Wolverhampton Wanderers left-back Rúben Vinagre has a two-page interview featured in Saturday’s edition of A Bola.
The newspaper’s story is mostly about the Euro U-19 title, won by the Portuguese national team last weekend. But there was enough room to talk about the year he’s spent at Wolves.
Vinagre talked a lot about being the youngest player in Wolverhampton’s ‘Portuguese army’, as A Bola calls it.
“I’m the youngest and I feel like I’m their brother, because they’re always joking with me,” he tells A Bola. “Their presence facilitated my adaptation greatly. I was super well received by everyone.”
“We are often together out of training and that’s cool, especially because I live alone. From time to time I have my parents, my girlfriend and my friends who are very important to me.”Regarding the arrival of Rui Patrício to the club, Vinagre said: “For Wolverhampton I think it’s a great signing because Rui is one of the best goalkeepers in the world. Regarding the departure of Sporting, there is not much that can be said.
“He, better than anyone, knows the reasons for having rescinded. It’s fantastic, he’s the goalkeeper of our national team and I admire him a lot. There’s going to be a lot of us here at Wolves.”
To end the interview, A Bola asked Vinagre which game he would return if he had the chance.
He picked one he played for Portugal and another for Wolves: “I love playing finals because I like the pressure. I choose the final against Italy. It did not bother me to be running for over 120 minutes. And I enjoyed playing against Man City for Wolverhampton.”
