‘Nobody’s business’ – Barcelona star confirms plans to continue smoking | OneFootball

New Barcelona signing Wojciech Szczęsny has admitted that he has no intention of putting an end to his occasional smoking of cigarettes.

The subject of his smoking is one which has proven a talking point throughout Szczęsny’s career.

Across stints at the likes of Arsenal and Juventus, the Pole was on occasion spotted enjoying a cigarette, a somewhat unusual practice for a professional footballer.

As much, it was always assured, came as a method of calming his nerves, with Szczęsny adamant that it has never affected his performance on the pitch.

Speaking in an interview with Mundo Deportivo on Wednesday, the 34-year-old was therefore eager to reiterate as much 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. 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.”

Conor Laird – GSFN