Juan Imhoff’s deep reflection, months after his retirement: “The most difficult thing is to stop being”

In December last year, Juan Imhoff He formally announced that he would leave professional rugby. Today, months of that moment, he tries to find his place and his new life away from the courts. All rugby, in Disney+.

“There are very difficult times and there are very good times”the Rosario Ex began Racing 92 In dialogue with AM850 in Paris, where he continues to live and where he is enjoying the emblematic tennis tournament, Roland Garros.

About his retirement, he said: “Every end has a duel, let’s say. Obviously it is not the death of anyone, but it is the death of one to develop in a medium, to express myself in a rectangle of being able to have a physical demand, not with a consequence, but with a goal. Teamwork, the planning of the week. There are many things that when they stop suddenly, one does not realize the need that generated it repetitively for many years. If, but there are moments that are very cute when physical wear is not, being able to enjoy the family or develop from another place..

As for the new time management, already without a routine as a professional athlete, Imhoff added: “I think what I found with this time is to want to put things to do, to cover holes. Then, the problem begins that we started thousands of things and we finished one or two. I found it interesting to be able to analyze it and start trying to lower the amount of things I want to do and to start and finish the things I really do”.

And he also referred to the difficulty of facing daily issues: “One happens that they tell you you have to lift you 2 hours before training, they told you what you had to have breakfast, how much you were going to train, how the training was going to be. When we traveled, at the airport they tell you what door they give you the passage, they take your bag … all that has a very nice side, but it has a very negative side, which is that one stops handling and stops knowing how Renacer again about many things and that I find very interesting “.

“The most difficult thing is to stop being. Always. You eat the story of the movie for many years in which they tell you, ‘How good you are, that this, the other’, but you also have to take the side of the high performance athlete that we also know how to handle frustration. Well, you have to apply it to life. It is not easy “added who played 43 tests with Los Pumas, the last one in the 2023 World Cup against Chile.

“Sometimes we talk and it seems that it is easy, but it is good that today you can talk about these issues. Well, listen when they tell you ‘Enjoy because the race passes fast.’.

And concluded: “As I just finished, I still can’t find a way to transmit that. I hope you can help many young people who finish playing. They have to go through the duel, they have to go through the small depression, through the small moment of instability, but that all that is within normal limits and as long as the values ​​of one”.