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?

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,

when… when my friends would take me on the train, so…

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.

And do you look at those photos in your gallery very often? Have you seen them these days, for example?

Yes, a lot, a lot, at night. And if I send them, they send me photos and... and we really enjoy those moments.

And what does that mean to you? A feeling of being good with yourself? An extra motivation too?

Yes, a motivation, I mean... I have to give it my all, that's for sure, it makes...

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?

I want to win it and... I was going to do my best to do it.