{"id":527779,"date":"2025-04-25T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=527779"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:53:34","slug":"i-wanted-to-leave-as-much-as-i-wanted-to-die-navas-on-his-departure-from-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/i-wanted-to-leave-as-much-as-i-wanted-to-die-navas-on-his-departure-from-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI wanted to leave as much as I wanted to die\u201d \u2013 Navas on his departure from Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an interview with Cadena SER, Keylor Navas opened up about his departure from Real Madrid in 2019, revealing that he left the club with a heavy heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having left PSG at the end of the 2023\u20132024 season, the Costa Rican goalkeeper has since found a new home in Argentina with local club Newell\u2019s Old Boys. In a wide-ranging interview with Cadena SER, the 38-year-old discussed several topics, including his emotional exit from Real Madrid. The former Levante shot-stopper admitted that he had hoped to end his career wearing the Merengue shirt, but the arrival of Thibaut Courtois changed everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wanted to leave as much as I wanted to die. I remember saying that. These are decisions you don\u2019t make with your heart, but by thinking about football,\u201d Navas explained. \u201cI left Madrid because I wasn\u2019t getting enough playing time, and another team was offering me that. If it had been up to my heart, I would\u2019ve stayed at Real Madrid for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keylor Navas spent five seasons with Real Madrid, making 153 appearances for the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Cadena SER, Keylor Navas opened up about his departure from Real Madrid in 2019, revealing that he left the club with a heavy heart. Having left PSG at the end of the 2023\u20132024 season, the Costa Rican goalkeeper has since found a new home in Argentina with local club Newell\u2019s Old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":527780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"pays":[114],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-527779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football-news-benews-sport","8":"pays-world"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527779"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=527779"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=527779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}