Ask ourselves Mazraoui how he managed to play as many matches in his first season at Manchester UnitedAnd he thinks that the abandonment of soft drinks was more important than a heart procedure.
Mazraoui was treated after taking off at halftime at halftime Aston Villa In October after having had palpitations. He had already taken a break in football Bayern Munich In 2023 due to the inflammation of the heart tissue caused by the cocvid.
The 27 -year -old Moroccan was back for the next United match, and barely missed one since he accumulated 55 appearances – more than any other player alongside the captain Bruno Fernandes. Last month, Mazraoui exceeded the number of minutes he managed in two seasons in Bayern.
It is a surprising statistic given the heart issue. “It’s a long time ago, there are time ago,” he said. “No, everything was fine. It was like nothing big or huge, nothing worthy of mention.
“It made no difference with her or without her. But personally, I managed to play a lot of minutes and play in different positions. Personally, I think that I have succeeded very well on average.
“You would say it’s strange to play even more games. I changed certain things, some small details. I think that at the top of football, the details really count.
Osesir Mazraoui says that the exchange of carbonated drinks for water is the key to its consistency
The return of the wing barely missed a match, accumulating 55 appearances for Manchester United
He had a heart procedure after the palpitations but says that the change of drink has done more
So what is his secret then?
“Just a little thing. I no longer drink sodas. Yeah, soft drinks. It changes a lot, I think, because sugar, you no longer get it in your body. So just the water makes a huge difference in the end.
“It was just to try to see if there is a difference. It’s really nice to have a little drink with dinner, but the sugar is really bad for your body.
Mazraoui is not kidding when he says that he has played in many positions this season after finding Erik Ten Hag in summer, joining United Bayern in an agreement of a value of 17 million pounds sterling.
Seven during the last count, mainly as a wing or part of a back-three since Ruben Amorim replaced Ten Hag in November. It included an appearance as No. 10 against Fenerbahce in October, two games after heart procedure.
“It was a surprise,” smiles Mazraoui. “I did it a long time ago. But to be honest, I am surprised that you told me that I played in seven positions. I didn’t know that.
“It was a long season, a difficult season. In a season when you win everything, you enter a kind of flow. You can kick me, I won’t feel it. But when you lose a lot of games, you just give me a little step on my toes and you are in pain. It is a big difference.
“After playing so many games, I didn’t do it quite often in my career, so of course, you will feel it a little in the body.”
He sent a message to a personal level with Erik Ten Hag from the Dutch Limot
The pair was very successful together in Ajax but things did not work in Old Trafford
Ten Hag’s departure at the end of October was particularly difficult for Mazraoui who won three titles and two double under the Dutch in Ajax.
“Really, I was not satisfied with that,” he adds. “The limot’s limot is always a feeling of disappointment. You also feel it as a player.
“I was disappointed with that in me and everyone was too, I think. It was not the happiest part.
“I have always been quite good with Erik. It’s not that I speak to him every week, but I just sent him a text once or twice more personally. Like, how are you going as a person, because it is not just football.
Amorim was another type of pattern. Not only changes system but also brutal honesty on united’s failures in public. Can it be difficult to hear for a player?
“No, for me personally no, because that’s how I’m too,” says Mazraoui. “I don’t hide behind anything, and it is also the manager.
“He takes responsibility. He knows that he is finally the leader of the club because he is the manager. This is something that I really like about it.
“He’s really honest, really simple. He hides nothing.
Brutal honesty of Ruben Amorim in press conferences is something that Mazraoui “loves a lot”
The success of United in the Europa League is a “ strange feeling ” given their poor inner season
This brings us to the final of the Europa League on Wednesday against Tottenham in Bilbao and the chance to lift a trophy and qualify for the Champions League at the end of a season which could see one of these two large clubs end a place above the relegation area.
“It’s a strange feeling, of course,” says Mazraoui. “As a player, you had an excellent season in the Europa League but one of the worst seasons of the Premier League.
“Can you be happy?” Even if you win, have you stayed sad? To be sad? You are somewhere between the two because you are happy that you have won a price but, on the other hand, it is always this feeling of a competition in which you failed.
“Winning a trophy is never easy. At the end of your career, you are looking back this season, you will be proud to win the Europa League – if we win Wednesday – more than you are going to examine failure in the Premier League. Of course, you can be proud.
The difference between the form of United in the Premier League and Europa League perplexed the players themselves. Unbeaten in Europe compared to a record club of 18 national defeats.
“It’s something really difficult to say, because we always manage in the Europa League to finally win. We can do it in the Premier League, ”explains Mazraoui.
“I think the biggest example is Lyon, where we were almost died in the last 10 minutes of the match (quarter -final). Extract, everyone is tired and everything, and you always manage to win.
“We have this kind of spirit of combat in the Europa League that we may be missing in the Premier League.
“I can’t really tell you what are the reasons for this because it is mentally something and something in the state of mind that should be there, but several times this season was not.”