Q: At 24 years, you have 247 games between Sevilla and Madrid and 69 with the Spanish team, and more than 30 goals in the elite … Is your life a gift?
Sergio : I always felt that the luck factor goes hand in hand with work and sacrifice. To become someone in football I gave up on my childhood and that’s hard. You see how your friends go to movies, they go out at night and you always have to say: “I can’t”. At 16 years I was already training with Sevilla and had a career. So I had to give up many things people your age can do to get where I am. When Caparrós called me I was still in school and as practice for the first team coincided with the classes, I couldn’t go to school!
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