At PSG since 2020, Danilo, a 30-year-old midfielder, gave an extensive interview to the daily West France in which he addressed today’s first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League against Real Madrid and many other topics.
Revealing that the priority when he arrived in Paris was to learn French, Danilo recalled Euro-2016: “Even in Portugal, everyone said we were playing badly and we were very lucky. But within the group we knew we could do great things!”
Noting that he is not shy, but “calm”, he said that the French people “are very critical” and spoke about Messi. Since the comparison with Cristiano Ronaldo was inevitable, Danilo kicked it to the corner and told an episode with CR7 in Portugal-Irelanda, a qualifying match for the 2022 World Cup held on September 1 in the Algarve: «We lost 0-1 and 2 minutes from the end Ronaldo went to the bench to drink water and said: ‘Don’t worry, we’re going to win’. I looked at the stadium scorer, I didn’t say anything, but the truth is that we won 2-1 with two goals from him [aos 89’ e 90+6’].»
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