{"id":19468,"date":"2026-07-30T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/19468\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T22:30:08","slug":"leonardo-rocha-exclusive-poland-changed-my-life-i-would-make-the-same-decision-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/19468\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo Rocha Exclusive: &#8220;Poland Changed My Life. I Would Make the Same Decision Again.&#8221; \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leonardo Rocha:<br \/>For me, it&#8217;s actually very simple. Whenever I played consistently, I scored goals. Throughout my career in Poland, my performances always depended on one thing\u2014playing regularly. Before my meniscus injury at Radomiak, I had scored six goals in twelve league matches and was starting every game. Then I got injured, Pedro Henrique arrived, and after recovering I spent months on the bench. The following season I became a regular starter again, played almost every match, and finished with eleven league goals. Then I moved to Rak\u00f3w. Again, I wasn&#8217;t playing consistently. Sometimes I came on for five minutes, sometimes ten, maybe fifteen. It&#8217;s difficult for any striker to make an impact under those circumstances. Later I joined Zag\u0142\u0119bie Lubin, became a starter once again, and immediately started scoring. Football isn&#8217;t always complicated. A striker needs rhythm, confidence and minutes on the pitch. I honestly believe Polish football never saw the very best version of Leonardo Rocha because I was rarely given an entire season as the undisputed number nine. If you trust me and let me play, I&#8217;ll score goals. If you expect me to change a game every weekend after coming on for five or ten minutes, that&#8217;s a much more difficult task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leonardo Rocha:For me, it&#8217;s actually very simple. Whenever I played consistently, I scored goals. Throughout my career in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[875,9,703],"class_list":["post-19468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-pko-bp-ekstraklasa","tag-poland","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}