The former Barça player is not obsessed with entering Brazil’s final list for Qatar
“I know what I can deliver and what my importance is for the national team”, he stated.
Dani AlvesPumas UNAM soccer player, assured this Tuesday that the press and the fans think more about his possible participation with Brazil in the Qatar 2022 World Cup than he himself.
“People talk more about the World Cup than me. I came to Pumas to do the best I can, to work hard, if that takes me to the World Cup, excellent. I know that what I have done with my national team is going to lead me to that goal, not the fact that I am in this or another team”, underlined the footballer with the most titles in history.
The 39-year-old winger was left out of Brazil’s call for the friendlies on the FIFA date in September against Tunisia and Ghana because, according to the national team’s physical trainer, Fábio Mahseredjian, he is not in good physical condition.
Alves confessed that he is not worried about the situation because he is sure of what he could contribute to the Canarinha directed by Adenor Leonardo Bacchi ‘Tite’.
“I know what I can deliver and what my importance is for the national team. I am the lion of my life and no matter what jungle I am in, I will never eat leaves,” said the World Cup player in South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014.
Dani Alves also spoke about Mexican soccer and praised the level of its players, whom he described as conformists.
“Mexico has excellent soccer players, but I say it with sincerity, they don’t believe it, they conform. People are very conformist. If a soccer player goes to Europe, they have already made their lives, but they don’t think they can be better every day,” he said. .
That opinion was extended to his team, the Pumas, who have had a bad Apertura 2022 tournament, in which they add 14 points and are in 16th place out of 18 in the standings, on the verge of being left out of the playoff phase to which those located between the fifth and twelfth places after the regular phase advance.
“I would like my teammates to believe it a little more and pay the price for competing. You have to feel that to change things and for the results to begin to appear. I need guys to believe in what I’m proposing to be someone,” he said.
From the criticism he receives through social networks, Alves pointed out that they come from people who do nothing to change their reality.
“I’m a little disappointed that people don’t value what they have. People only see the world through their cell phones and they don’t seem to give a shit about life through the phone. What I want for life is to win, I am obsessed with winning; the only thing left to do is to give their opinion”, he underlined.
The Pumas will visit Puebla this Friday in a match pending on the seventh day of Apertura 2022.
