Wojciech Szczesny made the recent decision to reverse his retirement and join Barcelona, but the Polish goalkeeper is not ready to reverse other traits of his personal life, including smoking.
After a serious knee injury to Marc-Andre ter Stegen which is set to keep him out long term, Barça convinced the former Juventus keeper to sign as a free agent.
However, the 34-year-old is of the opinion that his business off the pitch remains a concern of no one else but him.
“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 said to 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.”
