Speaking to “Polaris Sports”, in the first of the six episodes in which he tells many stories that he experienced throughout his career, the player thanks his mother for the fact that he never gave up playing football. The white and blue defender ensures that he is very close to doing just that

Pepe is a pillar of the FC Porto team led by Sérgio Conceição. At 38 years old, the central defender has a nearly captivating place in eleven dragons and is impressive with his displays and physique.

Speaking to “Polaris Sports”, in the first of the six episodes in which he tells many stories that he experienced throughout his career, the player thanks his mother for the fact that he never gave up playing football. The Porto defender ensures that he was very close to doing so, due to the many injustices he witnessed in training, specifically in Brazil, when he was 12 or 13 years old.

“I started to understand what was around me and didn’t like some of the injustice I saw. My friends came from the neighborhood to be able to play and didn’t play. The coach used other people because parents helped Nadi, I paid for the bus that was going to the country on playing days,” she began to reveal, before she She explains the important role of her mother, Roslyn.

“I realized that the best of them weren’t on the field, until I got tired and told my mother that I didn’t want to play football anymore, that I was just going to study. And my mother said, ‘How?'” currently? No, no, no… You won’t have time to give up. You take charge, you have to go all the way. So, tomorrow morning you have to be there practicing like you always do,” he continued.

“I cried and said I can’t, that there is too much injustice. She told me that life is like this, I must always fight, and no one will give me anything. She also told me to talk to friends and they say – they had to keep working. I’m glad I heard My mother. Today I can say that I am very happy for the choice I made, because I became the player that I am today and also helped Portugal and the clubs I played with my work,” concluded Pepe.