“It is a good step to say that once in our lives we played against the best team in the world and we beat them. We competed with Barcelona, but for now we did it in a different way. We played morelong balls because we are still not ready to keep the ball and play like they do. They have been playing that way for 25 years. For us, it is three or four months we have been trying to play in adifferent style.”

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