Jean Deza exclusively for Infobae: “I had quit football because I felt a pressure that I could no longer endure. I was sad and shattered”

On November 18 of last year, news broke that surprised all Peruvian football lovers: Jean Deza, one of the most skilled footballers in the country in recent years years, he decided to hang the ankle boots to his short 28 years old. The player gave no reason or reason for this outcome. And although we will now see him again in League 1 with ADT after reconsidering what was done, we talked exclusively with him to find out what went through his head at that time. Check out the second part of the interview here.

“Well, first of all I want to thank my family, girlfriend and clubs interested in me for the support of my family, girlfriend and clubs. I just wanted to leave this message here to tell you that I decided not to play football anymore. Thanks for everything little ball, you were my everything. I'm going to miss you. Thank you for everything,” he wrote that day through his Instagram account causing a stir in the national press.

His sudden retirement was not related to any injury, but to his constant appearances on show programs that flooded him with problems week by week. He accepts his mistakes, but considers that many times they exceeded the qualifications and constant harassment. This he told us.

DEZA LEFT FOOTBALL BECAUSE OF MEDIA PRESSURE

“Look, you're the first person I'm giving an interview after a long time and I'm going to be as honest as people know. The truth is that I felt very sad, I swear I didn't want anything, inside I felt shattered by what the press was talking about, the people... that Deza always and they don't realize that we all have the right to live their lives the way you want it. I can't be aware of the other person, what he does or doesn't do,” Jean Deza started.

“But unfortunately with all the bad things I did, all of a sudden, in football, in Lima... you know that there is a show program that damaged my image a lot because everyone is going to have a glass of beer or toast with the family, but they can't see me doing because they will say: 'he got drunk, ''he drank everything', 'will he get to train?' , 'will arrive broken'. The expectations they have of me, I can be honest with you, they will always be negative, everyone speaks badly about me, out of 20 comments there is a good one and everyone says: but you earned it because you didn't know how to do things well,” he added.

“If we start thinking for each person about every bad thing they do, then what are we talking about. Everyone is going to judge each other, I felt a pressure that I really couldn't take it anymore, so when I talked to my partner I told him 'I can't stand it anymore, if I do something right or I do wrong, it doesn't seem to anyone. ' I have such a damaged image, that the only thing I've ever thought about is 'well, I don't live on people, people don't feed me'”, he said.

“It's making a story about Jean Deza for myself, my children when they remember me, when I don't play football anymore they feel proud of me, my family, my partner. And all those negative comments, all those people who want to see me destroyed, who want to see me badly, I'm not going to give them the pleasure, I'm going to fight until God tells me that it's up to here,” said Jean Deza.

“I'm going to keep doing what they like, even if they criticize me... they like to see me play, as they say, always when Jean Deza has it, something different will happen on the court. So I think the best thing to defend myself is going to be on the court and doing things well off the court, which is the most important thing,” warned the striker.

“I moved away from the courts because you, in order to judge a person, I think you have to know them well, interact with that person, if that's how they say it or how they paint it on TV. I really have been rated in the worst way on television, I can't say names, but in the worst way and unfortunately we are used to morbidity, gossip and all those things that personally don't fill me up and don't give me anything positive,” he insisted.

THE ORDER TO RETURN TO THE COURTS

“A lot of people wrote to me on Instagram. Teammates I played with in the national team told me 'I was crazy', 'what is wrong with me'. But the truth is that I had no head to answer to anyone, I wanted to be calm, I wanted to be away from everything, so the decision was decisive, to say: do you know what? Paro, that's it, I can't take it anymore. But my family, my wife told me 'Jean, you still can, you're young' or even the same people who saw me on the street, they told me 'Oe Deza why do you retire, compare that you play a lot, what you have to give', whereas when I was playing, I think those same people killed me”, he said.

WHAT DOES JEAN DEZA REGRET?

“I regret not having taken advantage of all the opportunities that football has given me, I am already 28 years old and sometimes you don't realize it yourself and you close the doors for doing things wrong. In the meaning that talent does not only reach, it is to be professional, to have a good diet, to give your best in every training session, in every match, to be an example on and off the court. So, as I tell you, I'm not going to fool myself, I know what I've failed,” he launched.

“Now that I am 28 years old and I say: 'Deza until when? ' Look at all the opportunities you've had and you haven't been able to take advantage of them, but now thank God, I have a woman who accompanies me, who trusts me, who has a lot of her support. She tells me that I can, that I have to be psyched about doing things right, for myself, for my children, for her, that I wish God will be able to spend my whole life with me, also because she is an excellent woman and not to waste those opportunities that football gives me. There are many people who would like to be in my place, playing football is the most beautiful thing and on top of that they pay you, so now I think, the truth is, to do the best with ADT and have a good career, a career where positive things talk and finish my professional career well”, he closed.

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