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De Jong reveals something you didn't knew [Special Interview with SPORT]

The new FC Barcelona signing opened up about everything in an exclusive interview with SPORT

Were the first training sessions at FC Barcelona as you expected?

De Jong : "๐ˆ ๐ž๐ง๐ฃ๐จ๐ฒ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ, ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ž๐ฅ๐. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฐ ๐๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ, ๐š๐ฌ ๐ˆ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐."


When you arrived at Barcelona, did you feel shy or timid?

De Jong : "๐ˆ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐’๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ˆ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง ๐’๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐๐š๐ฉ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ. ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ˆ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐ž."

And when you're on the ball, you don't feel shy?

De Jong : "๐๐จ. ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐š ๐Ÿ๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐›๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐ฌ๐ก๐ฒ. ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐œ๐ก."

How would you define Frankie de Jong?

De Jong : "๐Ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ž๐ฅ๐, ๐ˆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ. ๐“๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ, ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ, ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐›๐›๐ฅ๐ž. ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐œ๐ก, ๐ˆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ค ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ."


Have you had the chance to talk with Ernesto Valverde? What's your (early) impression of him?

De Jong : "๐ˆ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ. ๐‡๐ž'๐ฌ ๐š ๐œ๐จ๐š๐œ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐. ๐‡๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐, ๐ก๐ž'๐ฌ '๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐จ' (๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ฑ๐ž๐). ๐‡๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐›๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ."

Has he told you which position he'd like you to play in?

De Jong : "๐–๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ง'๐ญ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐ž๐ญ. ๐ˆ๐Ÿ ๐ˆ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ค ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ, ๐ˆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ˆ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ข๐๐Ÿ๐ข๐ž๐ฅ๐. ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ."

Valverde said you were a player for the future, but I suppose you see yourself very much in the present too...

De Jong : "๐ˆ ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ! ๐˜๐ž๐ฌ, ๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐š ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ˆ ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ๐ž ๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐š ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ. ๐Ž๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž, ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐š ๐ค๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐š๐ซรง๐š, ๐š ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ. ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ž ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ž'๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ."

Which player has especially helped you in these days?

De Jong : "๐€๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ. ๐ˆ๐Ÿ ๐ˆ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐จ๐ง๐ž, ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ, ๐ˆ'๐ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ญ๐ฌ. ๐‡๐ž'๐ฌ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง ๐’๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ก, ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐›. ๐๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฆ๐ž."

Why were you so keen to wear the number 21 shirt?

De Jong : "๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ง'๐ญ ๐›๐ž ๐š ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ˆ ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ž."

Why is it special?

De Jong : "๐Œ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐๐Ÿ๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐›๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ก๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐€๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐š ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š ๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ ๐จ. ๐‡๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐›๐ข๐  ๐Ÿ๐š๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ซ. ๐–๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ˆ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐€๐ฃ๐š๐ฑ ๐ˆ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ž '๐Ÿ๐Ÿ'."

What do you think of the signing of Griezmann?

De Jong : "๐ˆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ฐ๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ฒ ๐ค๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ. ๐‡๐ž'๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ค๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ž'๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ซ. ๐‡๐ž'๐ฌ ๐š ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ž'๐ฌ ๐š๐๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ."

Is the dressing room still affected by the loss at Anfield or the Copa final defeat?

De Jong : "๐ˆ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ'๐ฏ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ ๐š๐ญ ๐€๐ง๐Ÿ๐ข๐ž๐ฅ๐ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐›๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ž ๐ฌ๐š๐ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ. ๐Ž๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž, ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐š๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐š๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐€๐ฃ๐š๐ฑ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฆ๐ข-๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐š๐ ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐“๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ก๐š๐ฆ. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ฏ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž, ๐Ÿ๐จ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ง'๐ญ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐š๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐  (๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ)."

Is the Champions League a special trophy for you and the team?

De Jong : "๐ˆ ๐œ๐š๐ง'๐ญ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐ญ. ๐…๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐›๐ž ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐‹๐ž๐š๐ ๐ฎ๐ž. ๐‹๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐‹๐ž๐š๐ ๐ฎ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ ๐จ๐ญ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐œ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐“๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ก๐š๐ฆ. ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐ญ ๐ง๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง."

Nowadays at Barcelona they say it's a disaster if the team doesn't win the Champions League...

De Jong : "๐“๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž'๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ญ ๐๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐š ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐š๐ซ ๐š๐ญ ๐€๐ฃ๐š๐ฑ, ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐„๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž. ๐ˆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ ๐š๐ญ ๐š ๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐› ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐š ๐ญ๐จ (๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ) ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ . ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ˆ ๐๐จ๐ง'๐ญ ๐š๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐‹๐ž๐š๐ ๐ฎ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐š ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง. ๐–๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐›๐ž ๐š ๐›๐ข๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฎ๐œ๐ค๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐‹๐ž๐š๐ ๐ฎ๐ž ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž, ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง."

You said you came here to be a starter but do you think it will be difficult to play ahead of experienced players such as Arturo Vidal and Rakitic?

De Jong : "๐ˆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐š ๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐› ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐š, ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐, ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ˆ ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐ ๐ˆ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐œ๐ก, ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ข๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐š๐œ๐ก ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐๐ž."

You seem very confident. Are you not worried?


De Jong : "๐Ž๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž, ๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐š๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ง'๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐š. ๐ˆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐๐จ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐š๐œ๐ก ๐๐ž๐œ๐ข๐๐ž๐ฌ."

A lot of Barรงa fans are enthusiastic because they feel with you, the team will recover its essence, its style. Is that added pressure?

De Jong : "๐ˆ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ ๐š๐๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž. ๐ˆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐๐š๐ซรง๐š ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ, ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ. ๐ˆ ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ ๐›๐ž๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐จ๐ญ๐›๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ž๐ง๐ฃ๐จ๐ฒ. ๐€๐ง๐, ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž, ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐ž๐ฌ. ๐“๐ก๐š๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ ๐จ๐š๐ฅ."

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