Today the rest of the interview with Eder was published by La Gazzetta dello Sport.
Despite the last draw against Verona, will Fiorentina v Inter be a decisive match?
“Not decisive, but it can give us an extra boost. Remarkably. The important thing is to keep our balance, if you win or lose it is not 3 or 4 points behind that make the difference at this point of the season. So many points are still at stake, so many hopes, so many possibilities to overturn everything.”
Why should you believe in Champions League now?
“I see the Champions League as the crowning of a crazy dream: to get from Brazil to Italy, reaching the national team, then Inter and then the top of the club competitions, well, that would really be the absolute maximum. We must believe in the Champions because we work well in a group that welcomed me in a great way from the start, for the many games that are still left and because we have Mancini: he is a very optimistic coach, always sees things in a positive way.”
Someone like you, coming from Empoli and earning the national team and Inter you can’t do anything else but feel the same way. With a smile.
“I made the real change at Sampdoria, I will never forget to thank the club which I will meet in two weeks. Before arriving in Genoa I was a boy of 24 years who could arrive 10 minutes before training, who thought of nothing, in short, just a kid… And then, from there, I said enough, get yourself together, don’t throw away this great opportunity. And, from food to training up to everything else, I began to change my regime. Growing.”
How do you move from a participating and present president (Massimo Ferrero) to your current (Erick Thohir) who is more abroad than in Italy?
“It doesn’t change anything. Then you have to think about the fact that Thohir and I have already spoken three times: in the days when we were in talks he called me, pushing me, asked me to give my best and was pleased with my choice of coming to Inter. A person that is always positive.”
The characteristics of Eder: run a lot and score. But for now, at Inter, a lot of running and no goals.
“I’ll tell you two things, when it comes to scoring goals for the sake of scoring goals I don’t want to worry too much. The first: compared to a goal that might eventually bring you to nothing I prefer a great performance. I’m always that way, and the results will eventually arrive for the team. Take the example of Callejon at Napoli: for a while he scored no goals but he worked a lot and ran non-stop for the good of the team. Then he gave the ball to the giant Higuain and the goals came, and Napoli is at the top. In short if I do as Callejon and Icardi will score 30 goals, well, I’m in. ”
The second?
“Even at Sampdoria I arrived in January and until April I remained goalless. Then I got out of the slump in the end I scored the right ones, and we remained in Serie A after at one point being 12 points away from the play-off zone. In short, the objectives were achieved.”
Even Icardi was tempted by the Italian national team. You chose it.
“I knew you would ask me about the foreign players. I’ve heard it for 11 years, I was not the first and will not be the last. In many things I feel more Italian than Brazilian: when I go back to my country my friends say that I have an Italian accent, I once loved the beans but now if I have to choose I go to an Italian restaurant. My great-grandfather was from Nove, in the province of Vicenza: when we were in Brazil, my grandmother wanted us to only speak Italian at home and then away from home we could use Portuguese.”
Off topic: will you welcome Soriano with open arms in six months?
“They say so… but I don’t know: if he is signed, Inter will certainly make a big coup. Soriano is a modern midfielder, comprehensive, can play both offense and defense.”
To which coach do you owe the most?
“Iachini: I had him at Sampdoria and at Brescia, he taught me to stay in Italian football.”
When you faced Fiorentina with Sampdoria it didn’t go very well (like Inter).
“We lost 3-0 and they really impressed me. It’s a team that has identity, dribbles well, which is proving so many fine qualities.”
Trivial, but always good question: which player would you take from Viola?
“Can I pick two? Ilicic and Borja Valero.”
And as Handanovic says, “when you can’t win it’s best not to lose.”
“Indisputable: he is right. It is always that way, and as a mindset it is also good for the trip to Florence. I repeat: everything depends only on us.”
Source: fcinternews.it
