An Interview With Rafael And Fabio


A student newspaper, Student Direct, have recently interviewed Manchester United youngsters Rafael and Fabio Da Silva which has given us a little bit of insight into the world of the Da Silva twins.
"My brother [Fabio] is far too serious," Rafael said. "He's always worrying about things that are going to happen. Things that he shouldn't worry about. I don't.
"But professionally, he is skillful. A killer. I mean he scores loads of goals. If he is near the area and the ball falls to him, he will score a goal."
Rafael revealed that at home they play computer games and in their bathroom their toothbrushes can only be told apart because of their names written in felt tip on them.

Recently one of Manchester City's Brazilians Robinho was pictured on a bus and this is what Rafael said about it:
"Brazilians are like that," said Rafael,
"You want to go there? Get a bus. Let's go. I doubt people would go over to him. They wouldn't believe it was him.
"English footballers wouldn't do that, but we would."It is strange to get used to a country where footballers earn so much, because we remember how things used to be.
"Our lives totally changed. But we're not wild. We like to stay at home. We train and have two English lessons a week and we don't spend much either."
"I like to buy clothes. All footballers can walk around like normal. The problem is when they don't go to places because they think there'll be loads of people.

"Here in England people are really respectful, sometimes they come over and ask for a photo, but that's it."
It hasn't always been fantastic for the twins, they have been getting homesick but that is fair enough:
"We miss everything about Brazil," said Fabio. "The heat, the sun, the culture, everyone chatting to everyone, going to our friends' houses, playing football and volleyball in the sand. You can't really do that here.
"We chat to Lucas [Liverpool player]and Elano [Man City player], but not much. We're good friends with the Portuguese players. We had a barbeque at our house and at Nani's house as well.
"But we don't really go out much, we prefer to stay at home. We've received a lot of support from the club since we arrived, particularly from Carlos Queiroz, Cristiano Ronaldo and Senor Alex himself."
Their thoughts on the food: "We prefer Brazilian food to English food, although I do love chips" said Rafael.

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