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‘It was a real eye-opener’: Nicklas Bendtner claims smoking happened at ‘every club’ he played for and reveals he found 10-12 team-mates doing it in the TOILETS on his first day at Juventus… including legends Gianluigi Buffon and Andrea Pirlo
- Nicklas Bendtner has claimed that many top players smoke cigarettes
- The 32-year-old spent the 2012-13 season on loan at Serie A giants Juventus
- He says players such as Andrea Pirlo and Gianluigi Buffon smoked sometimes
Former Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner has claimed that smoking has been common at every club he has been at.
Bendtner told 5 Live: “It was in the bathroom, I couldn’t find the guys and it was a little bit weird.
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Nicklas Bendtner has claimed top players at every club he’s played at have smoked
“You know, it was my first day. Obviously I got quite quickly onto the coffee wagon as well.
“Then I found ten or twelve of them in the toilets, just having a coffee, talking, enjoying each other’s company – and having a cig.
“It was an amazing sight and made me feel like this was something I will enjoy.”
When asked about Pirlo and Buffon specifically, Bendtner insisted they could not be faulted for their professionalism.
He added: “What can you say to these guys?
“If you look at their careers and how professional they are, it was a real eye opener to me actually regarding these two.
Bendtner (L) revealed Andrea Pirlo (C) would sometimes enjoy a cigarette in the toilet
“Because the professionalism they showed on the pitch and the camaraderie was on a different level, so no one thought anything of [smoking].”
He noted: “It’s funny because you remember when Mario Balotelli came to England and everyone said about him smoking in the toilets.
“And it became this massive story in the paper – a player smoking.
“In every single club I’ve played in, players have been smoking.
“It was much more of a thing in Italy, much more of a normality than in England.”
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