Jorginho: 🗣️🎙️
"You know when I was five, my dad had asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said, “A football player.” He said, “But being a football player is not just the stuff you see on TV. They will hurt you, they will steal from you, they will make you cry. You will want to go home. You will want to give up. Now, what do you want to be when you grow up?”
I said, “A footballer player.”
I was prepared to do anything. But a few weeks after the cleaning lady had quit, my mum came to visit me at the camp. She went to the bathroom. When she came back, she said, “Get your things. We’re going home.”
I said, “Mum, I’m not going.”
She said, “I know this is your dream. But my son is not going to live like this.”
I told her that if she forced me to go home, and I didn’t become a football player, I would blame her for the rest of my life.
She said, “No, wait … please don’t say that.”
Then she began to cry.
I said, “This is my chance. I don’t care what I have to suffer. I can eat the same food for 10 days. I can go to a dirty toilet. This is nothing!”
She just looked at me.
I said, “I’m serious.”
Then she left in tears.
That was one of the hardest moments of my life. You have to understand what this meant to her. She isn’t one of those mums who don’t get football. No, my friend. She’s the one who gave me all my talent. I know Dad gets angry when I say that, but, Dad, you know it’s true!! She’s from a family of footballers, and she plays to this day. When I was five, she would play ball with me on the beach near our house. We would just have fun, and if I made an error, she would say, “Don’t put your foot this way. Do it like this.”
Stay true to your dreams! 🔵💙🙌
‼️ Jorginho is the first Player in premier league to have 10 Consecutive goals in the competition come from penalty spot 😲😲
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