“When I was your age, I played soccer, but I wasn’t ‘bravo’ at playing soccer, and where I come from, they call you ‘pata dura,’ ‘stiff leg.’ I was a‘pata dura’ and that’s why I usually was the goalie, so I wouldn’t have to move around.”
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