Number chosen when arriving to the FC Barcelona
Samuel Umtiti reveals the reason to carry the "23" with the Barça
Published:26/12/2016 - 12:45h
Updated:27/12/2016 - 10:07h
The defender of the FC Barcelona Samuel Umtiti arrived to the Barcelona club with the T-shirt number 23 under the arm. The defender repeated the same number that used in his previous team, the Olympique of Lyon. And the reason of this explains it to continuation
Some are knowing to Samuel Umtiti in the last weeks, to the desvelarse that is one of the players more cachondos of the changing room blaugrana. The French, however, is very discreet and reacio to the hour to show his private life through the social networks.
This yes, shares things that like him like the basketball. In fact, the central uses the number 23 in his T-shirt of the Barça by homage to all a star of this sport. Michael Jordan is the idol of "Big Sam", by what also when it was in the Olympique of Lyon employed this number.
However, when it goes with France the number chosen is the 22, perhaps by tradition from his first announcement. By what does to the basquet, in some occasions has hanged photos in his Twitter of the NBA and has supported to his compatriots in the American championship, as Rudy Boggert.
Umtiti, a discreet person that "survives" to the surroundings of the Barça
What left clear in an interview given for the newspaper "Sport" recently is that, unlike many of his mates, likes him be discreet and not sharing at all of his private life. "I am a very discreet person. It likes me speak of football in the social networks but no of what am doing in each moment of my private life. Besides, also I know that here, in a club like the FC Barcelona, the repercussion of all what say or do is very big", explained in this regard.
