After arriving to Liverpool, I was horrified before spending eight amazing years at the club.
Pepe Reina, who moved to Liverpool in 2005, has talked about his struggles to adjust, saying he was “aghast” at the Merseyside weather when he first arrived. Weeks after Rafa Benitez guided the Reds to a Champions League victory in Istanbul, the former Spain international joined the Reds from Villarreal. Before leaving in 2013, the former Barcelona player had played around 400 times overall. Reina, who won both the FA Cup and the League Cup while playing for Liverpool, discussed the significant shift in the team’s culture that he encountered when he signed for about £6 million over 19 years ago in an interview with LALIGAWORLD.
I left the club where I competed and felt most competitive—both myself and as a group—in 2005 to embark on what has been arguably the most significant athletic phase of my career. I lived in Liverpool for eight fantastic years,” Reina remarked. For two weeks, I couldn’t stop staring at my wife and asking, “What is this?” We came from a place where the average temperature was twenty-five degrees, but where there was two weeks of nonstop rain in July. I was horrified. It was hard for me to adjust to anything because I hadn’t anticipated it. “At 23 years old, I felt like a child, so it was challenging. Ultimately, though, even if it can be challenging, you manage to adjust.
to everything in your life when you’re successful, content, at ease, and feel appreciated. “we focused ourselves to what we were doing, to building a lovely family, because it is really cold there, and it was the best time, so everything went wonderfully,” the statement goes, “the rest is very much ancillary.” “well, when i left villarreal that summer, the national team called me up for the first time, and i hadn’t even made my liverpool debut yet,” reina continued. identica