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In small towns you have fewer things to do, so we had our football pitch that we always used to play on. The one place we usually went to was Vic, which is 15 minutes away, and there were five or six pitches – we used to play there in the neighbourhood with other friends. We used to enjoy that because you could go out of your town and see new things; that’s when you can learn new things. When we were 15 or 16 years old, every time we had the chance, we would take the train to Barcelona to spend the day there, to get out of our daily routine.
Yes, my town is pretty happy seeing how I matured and fought to be where I am today. A boy from Sant Julià de Vilatorta, a town with a population of less than 4,000, is playing in the Champions League. It is not easy, so I have to feel proud. I feel that my family, my friends and the friends of my friends, who are also my friends in the town – everyone is really proud of me. I know they are following me and they’re Brugge fans right now.
I remember we had a meeting – a video-call with the people from the club. They called me and I was with my agents, and they explained the project to me and showed me the facilities, which are wonderful. They told me I could develop here. I was told that I would get to play every weekend and that this was a good place for me to develop. I listened to that with my agents and we could see that the club was interested. For me, it’s very important to feel valued. They were giving me responsibilities. We looked into the history of the club and the club gave me a lot of information. But we really liked the project throughout the negotiations, so we came here without thinking twice.
I think that, at the end of the day, you need to have people you can trust around you – I have a performance specialist, Julio Figueroa, and he’s helped me to settle in well. There was a new language, a new city, new team-mates – everything was new. If we hadn’t had an idea and a plan, things would have gone wrong. So before coming here we planned for everything, from looking for a house to how to relate to my team-mates.
I don’t know what to tell you. When I step out to play a Champions League match, it’s as if I was playing a league match or a game in Primera Federación [the third tier] in Spain. I don’t have to train or behave differently because it’s the Champions League. I prepare the same way for the league and the Champions League and I step onto the pitch to play football, have a good time and, above all, win.
In small towns you have fewer things to do, so we had our football pitch that we always used to play on. The one place we usually went to was Vic, which is 15 minutes away, and there were five or six pitches – we used to play there in the neighbourhood with other friends. We used to enjoy that because you could go out of your town and see new things; that’s when you can learn new things. When we were 15 or 16 years old, every time we had the chance, we would take the train to Barcelona to spend the day there, to get out of our daily routine.
Yes, my town is pretty happy seeing how I matured and fought to be where I am today. A boy from Sant Julià de Vilatorta, a town with a population of less than 4,000, is playing in the Champions League. It is not easy, so I have to feel proud. I feel that my family, my friends and the friends of my friends, who are also my friends in the town – everyone is really proud of me. I know they are following me and they’re Brugge fans right now.
I remember we had a meeting – a video-call with the people from the club. They called me and I was with my agents, and they explained the project to me and showed me the facilities, which are wonderful. They told me I could develop here. I was told that I would get to play every weekend and that this was a good place for me to develop. I listened to that with my agents and we could see that the club was interested. For me, it’s very important to feel valued. They were giving me responsibilities. We looked into the history of the club and the club gave me a lot of information. But we really liked the project throughout the negotiations, so we came here without thinking twice.
I think that, at the end of the day, you need to have people you can trust around you – I have a performance specialist, Julio Figueroa, and he’s helped me to settle in well. There was a new language, a new city, new team-mates – everything was new. If we hadn’t had an idea and a plan, things would have gone wrong. So before coming here we planned for everything, from looking for a house to how to relate to my team-mates.
I don’t know what to tell you. When I step out to play a Champions League match, it’s as if I was playing a league match or a game in Primera Federación [the third tier] in Spain. I don’t have to train or behave differently because it’s the Champions League. I prepare the same way for the league and the Champions League and I step onto the pitch to play football, have a good time and, above all, win.
In small towns you have fewer things to do, so we had our football pitch that we always used to play on. The one place we usually went to was Vic, which is 15 minutes away, and there were five or six pitches – we used to play there in the neighbourhood with other friends. We used to enjoy that because you could go out of your town and see new things; that’s when you can learn new things. When we were 15 or 16 years old, every time we had the chance, we would take the train to Barcelona to spend the day there, to get out of our daily routine.
Yes, my town is pretty happy seeing how I matured and fought to be where I am today. A boy from Sant Julià de Vilatorta, a town with a population of less than 4,000, is playing in the Champions League. It is not easy, so I have to feel proud. I feel that my family, my friends and the friends of my friends, who are also my friends in the town – everyone is really proud of me. I know they are following me and they’re Brugge fans right now.
I remember we had a meeting – a video-call with the people from the club. They called me and I was with my agents, and they explained the project to me and showed me the facilities, which are wonderful. They told me I could develop here. I was told that I would get to play every weekend and that this was a good place for me to develop. I listened to that with my agents and we could see that the club was interested. For me, it’s very important to feel valued. They were giving me responsibilities. We looked into the history of the club and the club gave me a lot of information. But we really liked the project throughout the negotiations, so we came here without thinking twice.
I think that, at the end of the day, you need to have people you can trust around you – I have a performance specialist, Julio Figueroa, and he’s helped me to settle in well. There was a new language, a new city, new team-mates – everything was new. If we hadn’t had an idea and a plan, things would have gone wrong. So before coming here we planned for everything, from looking for a house to how to relate to my team-mates.
I don’t know what to tell you. When I step out to play a Champions League match, it’s as if I was playing a league match or a game in Primera Federación [the third tier] in Spain. I don’t have to train or behave differently because it’s the Champions League. I prepare the same way for the league and the Champions League and I step onto the pitch to play football, have a good time and, above all, win.
In small towns you have fewer things to do, so we had our football pitch that we always used to play on. The one place we usually went to was Vic, which is 15 minutes away, and there were five or six pitches – we used to play there in the neighbourhood with other friends. We used to enjoy that because you could go out of your town and see new things; that’s when you can learn new things. When we were 15 or 16 years old, every time we had the chance, we would take the train to Barcelona to spend the day there, to get out of our daily routine.
Yes, my town is pretty happy seeing how I matured and fought to be where I am today. A boy from Sant Julià de Vilatorta, a town with a population of less than 4,000, is playing in the Champions League. It is not easy, so I have to feel proud. I feel that my family, my friends and the friends of my friends, who are also my friends in the town – everyone is really proud of me. I know they are following me and they’re Brugge fans right now.
I remember we had a meeting – a video-call with the people from the club. They called me and I was with my agents, and they explained the project to me and showed me the facilities, which are wonderful. They told me I could develop here. I was told that I would get to play every weekend and that this was a good place for me to develop. I listened to that with my agents and we could see that the club was interested. For me, it’s very important to feel valued. They were giving me responsibilities. We looked into the history of the club and the club gave me a lot of information. But we really liked the project throughout the negotiations, so we came here without thinking twice.
I think that, at the end of the day, you need to have people you can trust around you – I have a performance specialist, Julio Figueroa, and he’s helped me to settle in well. There was a new language, a new city, new team-mates – everything was new. If we hadn’t had an idea and a plan, things would have gone wrong. So before coming here we planned for everything, from looking for a house to how to relate to my team-mates.
I don’t know what to tell you. When I step out to play a Champions League match, it’s as if I was playing a league match or a game in Primera Federación [the third tier] in Spain. I don’t have to train or behave differently because it’s the Champions League. I prepare the same way for the league and the Champions League and I step onto the pitch to play football, have a good time and, above all, win.
In small towns you have fewer things to do, so we had our football pitch that we always used to play on. The one place we usually went to was Vic, which is 15 minutes away, and there were five or six pitches – we used to play there in the neighbourhood with other friends. We used to enjoy that because you could go out of your town and see new things; that’s when you can learn new things. When we were 15 or 16 years old, every time we had the chance, we would take the train to Barcelona to spend the day there, to get out of our daily routine.
Yes, my town is pretty happy seeing how I matured and fought to be where I am today. A boy from Sant Julià de Vilatorta, a town with a population of less than 4,000, is playing in the Champions League. It is not easy, so I have to feel proud. I feel that my family, my friends and the friends of my friends, who are also my friends in the town – everyone is really proud of me. I know they are following me and they’re Brugge fans right now.
I remember we had a meeting – a video-call with the people from the club. They called me and I was with my agents, and they explained the project to me and showed me the facilities, which are wonderful. They told me I could develop here. I was told that I would get to play every weekend and that this was a good place for me to develop. I listened to that with my agents and we could see that the club was interested. For me, it’s very important to feel valued. They were giving me responsibilities. We looked into the history of the club and the club gave me a lot of information. But we really liked the project throughout the negotiations, so we came here without thinking twice.
I think that, at the end of the day, you need to have people you can trust around you – I have a performance specialist, Julio Figueroa, and he’s helped me to settle in well. There was a new language, a new city, new team-mates – everything was new. If we hadn’t had an idea and a plan, things would have gone wrong. So before coming here we planned for everything, from looking for a house to how to relate to my team-mates.
I don’t know what to tell you. When I step out to play a Champions League match, it’s as if I was playing a league match or a game in Primera Federación [the third tier] in Spain. I don’t have to train or behave differently because it’s the Champions League. I prepare the same way for the league and the Champions League and I step onto the pitch to play football, have a good time and, above all, win.
In small towns you have fewer things to do, so we had our football pitch that we always used to play on. The one place we usually went to was Vic, which is 15 minutes away, and there were five or six pitches – we used to play there in the neighbourhood with other friends. We used to enjoy that because you could go out of your town and see new things; that’s when you can learn new things. When we were 15 or 16 years old, every time we had the chance, we would take the train to Barcelona to spend the day there, to get out of our daily routine.
Yes, my town is pretty happy seeing how I matured and fought to be where I am today. A boy from Sant Julià de Vilatorta, a town with a population of less than 4,000, is playing in the Champions League. It is not easy, so I have to feel proud. I feel that my family, my friends and the friends of my friends, who are also my friends in the town – everyone is really proud of me. I know they are following me and they’re Brugge fans right now.
I remember we had a meeting – a video-call with the people from the club. They called me and I was with my agents, and they explained the project to me and showed me the facilities, which are wonderful. They told me I could develop here. I was told that I would get to play every weekend and that this was a good place for me to develop. I listened to that with my agents and we could see that the club was interested. For me, it’s very important to feel valued. They were giving me responsibilities. We looked into the history of the club and the club gave me a lot of information. But we really liked the project throughout the negotiations, so we came here without thinking twice.
I think that, at the end of the day, you need to have people you can trust around you – I have a performance specialist, Julio Figueroa, and he’s helped me to settle in well. There was a new language, a new city, new team-mates – everything was new. If we hadn’t had an idea and a plan, things would have gone wrong. So before coming here we planned for everything, from looking for a house to how to relate to my team-mates.
I don’t know what to tell you. When I step out to play a Champions League match, it’s as if I was playing a league match or a game in Primera Federación [the third tier] in Spain. I don’t have to train or behave differently because it’s the Champions League. I prepare the same way for the league and the Champions League and I step onto the pitch to play football, have a good time and, above all, win.
