Kanos: “Mitchell was a big support after my mother’s death”

The Spanish ace of Olympiakos, Sergi Kanosspoke to Meso in Spain and referred, among other things, to the death of his mother, revealing that the Mitchell it had stood him too much then.

In addition, he spoke about his injury in 2019, but also now with Piraeus, as well as his period in Bradford.

Read the Kanos interview in detail:

On the injury at Olympiakos:

“Yeah, when it happened to me, I thought it would be more serious than it really was. I’m already training with the team, it looks like I’ll be back in training. I was very lucky. From what I had to what I thought, it was nothing, I thought there was a torn ligament, but it was a sprain.”.

You went to Greece on loan because you didn’t have many minutes in Brentford. Have you found your good self again?

“Yes, I left Brentford because the manager wanted me to play more as a full-back and I’m not a full-back. I’m very team-oriented and I give everything for the team, in fact when we got promoted with Brentford I played as a full-back, but I know who I am and how I am. I told the manager that he could count on me as a winger, but he thought I wasn’t up to the level to be a winger. Then I started not enjoying football because I’m not a defender”.

On his presence in Brentford and rise to the big leagues:

“Yes, I consider myself very important at the club. We’ve been through a lot together and I’ve been in the team for a long time. I arrived at the age of 20, becoming the most expensive signing in the club’s history. There were players with only 3 million and now look where they are, taking 20 million players. This for me is a source of pride, because I came to a club that was struggling to avoid relegation from the second division to the third division and now we were permanently in the Premier League. I like them a lot, I’m very happy with everything they’ve given me”.

What did you rely on to get through your mother’s death?

“As soon as it happened, two days later, I came back to Greece. Mitchell was a big support, Biel, Hames were also incredible… I came straight away to play football, because I wanted my family to gather to watch me play. So three days after my mother died, the family was together at my uncle’s house celebrating my goal. Imagine, after what I felt when I lost my mother, because it’s very bad, to be able to score a goal immediately and give my family this moment of happiness… This helped me a lot to continue”.

In that goal you lifted up your shirt and underneath it said “I love you mom”

“It was very strong. My friend Valeria was at the stadium and burst into tears. I also had the thrill of the days I lived and had all the very recent emotions when I was with my family in the city. It’s a picture that stays there and my mother has definitely seen it. I’m sure”.

On the 2019 injury and why was he scared?

“I’m not afraid of having this injury (cruciate ligament tear) again, because thanks to that injury I had I am who I am today and I consider myself much better than before. But this season when I felt the “clack” in my knee, the world fell on me. I thought, ‘What I have is not enough and now this’…

When it happened to me in 2019, the doctor told me it was nothing and I continued to play even though I had an injured ligament. This time, it was the same. So the doctor told me it was nothing and of course, I took a cold shower and remembered what I experienced in 2019… The feeling was very strong and I started to cry like a child. This year I have accumulated a lot of things and football was my way to escape a little bit from everything”.

In 2019 what happened once you came back from injury?

“During the injury, the first few weeks I was in bad shape but then I set such a firm goal for myself to come back and come back better than I left, that goal kept me motivated every day. At that time I was helped by my family, my mother, my sister, etc. So when I came back and I was not better, as I had time to play, I needed help from Bernie (his psychologist). It took me a long time to become myself again, not just better than before. We did a lot, a lot of work”.

What happened and how did you deal with it?

“Meditation helped me a lot, it isolated me. I suffered a lot after Covid-19, because when I was injured the stands were full, with my family. I’m a player who really likes the stands, the atmosphere…

I don’t know, but I like the help of the audience, I play for them. When you come back and all the games are like friendlies, it’s something that kept me 12-14 games without scoring. It was difficult, because I got injured in a Brentford who were struggling in the second half of the table and I come back to a Brentford with promotion expectations but empty stadiums. Those 14 games without scoring weighed heavily on me and destabilized me, the weight was getting heavier and heavier. Twitter was getting heavy, Instagram…”

Were you dissed on twitter?

“Yes enough. It was a lot of things then: I didn’t score, the Covid-19, the knee… And it came at a time when I was going to play again and not only was I thinking about not getting injured, but also on Twitter, the criticism that could fall on me . My psychologist helped me a lot there and we had to work a lot”.

In Spain, more and more players are moving away from the networks…

“I wasn’t used to being criticized so it affected me more. Now, I wouldn’t delete Twitter or Instagram. Sometimes I disconnect for a bit because it’s toxic, but then I come back. I like Twitter because you learn a lot, there is a lot of news, there are very good people… You have to be in the middle, the fans have to criticize, the players have to be there, neither look too much nor not at all. Obviously, anyone who doesn’t want to be on Twitter shouldn’t be.”.

Do you think there is too much hate on social media these days?

“It may be, but because everything is easier. Now you can say what you want and do what you want, there is no limit and that’s the bad thing, there are no limits. I focus on those who support me”.