New Barcelona signing Wojciech Szczęsny disclosed that he has no plans of giving up his occasional smoking of cigarettes after signing a two-year deal.
Szczęsny’s smoking habits have been a topic of discussion throughout his career. The Pole joined Barcelona one month after he retired from football.
During his time at Arsenal and Juventus, the Polish international was occasionally observed smoking, which is unusual for a professional footballer.
Szczęsny stated that it was a method of relaxing his anxieties and that it had no impact on his performances on the pitch.
In an interview with Mundo Deportivo on Wednesday, the 34-year-old was eager to reiterate his point once more.
Asked ‘what can you say to the fans about your addiction to tobacco?’, Szczęsny responded as follows:
“Absolutely nothing, these are things I don’t change in my personal life and it’s nobody’s business if I smoke. 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,” he said.
“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.”
