Good vibes are the ‘Tigrinho’ trademark. Vitor Roque carries a smile as his flag and happiness as a way of life, but he admits that at FC Barcelona he lost a joy that, although Real Betis has returned it, he still can’t declare that he is happy. Not because of the welcome from the green-and-white family, which he admits could not have been more satisfactory, but because another of his identifying features is his lack of personality. He has four goals in his first 12 games with the thirteen bars, but they seem few to him. He recognizes that he must calm his haste, but he is convinced that the final figure will be very high. Regarding Barça’s plans, and the news of a possible return before the two-year loan he has signed, he turns a deaf ear. Just think green.
The “anxiety to score goals” grips ‘Tiginho’
“Four goals… not bad. We are there, but I’m still not happy, I’m always hungry for a goal and I hope I can score many more goals. “I have a figure, but I don’t want to say it,” said the 19-year-old striker in an interview with ‘El Pelotazo’ Channel On Radio. “It’s a problem that I have, that I want to achieve things too soon. Sometimes I am a little anxious about scoring goals and helping my teammates.. I want to help Betis and sometimes I want to do things too quickly; But you have to give it time, I have to be calm, be mentally calm and sure that things will turn out well. “I work a lot to improve my finishing in training,” he added. Another pending debt is the derby: “It was a very bad game, but there is still another one”.
Vitor Roque: “I don’t read anything about what happens at Barça, I only think about Betis”
“I try to isolate myself from everything. These things don’t confuse me“said Vitor Roque, who admitted to putting himself in the hands of psychologists to help him live with excessive media exposure. “I don’t read many things about Barcelona. I am focused on Betis, I am happy here and I don’t think about what they say there. “The information always comes by itself,” he said with a laugh, resigning himself to the inevitable rumors.
“I am young but I have had a bad time in football, although I have always taken it as a learning experience. At Barça I learned a lot, the good things and the bad.“But now I’m very happy at Betis.” “It’s difficult to get there after they paid so much for me and, if people don’t help you, it’s even more difficult,” he said with an indirect message to Xavi, followed by another gratitude to the culé club for allowing him to play where he wanted.
He rejected Sporting CP to “win a title with Betis”
Sporting Clube Portugal bid hard for the signing of Vitor Roque. “I was always close to Betis. They both arrived together, but the best project for my life and for my family was Betis. I didn’t have any doubts. “I wanted to continue in the Spanish LaLiga and Barça did well there, because they gave me an opportunity to leave.”
“From the first time I came with Barça I saw that the atmosphere in this stadium is incredible. People are very passionate, they whistle, they press… For us it is a help and for the rival it is always difficult. The fans support me a lotthey tell me that they are in my boat,” added the Brazilian forward, who dreams of winning silver: “I hope I can win a title with Betis”.
Natan, Bartra, Pellegrini and Joaquín convinced Vitor Roque
“I spoke with Natan and he told me that in a week I would feel like family.. And it has been like that. The help of my classmates has helped me a lot, all the boys have received me well. I also spoke before coming with Bartra and Pellegriniwho seems serious but then he is like a father to all of us.” “Pellegrini tells me to be calm, that the goals are going to come,” he explained, revealing several anecdotes with Joaquín Sánchez: “He told me a jokea joke that I can’t tell here (laughs). I already knew Betis and I was very happy to be able to come. I asked Joaquín for a photo with my father, who was a player and they called him ‘Tigrao’. That’s why I am ‘Tigrinho’.”
“I am always very happy, I try to always be happy in life, because that way it is easier for things to turn out well for you. Furthermore, I am very happy with what I am experiencing at Betis and very grateful to those who help me feel like that. The people of Seville are also very happy, they remind me of Brazil and that makes it easier for me,” he stressed, in a message that he repeated numerous times during the interview. Full positive mentality… although he needs a few more goals for happiness to finally be complete.
