translated from Spanish: Rodrigo Millar ended morelia’s contract: “My priority is to stay at the club”

The national midfielder Rodrigo Millar referred on Monday to his situation with Monarcas Morelia, after finishing last May 31 his contract with the team of Michoacán.El ‘Chino’ was consulted by his present in the yellow and red cast, where he arrived in 2015 and in which the Chileans Martín Rodríguez, Sebastián Vegas, Gonzalo Jara and Jorge Valdivia militan.” The club wants me to go on for a year, they let me know. There’s going to be a very big budget cut here because nobody goes up or down here, and that makes teams want to cut costs. With the pandemic there will surely be cuts as well, it is logical. Surely this week will be defined if the club continues to play in Morelia or changes towns. Once that is defined, they will communicate to make some offer,” said the flyer in dialogue with radio Cooperativa.Yes, the former Huachipato and Colo Colo clarified that “my priority is Morelia because it is the club in which I have been five years. But I don’t miss anything. My idea is to keep playing and I want to extend my career, what do I know, one or two more years.” On the other hand, Millar was clear in pointing out that his retirement from football would like to live it in the steelmakers or the ‘Cacique’, the paintings he has defended in Chile. “The priorities to retire are Colo Colo and Huachipato, but I know it’s very complicated because the clubs have different needs, more with everything that’s going on,” he said. Finally, the 38-year-old revealed his best and worst moments by dressing the Chilean national team’s house.” Any footballer’s dream is to play with his national team, to be in a World Cup, and more than to have scored a goal (to Spain), I will never forget when we sang the National Anthem in the match against Honduras. That’s where I got to be a starter and spent your whole career in a couple of seconds, all your childhood and with all the Chilean people singing,” he said. It makes you want to cry, because it’s exciting to be at a World Cup, to have seen Chile in France 98 when you were a kid, and to be there after so many years, and surely those are the best memories I have of my career,” she added. Meanwhile, Millar said that “the toughest moments in the national team were to be left out of the World Cup in Brazil and the 2015 Copa America. It’s been a tough time.”” I had already played the World Cup in South Africa, but every player had the illusion of playing another World Cup, so it was a nice possibility and I had done the whole previous process and practically stayed out the last day (…) And for the 2015 Copa America it was even harder, because I had done the whole process, I had played the friendlies and the illusion was much bigger because it was played in Chile, with our people, and I was confident that Chile was going to reach the final,” he said.

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