Samuel Umtiti, in the presentation like player of the FC Barcelona

His dream fulfilled in the FC Barcelona

Umtiti: "Have not arrived to the Barça would have been a failure"

Published:31/12/2016 - 16:06h

Updated:31/12/2016 - 16:20h

The defender of the FC Barcelona Samuel Umtiti, considered the best young defender in his country, spoke in an interview of the dream that is to play in the team culé. Umtiti Recognised that it is enamoured of the game of the Barça for many years

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Samuel Umtiti always has affirmed that play in the FC Barcelona was his dream. Like this it said it the day that arrived, like this had said it to him to his friends from his youth and like this fulfilled , doing him really happy. That is the state in which, confesses, raises each day since it signed by the club blaugrana. 

"Sometimes, when I go me to sleep, think in all what has happened me this last year and am happy. When I wake up me in the morning I do it with a smile..., I am in the Barça!", it sustains the defender in an interview conceded for the Magazine Barça.

And it is that "Big Sam" considers that the style of the team blaugrana, to the that has adapted to perfection from his first days, is the best possible inside the balompié. "The style of game of the Barça always has liked me, of small fixed me a lot in this team. It is the idea that likes me of the football, dominate the possession and not throwing long balloons", explained the considered in central France with more future of the country Frenchman.

Have not played in the Barça would have been a failure for Umtiti

But when we speak of Samuel are doing it of a very ambitious man, as much as to dream in his day that could arrive to the best team of the world. Although be ambitious does not want to say that it was a ghost, as like this it shows: "The Spanish football is one that likes me, and the game of the Barça in particular. No it said it to him a lot to my friends because it thought that would think that I am arrogant, or even that was crazy, but come here was a thing in which it always thought. If it had not arrived to the Barça, for my would have been a failure".

"When it arrived the moment could not it believe. I was two hours with my representatives asking us if it was truth. I do not am used to to thrill me in excess neither accustom to cry, but this day had tears", explained on his arrival to Can Barça.

"Come to the Barça was what wanted to, and think to remain me"

One of his worries was the recibimiento inside the changing room of the Barça, something that was easier of the expected. "It was a thing that concerned me. Arrive to a new club was something new for my, and less in a changing room with players like Messi, Iniesta, Suárez and Neymar. But the true is that all was very. It is impressive to see as they are, very humble, in spite of all the titles achieved", concretised.

"I expect to be a lot of years here. Come to the Barça was what wanted to, and think to remain me. If tomorrow they called me to sign an agreement until 2030, would go to sign it without looking me the small letter", concluded.

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