2003/06/19 http://www.deportivo-la-coruna.com/ DONATO: "I WILL RETIRE IF DEPORTIVO OFFER ME A JOB" The only option for Donato to retire at the end of this season is if he gets offered a job by Deportivo. Anyway, the match of Saturday against Espanyol could be the final one of Donato at the club as probably he won't get a new contract as a player. Being 40-years old, the most veteran player of the Liga doesn't wants to quit football, but also is fond of staying in La Coruna. Q: Will it be your final match at Deportivo this Saturday? A: I don't know, as the only thing I know is that it's the last one of the season. It seems that people want me to say goodbye to Deportivo, but I already have said many times that I want to continue here. My time seems to come to an end, but nobody of Deportivo has told me so. Hopefully it won't be like that, as it would be a horror scenario after 10 years at the club. Q: How would you like to see your goodbye at Deportivo? A: I cannot ask anything of the people, as they always have treated me in a great way. But I would like to have a "goodbye match", with players like Aldair , Zico, Rai... but let's not dream about it. Q: Will you quit football if you won't get a new contract at Deportivo? A: I have the condition to continue. But I won't use this like an advertisement or something like that, because I could have done better this season. I would like to play at an ambitious club, although it being from the Segunda Division. Still, if Deportivo offer me a position, I will stay here because I like to live here. Q: What's your feeling at the end of this season? A: It has been a strange season because of the results and the "Mallorca" incident. The fact that I got fined has hurt me a lot. The worst was still that Enrique Rodriguez (the lawyer of the club) and Montiel (a boardmember) wrote some bad things about me. But I have a clear consciousness and the decision that was made was only to the benefit of the club. Q: Would you like to have someone of the club talking to you? A: Of course I would like to see somebody saying something to me, whether they will count on me, because I have been around for ten seasons and I have given to the club all I had. Q: What moment will you remember of Deportivo? A: One should not look back in life, but I always will remember the penalty of Djukic in 1994 against Valencia which cost us the title. I will remember it because I was supposed to take that penalty... But Arsenio had substituted me some minutes before. Q: And which corner would you have chosen? A: If I would say I would have scored that penalty it would discredit Djukic, but I would have taken the other corner. I had noted before that the Valencia goalkeeper had stopped a penalty of Valladolid diving to his right, and therefore I would have chosen the left corner. I have asked several times to God why he took me off the pitch that night... --

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