# From the classroom to the World Cup: a footballer's motivation

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2072076562782937123
- Source account: [@ellarguero](https://x.com/ellarguero)
- Source language: Galician
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:08
- Published: 2026-07-01
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5MBwIMc7ixos/en/from-the-classroom-to-the-world-cup-a-footballer-s-motivation
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5MBwIMc7ixos/gl/da-aula-ao-mundial-lembranzas-e-motivaci%C3%B3n-dun-futbolista.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5MBwIMc7ixos/en/from-the-classroom-to-the-world-cup-a-footballer-s-motivation) You look back and say, 'Jeez, look, I don't know if you're aware that at 16 in the Euros, at 18 in the World Cup,' is that easy for you to process?

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5MBwIMc7ixos/en/from-the-classroom-to-the-world-cup-a-footballer-s-motivation?t=8) No, it's not easy. Always… I think it's typical that at night people get nostalgic, so I look at my photo gallery and see photos with my mother going to training, when I played at La Torreta, with my father, with my friends,

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5MBwIMc7ixos/en/from-the-classroom-to-the-world-cup-a-footballer-s-motivation?t=22) when… when my friends would take me on the train, so…

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5MBwIMc7ixos/en/from-the-classroom-to-the-world-cup-a-footballer-s-motivation?t=25) There I have all my family, my mother, my father, my grandmother, my cousin Moja, my friend Soja, everyone, everyone has helped me a lot and that's why I share it with everyone, now that I'm here.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5MBwIMc7ixos/en/from-the-classroom-to-the-world-cup-a-footballer-s-motivation?t=35) And do you look at those photos in your gallery very often? Have you seen them these days, for example?

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5MBwIMc7ixos/en/from-the-classroom-to-the-world-cup-a-footballer-s-motivation?t=40) Yes, a lot, a lot, at night. And if I send them, they send me photos and... and we really enjoy those moments.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5MBwIMc7ixos/en/from-the-classroom-to-the-world-cup-a-footballer-s-motivation?t=47) And what does that mean to you? A feeling of being good with yourself? An extra motivation too?

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5MBwIMc7ixos/en/from-the-classroom-to-the-world-cup-a-footballer-s-motivation?t=53) Yes, a motivation, I mean... I have to give it my all, that's for sure, it makes...

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5MBwIMc7ixos/en/from-the-classroom-to-the-world-cup-a-footballer-s-motivation?t=57) Like I said, in the previous World Cup, I saw a photo showing that during the previous World Cup I was in class and me with the iPad watching the Spain vs. Costa Rica match, so, how am I not going to give it my all?

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/5MBwIMc7ixos/en/from-the-classroom-to-the-world-cup-a-footballer-s-motivation?t=65) I want to win it and... I was going to do my best to do it.