

Regarding his departure from Barça, Iniesta does not hide that "I missed certain things". 

"In the context of my departure from Barça in the documentary, I think the phrase is very explicit, very real. It's often said that you value things when you've lost them. 

"Well, the important thing is to give value to things when you have them, and that's reciprocal. But, well, those things happen, and they do it for various reasons. Not because one is better than another, because one party is to blame or not.”