João Virgínia explains leaving Benfica and returning to Portugal
Rafael Toucedo
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Without “ADN de Leão”, goalkeeper revealed the reason for leaving Benfica and joy for the return.
The podcast “ADN de Leão” was shown this Tuesday with goalkeeper João Virgínia as the protagonist. With the jersey number 31 and the interviewer Geirinhas with Peaky Blinders (English series), Virgínia recalled her passage through the country of Swaginia, where Majesty, where the trend and became the one who became her reference in goal.
“It was incredible myself Pulter, he knows me a lot. He was the most influential in terms of placement, knowing how to read the game… He’s calm, transmits security, has posture and presence”, he commented, revealing, later, that the training at the lions “is superior” to what he has experienced at Premier clubs such as Arsenal or Everton.
Virginia, who has only seven uses this season, guaranteed “to be motivated and waiting for an opportunity”. “If you’re not motivated I won’t be at 100%”, along with warning that you can still “play twenty years”.
Recalling her career, Virgínia spoke of her early days as a forward, the transition to goal at Ferreiras, in the Algarve, as “he was great at school and defended everything”. And the return to a departure from Benfica to Portugal:
“The Premier weighed in to go to England. On the other side [Benfica] goalkeeper, I thought it wasn’t well organized, I wasn’t very happy, I had the opportunity and I went. But I was very happy to return to Portugal. I was tired of the rain… that sometimes even causes depression.”