Across several leagues and a career spanning over a decade, December 6th marked the day when Filipe Luis hung his boots. Filipe played his very last match with Brazil’s Flamengo. In a recent free-wheeling conversation, Filipe recalled his brief stint with the Athletico Madrid. While talking about his career, he also revealed the “greatest regret of his career.”
Things get heated while you are playing for your club. You go in the zone of ‘us or them.’ And in those times, you need to keep your calm, or else you end up with regret. Something Filipe learned the hard way. For Luis, it is his tussle with Di Maria during an Athletico Madrid and Real Madrid matchup.
That One Regret
While reflecting upon his career, Luis recalled this incident and wanted to take an opportunity to apologize to Di Maria. He also blamed Sergio Aguero for instigating him to get under Di Maria’s skin.
During a podcast, Filipe recalled, “If there is something I regret having done, perhaps it is the only thing I really regret, and I would like to go back in time and not do it, it was against Di María,” Luis further added, “I arrived at Atlético, we were going to play against Real Madrid and Agüero told me: ‘Filipe, if you approach him, he will lose, he will leave the game. Go see him and talk about his wife. And I arrived and said: ‘your wife..’, I pronounced his wife’s name… He looked at me, he was downcast, I won the whole game,”
This was a huge low blow. Filipe wanted to apologize to his colleague. Therefore, Filipe ended the conversation by saying, “Di Maria, I’m sorry, I’m sorry I did that, I’m sorry.” Even after all of this, Di Maria was not a man who would easily break. Instead, he went out there and owned the field every single day.
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