Wojciech Szczesny Ready To Light Up Barcelona, On And Off The Pitch

Polish goalkeeper, Wojciech Szczesny, recently reversed his retirement decision to join Barcelona, but he is not about to change how he lives his personal life, and that includes smoking.

After Marc-Andre ter Stegen sustained a long-term injury, Barcelona successfully persuaded the former Juventus goalkeeper to join as a free agent. Szczesny feels that his actions outside of football should not concern anyone.

“There are things that I don’t change in my personal life and it’s nobody’s business if I smoke. I believe that it doesn’t affect what I do on the pitch, I work twice as hard,” Szczesny told Mundo Deportivo in an interview.

“I don’t do it in front of kids because I don’t want to have a bad influence on them. Sometimes, somebody will take a photo from the trees where I have a cigarette; that’s on them, not on me.

“If somebody thinks that I will change the way I am in my personal life they can think again because I am who I am. I’ve been this way my whole life.”