🎙️| Frenkie de Jong spoke in an interview with El Periodico
🗣️: "Barça is the club of my dreams and I want to be here all my life. I didn't want to leave suddenly"
🗣️: "Barça is the club of my dreams and I want to be here all my life. I didn't want to leave suddenly"
🎙️| De Jong on being transferable last year to becoming captain
🗣️: “The situation is what it is. Economically, Barça is not at it’s best moment. They could get a lot of money for me. Maybe the club thought it was good to sell me and have that money. But I didn't want to leave.”
🗣️: “The situation is what it is. Economically, Barça is not at it’s best moment. They could get a lot of money for me. Maybe the club thought it was good to sell me and have that money. But I didn't want to leave.”
🎙️| De Jong continues..
🗣️: “It was always clear to me. I did not want to leave. That's why I was very calm. I had already decided.”
🗣️: “It was always clear to me. I did not want to leave. That's why I was very calm. I had already decided.”
🎙️| De Jong on main reason to continue at Barca
🗣️: “I always wanted to be at Barça. In these first years we had not won the League, nor gone far in the Champions League. He had only won one Copa del Rey. To succeed at Barça I had a lot left.”
🗣️: “I always wanted to be at Barça. In these first years we had not won the League, nor gone far in the Champions League. He had only won one Copa del Rey. To succeed at Barça I had a lot left.”
🎙️| De Jong continues..
🗣️: “I also saw that the team was improving that summer. High level players arrived. And that's why I wanted to continue. It is the club of my dreams and I want to be here all my life. I didn't want to leave suddenly.”
🗣️: “I also saw that the team was improving that summer. High level players arrived. And that's why I wanted to continue. It is the club of my dreams and I want to be here all my life. I didn't want to leave suddenly.”
🎙️| Frenkie de Jong on his fifth season at Barca
🗣️: "I don't think I'm much different as a person. As a player, I don't think so either. Maybe there are some things that are changing, and it is normal when you have years of experience."
🗣️: "I don't think I'm much different as a person. As a player, I don't think so either. Maybe there are some things that are changing, and it is normal when you have years of experience."
🎙️| De Jong continues..
🗣️: "Because you have to improve in life, as a person and as a footballer. I feel good, comfortable, happy. I have won my first League now, which was important to me. And now I want to continue winning things with Barça."
🗣️: "Because you have to improve in life, as a person and as a footballer. I feel good, comfortable, happy. I have won my first League now, which was important to me. And now I want to continue winning things with Barça."
🎙️| De Jong on being one of the captains
🗣️: "It is a great honor to be among the captains. It was always a dream to play here. And being among the captains when you come from the Netherlands, not being from Spain or Catalonia, is a great honor."
🗣️: "It is a great honor to be among the captains. It was always a dream to play here. And being among the captains when you come from the Netherlands, not being from Spain or Catalonia, is a great honor."
🎙️| De Jong on already being a leader
🗣️: "It is that I believe that as a person I have not changed much. It is not that now I am going to scream all the time in the locker room. I'm not like that. I can set a good example, warn people about things, or help them."
🗣️: "It is that I believe that as a person I have not changed much. It is not that now I am going to scream all the time in the locker room. I'm not like that. I can set a good example, warn people about things, or help them."
🎙️| De Jong on how the love for Barca came ?
🗣️: "My father is a huge Cruyff fan, also on vacation we always went to the Costa Brava, even to the Camp Nou to see a friendly match. We did the Tour in the Museum. Holland and Barcelona always had a special connection."
🗣️: "My father is a huge Cruyff fan, also on vacation we always went to the Costa Brava, even to the Camp Nou to see a friendly match. We did the Tour in the Museum. Holland and Barcelona always had a special connection."
🎙️| De Jong continues..
🗣️: "Many people say that I have been from Barça since I were little, If it is true, the club outside the Netherlands has always been Barça."
🗣️: "Many people say that I have been from Barça since I were little, If it is true, the club outside the Netherlands has always been Barça."
🎙️| De Jong on being self-critical
🗣️: "Yes, I've always been like that. It is the way of being and the education that I have. That when there is something wrong, you have to look at yourself first. And I think it also helps me to improve things."
🗣️: "Yes, I've always been like that. It is the way of being and the education that I have. That when there is something wrong, you have to look at yourself first. And I think it also helps me to improve things."
🎙️| De Jong on was his last season the best (but scored four goals and gave two assists)?
🗣️: "Goals and assists depend on your role in the team. And I think that right now, when I'm playing in the base midfield, it's not my role to score 15 goals and give 20 assists."
🗣️: "Goals and assists depend on your role in the team. And I think that right now, when I'm playing in the base midfield, it's not my role to score 15 goals and give 20 assists."
🎙️| De Jong continues..
🗣️: "But it is true that I can give more assists and also score more goals. But it cannot be said that I have played well or badly depending on whether I score or give a goal pass."
🗣️: "But it is true that I can give more assists and also score more goals. But it cannot be said that I have played well or badly depending on whether I score or give a goal pass."
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