Former world champion with Spain pays Matías Fernández: “He had a cannon in his leg”

Joan Capdevila, Former world champion with Spain in South Africa 2010, had only words of praise for Matías Fernández, with whom he shared a dressing room in the Villarreal directed by Manuel Pellegrini.

In conversation with the La Arenga del Abuelo portal, he mentioned that “Matías Fernández surprised me a lot, he had excellent soccer qualities. Perhaps in Villarreal he did not enjoy the minutes he needed, but he had a cannon in his leg“

But that was not all, because he added that “He was having trouble expressing himself, perhaps that hurt him a little. Sometimes it is necessary to reveal yourself a little ”, hinting at the shy or non-confrontational personality that Fernández has.

Further, The Spanish winger had words for the strategist Pellegrini, who ran it in 2007 in the yellow submarine. “It changed the way I play. He gave me a lot of advice, we changed the chip a lot with him, ”he said.