Dani Alves: "When we beat Barcelona in the Champions League, I walked up to my brother Neymar and gave him a hug."
Alves: "Neymar was crying, and a part of me felt like crying, too.”
Alves: “Was I disrespected by the board of directors before I left the club last summer? Absolutely."
Alves: "That is simply how I feel, and you can never tell me any different."
Alves: "But you cannot play for a club for eight years, and achieve everything that we did, and not have that club in your heart forever."
Alves: "Managers, players and board members come and go. But Barça will never go away."
Alves: “Before I went to Juventus, I made a final promise to the board at Barcelona. I said: ‘You’re going to miss me.’"
Alves: "I didn’t mean as a player. Barça have plenty of incredible players. What I meant was that they were going to miss my spirit."
Alves: "They were going to miss the care I had for dressing room. They were going to miss the blood I spilled every time I put on the shirt”
Alves: "I remember during one training session, Messi was doing things with the ball at his feet that defied logic."
Alves: "Of course, that is what he did every day. Only this time, something was different."
Alves: "Now, I need to remind you, this was an extremely intense training session. We were not messing around."
Alves: "Messi was dribbling through the defence and finishing like a killer."
Alves: "And then as Messi is running past me, I look down at his boots, and I'm thinking to myself, Is this a joke?"
Alves: "Messi comes running past again, and now I'm sure what I'm seeing. His damn boots were untied. Both of them."
Alves: "Messi comes running past again, and I think, No, it's impossible."
Alves: "This guy was playing against best defenders in world, just floating around pitch, and he was acting like it's a Sunday in the park."
Alves: "That was the moment when I knew that I was never going to play with someone like Messi ever again in my life."
Alves: "Three months ago, when Barcelona made their incredible comeback against PSG in the CL, I was watching every moment from my couch."
Alves: "You might think from reading the newspapers that I was hoping my old club would lose."
Alves: "But when my brother Neymar scored that beautiful free kick? I jumped up from my couch and was screaming at the television."
Alves:"And when Sergi Roberto performed a miracle in the 95th minute? Like every other Barca fan in the world, I was going absolutely crazy"
Alves: "Because the truth is that Barcelona is still in my blood."
Alves: "When I had to play against Barca in the next round, it was a very weird feeling."
Alves: "Especially in the second leg at the Camp Nou, I felt like I was home again."
Alves: "Right before the match started, I went over to the Barca bench to say hello to my old friends."
Alves: "And they were saying, "Dani, come sit with us! We saved your seat!"
Alves: "I went sprinting back to the field, and I could hear my old manager, Luis Enrique, laughing his ass off."
Alves: "Pep would tell you exactly how everything was going to happen in a match before it even happened."
Alves: "Against RM in 2010, when we won 5-0? Pep told us before the match, "Today, you're going to play like the football is a ball of fire"
Alves: "It never stays at your feet. Not even half second. If you do that, there will be no time for them to pressure us.We will win easily"
Alves: "The funniest thing was if we came in at half-time and the game wasn't going well. Pep would sit down and rub his forehead."
Alves: "You know how he rubs his head? You've seen it, right? Like he's massaging his brain, searching for the genius to come to him."
Alves: "He would do this right in front of us in the dressing room. Then, like magic, it would come to him. Bang!"
Alves: "Pep was the first coach in my life who showed me how to play without the ball."
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