Quotes from Davinson Sanchez

When I was 17 Sevilla came for me. At 18 Valencia, at 19 Villareal before Barcelona.

Barcelona wanted me to play for their B team. But I wanted to stay and win the Copa Libertadores and after that I didn't want to go down to a B team.

I started playing football when I was about six and it was sometimes hard to take the bus.

I would train every day after school from 3.30pm until 5.30pm and then I had to take three buses to get home, which would take at least two hours.

I'm not a guy on my phone reading about what supporters say about you. You can find many things there and you're not going to be happy!

You just have to be helpful and supportive and of course knowing that when I am recalled I'll get back at my best so the team is going to be there for me too.

You have to admit, yes you play football, but at the same time you must not forget you are a defender and have to fight. Put your face in where it hurts.

I set up my own foundation in my town in Colombia mainly for children too. To put them on a path. To show that if I can make something different of my life then they can too.

You're part of the team and you just need to accept that in the moment you need to work to get back in the team and be back involved with everybody and keep pushing yourself.

Harry Kane shows every season his importance. You can't say anything else but the fact that he's such an important player, a captain, a leader and a player who is pushing all the time, pushing the team to get higher.

When I started going to training my father used to take me. But that meant we had to buy two bus tickets and it was not easy for us, you know.

I'm someone who has come through situations where I saw hard things.

You have to be humble when somebody is, not blaming you, but having to say something isn't right or correct.

You have to tackle. Football is not composed of just taking the ball, or clearing the ball, properly, without touching the opponent? No. If you clear the ball and the opponent is in the middle of it... I feel sorry for the opponent!

I know friends who took what I call the easy way and some of them are now dead, or in jail, because they were involved in bad things.

There are many things to improve. I'm not nearly a perfect player, that's why I need to keep going.

I'm human. I have bad games, I have bad moments, but that's me. I cannot stay on the floor, knocked out. I have to keep going.

A final is about winning. You can't wait for the opponent to be better than you, or let them start to play their football.