Pepe, the mythical defender who passes by the sons of Real Madrid, here is a review of his career in an interview with the diary Expresso that publishes these holidays in Portugal and in which the best anecdotes that live with the elasticity of the joint merengue are published.
Pepe makes sure that the Madrid poster has no motive
Casi llega al Deportivo de la Coruña
‘Ufff … ¿Mi fichaje por el Real Madrid? Everything was very fast, but I was able to do it before, but not in Madrid, but at Deportivo La Coruña, in the final of my first year in Porto. President Pinto da Costa told me: “Nee, nee, nee, de ninguna manera, te quedarás máis aqui en el FC Porto”. But the first press is writing some things and Jorge Mendes says something else: “There is an interesting English club, this is another …”. And how many more, more apartheid clubs. In the third year, it was renovated by five others and at the end of the season the Real Madrid proposal, although there are other opportunities. And there are a lot of Real Madrid fans, but it seems that a lot of people have decided that this is a place for them, because it was very difficult and, above all, because there was a central cement. At the moment, Madrid has a tool to get rid of Hierro’s health and I want this challenge. Everybody wants to go to another store, but always be very direct ”.
His file by Real Madrid
” It cost 30 million euros and was won by a champion like the Portuguese … The Spanish prince is much more expensive than the Portuguese, so he is guaranteed (huge). My picture was like this: it was the concentration of Porto, I bought it at the airport and when I arrived at the T4 of Madrid there were many periodicals in Esperanto. Jorge Mendes admonished me: ‘When sales by the door, you keep a lot of people in your store, lady your bolso’. The one to Jorge my bolt, which I remember being a gay bolt, opened the door and the periodists hiccuped the first question: ‘Pepe, Pepe, ¿traes los 30 millones en ese bolso?’. I did not know what to say, I sent a little note on the floor and Jorge said: ‘Vamos, vamos, no hables’. The 30 million? What do you believe? No sabía hablar español. Entonces, sí, fue difícil ”.
La regañada que le dio Cannavaro
Well, now that he can say this, he has had many years and friends: passed with Cannavaro. In practice it is practically impossible, only trained and miraculous, because it is very observant. This is work and more work. So far, I’m on a plane to Austria and I’ve been sent by me. Lo pillé leienda una revista y, cuando me di cuente de que se había acabado y que el avion iba a aterrizar, me puse valiente y le dije: ‘Cannavaro, Cannavaro (en voz baja), ¿me pueden dar la revista?’. Y Cannavaro miró hacia atrás y me dijo: ‘¿Cannavaro? My name is Fabio ‘. Y me dio la espalda. No supe qué decir nie. Fueron segundos, tal vez minutos, pero eso paerie una eternidad, hasta que me dio la revista ”.
His debut with Real Madrid
“My first match was against the Athletic de Madrid. I came from a club that organized tactically, in that if the squad was sold by the lad Izquierdo, ten that were allied, if the squad was sold by the lad right, pressures of that manner, things así, basics.And what I found in Madrid was a chaos.In minute 30 the game was broken and we were lying in one against one and corrected to the other.I wanted Fabio and I said: ‘¡Fabio! ¡ Fabio! ¡Cobertura, cobertura! ‘. Y él me dice:’ No, no, aquí no se hace eso. Cada uno por su lado ‘. Y yo:’ ¿Es así? ¡Joder! ‘. Yo miraba y veía a the lateral arriba, the pivote defensive arriba. Y yo pensaba: ‘¿Qué? ¿50 metros a mis espaldas y estoy aqui par hacer uno contra uno?’. Luego pensé que tranquilo, que lo haría bien. Who plays in Real Madrid, at the moment he has to listen to the affirmative goal, because the 2-0 is not enough, he has to score four, five, six goals and only one goal the power stations and the gate ”.
Pepe’s father’s comment on Madrid
Casillas y el idioma
” Cuando llegué a Madrid, Iker me dijo: ‘Entonces, ¿ya hablas español?’. Y yo: ‘No, no’. ‘Pues mira, tienes que hablar’. One of us was late, when he flew to Porto and he stayed there, he also said: ‘So, do you know Portuguese?’. And dijo: ‘Ah, a poquito, a poquito’. Yo: ‘That’s not enough’. Iker is a great type (risas) ”.
The egos of the cloakroom
‘No era in easy vestuario. Alli, all his level selection players. There is no important title, no lonely titles. But there is a brutal pressure: if wins, the things of good, you quedas in the team and in the club; si no ganas te vas, otro jugador entra en tu lugar y listo. If you do not return, you will have other hopes that you will have to pay; as always debates are at a high level ”.
Portuguese in Madrid
” Mourinho won Real Madrid to win La Décima, because he was the only one to import. The club only wanted the Champions, the champion was secondary. Mourinho has a lot of illusions, because he has won the Champions League with Inter Milan in the Bernabeu, and he also has a lot of organization and we have three good years with him: we have a League, a Copa del Rey, but we can not win the Champions ”.
The day Pepe paid the salary of the Besiktas plant
Three Champions Champions with Madrid
” ¿Qué yo, a chico que dormía accompanied by my mother is 18 years old, podium ganar tres Champions (risas)? Mira, never imagined it, is cute. I felt like lying on the floor, but I never passed by the cave. But tampoco hy sido nunka a person who thinks in his future. I believe that even more images, more alive the present ”.
His relationship with Ancelotti
‘When Ancelotti’s company, I’ve been on vacation and I’m very happy. I’m disappointed, it’s speculated in the Spanish press with my situation. And I read Ancelotti and I was very honest: ‘Mira, Pepe, related to Sergio Ramos, related to Varane, who has a lot of quality, and is related to you. Ya te digo que no eres la primera option ‘. The respondent: ‘Is it okay, Mister, but what? Do you want me to go? ‘. And I say: ‘Nee, nee, nee, quiero que te quedes, pero también quiero que sepas que no eres mi primera option’. The day: ‘Accept. Do you want me to have the opportunity to relax in my place, even in terms of conditions? ¿Sin preferences? ‘. Ancelotti replied: ‘This is exactly what I hope to hear’. Entones, if this cavalry is honest in the future as it is now, yo me quedo and lucharé for any opportunity that presents itself to me. The final term is: ‘We will be champions’. Y lo fuimos ”.