Leverkusen - As the German-Spanish, the door to the Italians Caldo e Freddo pushes open, there is a loud Hello. Gonzalo Castro, 20-year-old home-grown at Bayer, here is part of the regular customers. From antipasti plate and latte macchiato EXPRESS spoke with the national team, who despite his young age has already 73 Bundesliga games on the account, before the UEFA Cup match on Thursday at Spartak Moscow.
Gonzalo Castro, three years ago, you still came with the bike for training, then drove golf - now it is an Audi TT. Reflects the way a little bit against your development? One stop growing gradually in this professional business. That is also in the cabin so. I'm not a young player anymore, but had established myself.
This can be seen also on the account ... Sunny. It's great if you can afford the things of which they dreamed as a teenager. A cool car. Clothes. Now I bought myself with my friend a small bungalow, right on the BayArena.
A real Leverkusener.Ich I grew up here. I have now extended for four and a half years. But I will not stay forever. I want to do other things too, other countries. England, Spain. But now only one time only Bayer. We now have a great force together. We are very young. We are very hungry. We want success.
But it's too introspective not at Bayer? It is our players are right, that here there is this hype, as in Dortmund, Hamburg and Cologne. But the pressure that we make our own already and we can deal with it. Last year there were a few games where the coach was in danger - we won.
You accuses you, you often played to ripped off. Reiner Calmund called it, controlled cheese '. I do not agree. I have a good eye, recognize situations, often in advance. It is difficult to make as to what rights defenders. And play hell-bent on attacking - that's hara-kiri.
Private one can see you more often with Arturo Vidal. They act totally different ... Well, Arturo is more the extrovert type. In Chile, he is a superstar. I like it a bit quieter. But if we go out together, we have fun. And that's the most important thing ...
