{"id":20412,"date":"2025-07-31T05:52:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/saul-blames-joao-felixs-lack-of-work-for-his-failure\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:52:42","slug":"saul-blames-joao-felixs-lack-of-work-for-his-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/saul-blames-joao-felixs-lack-of-work-for-his-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Sa\u00fal blames Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix’s lack of work for his failure."},"content":{"rendered":"Sa\u00fal \u00d1\u00edguez, recently incorporated into Flamengo of Brazil, has expressed his opinion on the trajectory of his former teammate at Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid, Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix. \u00d1\u00edguez attributes F\u00e9lix’s lack of success in several elite clubs to the player’s lack of work ethic.\n\n

No matter how good you are, if you don’t work, it’s not enough.<\/p>Sa\u00fal \u00d1\u00edguez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nJo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix, 25 years old, recently signed with Al Nassr of the Saudi Professional League. Both players coincided at Atletico Madrid when F\u00e9lix arrived in 2019 in a record transfer of 127 million euros.\n\nF\u00e9lix’s time at Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid did not meet expectations, and he subsequently went through Chelsea, Barcelona and AC Milan, without managing to establish himself in any of these teams.\n\nIn an interview with COPE radio, Sa\u00fal commented: “Football is a team sport. He has all the qualities to be an incredible player, but no matter how good you are, if you don’t work, it’s not enough.”\n\n

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Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix se ha unido al Al Nassr tras pasar por varios equipos europeos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nAfter his time at Atl\u00e9tico, Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix played for Chelsea and Barcelona on loan, before signing for the English club in 2024. Six months later, he joined Milan on loan, and finally signed with Al Nassr this week with a two-year contract.\n\nSa\u00fal remembered the words of the former Rayo Vallecano coach, Paco J\u00e9mez: “Talent without effort is nothing.” He added that many tried to help Jo\u00e3o, but “if you don’t want to…”\n\nThe Al Nassr coach, Jorge Jesus, who was the coach of Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix’s youth club, Benfica, has acknowledged that the forward is not yet in top form.\n\n

Today we saw his first training match, he’s completely out of shape. He has to prepare better, especially since he hasn’t been training, it’s only his third training session with us. But I believe in his football and I believe he will be what he was at Benfica again.<\/p>Jorge Jesus<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nSa\u00fal, who was also a key figure at Atl\u00e9tico before losing the trust of coach Diego Simeone, went through Chelsea and Sevilla on loan before joining Flamengo.\n\nWhen asked about Simeone, Sa\u00fal commented: “Our relationship had ups and downs, but we were always direct, and that’s what I liked the most. I value the fact that he wasn’t dishonest with me, like some people in the club.”\n\nAtl\u00e9tico de Madrid has had a busy summer in the transfer market, with the incorporations of \u00c1lex Baena, Thiago Almada, Johnny Cardoso, D\u00e1vid Hancko, Matteo Ruggeri and Marc Pubill. Sa\u00fal considers that this investment obliges his former club to compete for the LaLiga title this season.\n\n“Atl\u00e9tico has fewer and fewer excuses,” Sa\u00fal told COPE. “Last year they spent 200 million euros, this year they’ve spent another 200 million. They no longer have the excuse that ‘Sa\u00fal earns a lot’… They are spending as much as anyone, and they have to compete for everything.”","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sa\u00fal \u00d1\u00edguez, recently incorporated into Flamengo of Brazil, has expressed his opinion on the trajectory of his former teammate at Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid, Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix. \u00d1\u00edguez attributes F\u00e9lix’s lack of success in several elite clubs to the player’s lack of work ethic. No matter how good you are, if you don’t work, it’s not enough. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2066,2704,6526,6624],"class_list":{"0":"post-20412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-al-nassr","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-joao-felix","10":"tag-work"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}