He’s playing in Ankara. Did you feel the earthquake?
I was at the training center and I didn’t feel anything, but my wife who was at home felt a lot. When I got to the cell phone, I had about 15 or 20 calls from her and some family members who were here with us. They were all at home, they had to take our two children and go down the stairs of the building, with 36 floors. We live on the 14th. But luckily it’s okay.
Do you know when the championship starts again?
They say that on the 3rd or 4th of March, but I don’t know, because there are teams that have already given up and there are many versions, some say that the championship will be suspended and that everything will stay as it is, that the teams go up and nobody goes down, but it’s not nothing decided. Now we are on stage.
Let’s go back there. Born in Lordelo, Vila Real. Whose son?
My father, Ângelo Rodrigues, is a pharmacist and my mother, Maria Catarina, was a housekeeper and I have an older brother, five years old, Fábio.
You spoke of your mother in the past tense. Has she passed away?
She died of cancer when I was eight. As a child, everything was fine with me, I could see that I was thin, but I had no idea what was going on. It was my father who broke the news to me in the car. I got tired of crying.
Did you live with your father and brother? Did your father start rebuilding his personal life again?
My parents lived in a house with my paternal grandparents and we are still there. My grandparents helped a lot. Only relatively recently did my father have someone again.
