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Barcelona's new signing addressed the controversy over his smoking habits.
Barcelona's new goalkeeper, Wojciech Szczesny, has fired back at critics of his smoking habit, stating clearly that he will not stop.
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According to him, Szczesny jumped at the opportunity to coach Barcelona and had no issue thrusting himself back into the sport weeks after he retired from Juventus.
What he said
Szczesny is infamous for his smoking habits, with several paparazzi pictures having caught him with a cigarette.
The Polish shotstopper was asked about this by Spanish press and he explained that it does not affect his on-field performance, and he had no intention of stopping any time soon.
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“Absolutely nothing, these are things I don’t change in my personal life and it’s nobody’s business if I smoke,” the former Arsenal man said.
“It doesn’t affect, I think it doesn’t affect and what I do on the football pitch is work twice as hard. And I don’t do it in front of the kids so it doesn’t have a bad influence on them.
“Sometimes someone takes a picture of me hiding behind the trees where I can’t see them. That’s not up to me. I try to hide it and not show it to people. But if someone thinks I’m going to change my way of being in my personal life, they can think again because I am who I am.
“I’ve been like this all my life and these things are simply nobody’s business. I want to be judged as a goalkeeper and not for looking for stories where nobody really cares.”
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