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The Argentine's words to his girlfriend and future wife Oriana's podcast: "I didn't want to leave the house anymore". Then he cried for his father
" After winning the World Cup, I had another important final, played with the Roma shirt. We lost and that defeat killed me, I was destroyed. I just wanted to go home and not leave the house ." So said Paulo Dybala during the podcast "A donde vamos", directed by his future wife Oriana Sabatini , about the emotions he experienced after losing with Roma in the 2022-23 Europa League final , in Budapest, against Sevilla , on penalties. " It hurt me a lot to lose that final because I knew that at that moment for Roma it would have been something historic, just like the World Cup was for Argentina. For the Giallorossi people it would have been something unique and historic. Everyone asked me: have you ever felt this defeat so much? I don't know. The time spent with the team, experiencing the city, getting to know the people, the dressing room. The fact that I lost that final killed me. There is no comparison between the World Cup final and the Europa League final but losing against Sevilla destroyed me ," added Dybala .
Dybala's words
The former Juventus striker , who never mentioned Cardiff or the Bianconeri, then said: " I was born with football, in my house we have always lived football, we breathed it, we watched it. I have two older brothers who grew up like me, and so did my father and my grandfather. The whole family. When I was a kid I was a bit tired of football, I was 7-8 years old, I wanted to start playing basketball. I signed up for a basketball school. I started training, I didn't know anything, in my house there was no talk of it. I think it was out of desperation to do something else. In my first official match, the ball came to me low and I controlled it with my foot, I didn't bend down to grab it with my hand. Then the coach told me either you play with your hands or you play football again. I said I had to go back to football. I understood that it was my thing, all my friends played it" .
Dybala and too many injuries
Then, the Argentinean focused on the many injuries that have affected his career: " I have often had to slow down to follow my body, I would have preferred that certain things did not happen to me. I do everything possible to ensure that certain things do not happen, and sometimes I succeed. It is normal to be angry about a situation or to have some frustration, but I have no choice but to continue working, or to resume working from where you left off or to start over in the same way. There is not much you can do. If I were lazy and did nothing to feel better, it would be one thing, but it is good to have a sports routine, that is why sometimes it makes you a little angry. Sometimes I think that everything I do is everything my body gives me, if I didn't do it it would be worse . "
Dybala and the penalty in the World Cup final
On the World Cup final between France and Argentina : " When France scored the 3-3 I almost cried, there was very little left of the game. On those occasions, if you go to penalties, you lose. We always went ahead, but France was able to come back. Do players think about the possibility of losing when they go to the spot to take penalties? It depends on how the game went. On that occasion, it seemed like everything was going wrong, everything had happened so that we would lose on penalties. Otherwise, the game would have ended 3-2 for us and France would not have equalised. I came on the pitch after the 3-3, when the game was already over, and I almost cried. But there was no time to cry or think. Emotions are put aside, I just concentrated on the penalty ."
Dybala and the future
Finally, on the future : " I still have many other goals, even on a footballing level. I have other trophies that I want to win, I want to score a certain number of goals, I want to make hundreds of appearances, I want to play a lot more. This is because I have a great passion, I enjoy myself. I really like going to train with my teammates, having lunch together, travelling with my team. It's normal that sometimes I say 'no, I don't feel like going to train, I want to continue sleeping' but I don't want to. I really like playing and I'm enjoying it. I had a lot of fun before and during the World Cup. What I want is to have fun again, and maybe at some point my body will tell me that I'm not having fun anymore. Now I have fun and I get up every morning happy to be able to go to training. People think it's easy to have fun when you have so much to do. Having a child? I'm curious because I would really like to be a father. I've always wanted to be one and I feel that it's a good time, " said Dybala .