Roma midfielder Radja Nainggolan reveals ‘I was supposed to be at Zaventem airport yesterday’ and reacts to the Brussels terror attacks.
Terrorists struck the Belgian capital yesterday in strikes at the airport and a metro station, killing 34 people.
Nainggolan, who is in Belgium for their international friendly with Portugal scheduled for Tuesday, explained that he doesn’t know what is going to happen now.
“I’m ok, luckily I’m in Antwerp and I never got to Brussels,” he said to Gazzetta dello Sport.
Roma midfielder Radja Nainggolan reveals ‘I was supposed to be at Zaventem airport yesterday’ and reacts to the Brussels terror attacks.
Terrorists struck the Belgian capital yesterday in strikes at the airport and a metro station, killing 34 people.
Nainggolan, who is in Belgium for their international friendly with Portugal scheduled for Tuesday, explained that he doesn’t know what is going to happen now.
“I’m ok, luckily I’m in Antwerp and I never got to Brussels,” he said to Gazzetta dello Sport.
“I had to go there yesterday morning, then the chaos erupted. You breathe with fear here as well, the telephones are out of action, moving is impossible, children were made to stay in schools until new announcements.
“And anyone who goes on the street with a bag or backpack is searched.
“If I hadn’t had a commitment with my sponsor, I could’ve found myself in Zaventem airport yesterday morning.
“It was just because of an event I had to attend that I arrived a day early in Belgium, but in Antwerp.
“Otherwise I would’ve taken a morning flight from Rome and would’ve landed directly in Brussels.
“It was fixed for me to be picked up at 12 at the hotel outside the airport. Instead everything changed, it was announced to us that afternoon training was cancelled, that the training camp was suspended until told otherwise.
“Now we don’t know what we should do. Go to Brussels? Will the match with Portugal be cancelled? It’s difficult to move around here, everything is heavily guarded.
“After the explosions in Zaventem I said ‘now a second and third will arrive’. I wasn’t wrong. My fear was that they could strike Antwerp: it’s a great city, the most important in Belgium along with Brussels, I was afraid that it might be targeted by terrorists.”