More than 17 years after this tragic Champions League final lost by Chelsea to Manchester United in Moscow, the “blue” captain of the time, John Terry explained what it meant for him to miss the decisive penalty which left them without a title.
“Looking back, I would have loved to have spoken to a specialist at that time, because I remember after the match we all went back to the hotel and I was on the 25th floor and I was thinking, “why?” ‘because?” he revealed in the podcast Reece Mennie.
The Chelsea legend even contemplated suicide: “I’m not saying I was going to jump, but At that moment, a lot of things go through your mind and throwing me away was one of them.“.
However, he had the support of the rest of the team to get out of that hole: “My teammates came up and took me down. It’s those moments where you think: “What would have happened if…?” » You never know, right? »
Four years later, in 2012, Terry got rid of this thorn and won the Champions League. Despite everything, he continues to remember this bad moment. “Even today This continues to run through my head. It has softened over the years, of course, but when we play, we compartmentalize it a little and we leave it in the background,” he explained.
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