Sergio Peña: the memory of the steering wheel when he cried with Carrillo after being left out of Russia 2018

In an interview with ‘Los Convocados’ in May 2020, Sergio Pena He told what he lived, when he found out that he was not going to be able to fulfill his dream of playing a World Cup with the peruvian team. The footballer who currently plays in Malmö FF, confirmed that the news affected him a lot, so much so that he could not bear the tears and cried in his room with André Carrillo.

“It affected me a lot, but not by much, because I had to support the national team. I cried in my room alone, well with Carrillo who went to my room “, said Sergio Peña.

“After that night, the next day I go, I had breakfast, I talked with some of my colleagues and I wished them the best, but in reality I did not want to see any of them because I did not want to transmit that pain that I felt because I wanted them to be 100 % “added.

Later, Sergio Peña confirmed that he did not say goodbye to some of his colleagues and that seemed wrong to a few. “Some of them thought it was wrong that I did not say goodbye, because I did not say goodbye, but I did not do it because, well, later I talked about it with them, with my colleagues, and I explained to them why I did not do it and everything was fine, but all of them wrote to me and I did not respond to them, I only responded to Paolo, Jefferson and Carrillo who went to my room ”.

“I think that my teammates were affected by my leaving because I have a very good relationship with everyone and because I had been in the national team for a long time and they didn’t want anyone to leave, so whoever was leaving was going to affect the group. So, I didn’t want them to feel that. “, expressed the national flyer.

Although Peña could not be in Russia 2018, at present, the footballer has been a key piece in Ricardo Gareca’s starting eleven, in addition, Peru still has a chance to qualify for the Qatar World Cup in 2022, which could be the revenge of the skilled midfielder national.

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