The Portuguese central recognizes that the only team that can stand up to the Barcelona
The Luso-Brazilian central Kepler Laveran Lima Ferreira "Pepe", said the Real Madrid for his greatness and the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho as "the best" cause "jealousies and frustrations" in many sectors.
"We are in the best club in the world. After Christian, as a player, Mourinho as coach, are the best. All this provokes envy and frustrations in many sectors, "said Pepe, in an interview published in the online edition of the newspaper Luso" Public ".
The central, 28, said the Real Madrid's "Today" team "more likely" to come face to face Barcelona and ensured that Catalan rivals are not invincible.
In the last Spanish Supercopa, won by the Catalans, were "significantly higher," said Pepe, who felt more weight to the quality white club. "I think I contributed to that," said the three of Real Madrid, whose biggest moon in the Spanish league was the aggression in the middle of Casquero Getafe in April 2009.
"To this day I can not understand (the reason for the aggression). In the field, Casquero called me those things that we heard many times and we do not like, especially about family. At some point it exploded and came," recalled .
The Luso International complained that its image injured since then come out and defended his style of play. "Today, I am a player who commits one or two fouls per game. And almost always very normal faults. Still, the officials threaten me with yellow cards. It's unfortunate, but I have to learn to live with that," he argued.
On the controversial abandonment of the Portugal team of fellow team-Ricardo Carvalho who was angry to see that would be Pepe's own substitute, ensured that the central Barca's collective talent himself Argentine Leonel Messi. "I think what eventually outweigh the collective Barca. For some reason, Messi fails to prove it's worth when he plays for the Argentina national team," he said.
In his fourth season at Real Madrid where he arrived from Porto in exchange for 30 million euros, Brazilian-born defender claimed his performance and commented that "no longer speaks of" the famous curse of the central Barca's collective talent himself Argentine Leonel Messi. "I think what eventually outweigh the collective Barca. For some reason, Messi fails to prove it's worth when he plays for the Argentina national team," he said.
In his fourth season at Real Madrid where he arrived from Porto in exchange for 30 million euros, Brazilian-born defender claimed his performance and commented that "no longer speaks of" the famous curse of the central There is no problem between the two and wanted to return to the national Carvalho.