A lesson for life? Every game is a new game. We can enjoy this now, but tomorrow we prepare the semi-final. But you have to erase your good moments too because of what awaits. You have to erase your mistakes, forget about them. “This a euphoric moment, I got very excited, very emotional, all that fury, all that desire. We deserved this before extra time, we deserved it after extra time, but it wasn’t to be,” the goalkeeper said. At the end of this, he was keeping it but as he stood waiting to be presented with his man of the match award, he stood shouting: “This is for you.” It was for all of them, a place in the semi-finals, a strength, a togetherness, echoes of Italy in 2008. Simon earns 988,000 as his salary annually and has a weekly wage of 19,000. Ter Stegen is the highest-earning goalkeeper in La Liga with a salary of close to 5 Million. He credits most of his net worth through his career in La Liga. After the Croatia game he had thrown his shirt into the crowd. Unai Simon has an estimated net worth of more than 1 Million. “This shows what stuff he’s made of,” Luis Enrique said. Here he did so too, getting the reward Sommer would have deserved too. Simón carried on against Croatia and saved them. Which was partly why if that was an accident this was not. Luis Enrique noted how Rafa Nadal extolled having “a goldfish’s memory” and insisted that Simón was the same. It was, he said, just an “accident”, an “error.” One that didn’t affect him then and wouldn’t again. Taking advice from the Jacksons, he refused to blame it on the sunshine. Simón’s approach was blunter, startlingly matter of fact, no room for excuses. What that had meant was almost metaphysical, according to another former Athletic and Spain No 1, Andoni Zubizarreta who wrote in El País of Albert Camus – the philosopher-goalkeeper who learned all he knew about morality and obligations from football. Photograph: Gonzalo Arroyo - UEFA/UEFA/Getty Images Unai Simón of Spain saves the second penalty from Fabian Schär of Switzerland in the penalty shootout after the 1-1 draw in St Petersburg. If redemption had come with that decisive save and Spain’s comeback against Croatia, what was this? Something big, that’s for sure. So did everyone else, streaming from the halfway line and the touchline, meeting in the corner. Last time, he had been on the line unable to prevent Oyarzabal from scoring the only goal in the Copa del Rey final: opponents then in the first all-Basque final, now they were teammates, their parents sitting on the flight to Saint Petersburg together, and when the Real Sociedad forward scored he made straight for the Athletic keeper.
Simón still had to stand and watch Mikel Oyarzabal place the ball on the spot for the second time this year. “Are you giving me that too?” Simón would grin afterwards. Then he watched Rubén Vargas hit over the bar, and break down in tears. "At first they go for experience so Iago was ahead, Remiro had played in the Segunda Division and done well, and many times the one who surprises is not necessarily less well prepared.Which may have been why Fabian Schär, who put his foot through the ball against France, struck with less power and less conviction this time. "It is the logical and natural order of progression of goalkeepers at Lezama," Imanol added. If Simon is so good, then why was he not trusted until after Kepa left? "Sometimes he is a bit hasty but that's normal at 21." His moment Maybe he does not excel at something specific but he's pretty good at almost everything. ""From the years I've trained with him I know he is a pleasure to work work," he said. Imanol went into some more detail about Simon's specific attributes and while there is not one thing that is particularly impressive, he says that he has no obvious weaknesses.
"I think Unai Simon is going to be a great goalkeeper and we don't have any problems in that position with the three we have." Points to improve " Kepa has left an important mark and he clearly has a high level of quality. Imanol, who coached both Kepa and Simon continued: "My son said the other day that 'we have Unai Simon and 80 million euros.' "But Athletic have Herrerin, Remiro and Simon. " Kepa has already shown he is a great goalkeeper," said Andoni Cedrun. "They have produced Kepa and now Simon has debuted, while Remiro has also been in the international Under-21s." The comparison with Kepa "I had seen him in the youth team and he already showed his ability. "Football sometimes has these moments and you have to be prepared and take the opportunity," said Imanol Etxeberria, ex- Athletic goalkeeper. Simon has already won the hearts of the San Mames regulars who have forgetten about Kepa. Athletic Club fans were understandably anxious ahead of the new LaLiga Santander season kicking off after Chelsea's late signing of Kepa, but Unai Simon has shown that they had no reason to worry as he has performed brilliantly in the early season matches, with the latest being against Real Madrid.
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