Ligue 1 matches are often settled in the first half and you don’t continue working at the same rhythm for the 90 minutes, you notice that in the Champions League where you can’t sleep for a second. Sometimes in France, you can go for one month against teams which demand little effort.

Javier Pastore

Javier Matías Pastore (Spanish pronunciation: [xa??je? ma?ti.as pas?to?e]; born 20 June 1989) is an Argentine footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club Roma and the Argentina national team. Pastore began his club career with Talleres and then Huracán in his native Argentina before moving to Serie A team Palermo in 2009 for a reported transfer fee of €4.7 million. In 2011, French side Paris Saint-Germain bought him for a reported €39.8 million. He won numerous domestic honours with the club, including five Ligue 1 titles, before joining Roma in 2018, for a fee of €24.7 million. At international level, Pastore made his senior debut in 2010, and has since gone on to make over 20 appearances for his country. He represented Argentina at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and at three editions of the Copa América, reaching consecutive finals of the latter competition in 2015 and 2016.

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