Rodney: “James has told me he wants to play in Brazil one day”

THE Rodney spoke on the Charla Podcast and mentioned his former teammate among other things James Rodriguez. In particular, he revealed that the Colombian ace wants to compete in Brazil at some point.

In addition, the 31-year-old also spoke about the coach he had at Flamengo, George Jesus.

“James only wants to speak Portuguese. He doesn’t want me to speak Spanish with him. I was forced at Flamengo to speak Spanish with some players so they understood everything. But Hames only wants Portuguese.

It would suit Rio. We have spoken and he has told me that he wants to play in Brazil one day. He has Brazilian friends too. I have explained to him that it is nice here in Brazil, football is different. I don’t know what he will decide about his life. We have talked, but not about them.”

For George Jesus who had a coach at Flamenco stated: “It has a different method, it’s different in every way. In training there was no fun, it was strong and intense. I thought I was fast and that I was getting to the balls in time. In one of his first training sessions, I marked the striker at a distance, confident that he would get where I thought, and immediately he blew the whistle, stopped everything. I don’t know how to imitate the Portuguese accent, but it was like this (raises his hands to his forehead), he said: ”Man, me, at the age of 70 (s.s.: on 7/24 he’ll be 69), I’m playing in your position. Are you walking?” He was swearing at everyone and I thought we’re going to have problems with this old man.”