“I was trying to hug Kanté naked as a joke and he said ‘No!'”

Diego Costa, now without a team, has never mince words when expressing himself. The Spanish-Brazilian striker is in Madrid and is looking for a team for next season. Meanwhile, during this break in his career, Costa gave a sincere interview to the YouTube channel Pilhado in which He criticized the facilities of Atlético de Madrid and those of Atlético MG and also recounted various anecdotes from his career.

“Atlético de Madrid is not a European level either. It’s all a lie. There (in Galo), in terms of structure, quality that it gives to the player, food, that’s top. 100%. They don’t have them at Atlético de Madrid, “he assured when they asked him about Atlético MG, of which he assured that the locker room was” shit. “European level? No, I’m not going to lie to you. The training locker room was shit and the academy is also dead,” he said of the Brazilian club.

The forward did forge a good relationship in the Atletico MG locker room and it was with Hulk, with whom he affirms that he spent the day joking. “He was and is the great star of the team. When I arrived he was the first to call me, talking about sleeping in the same room and I told him. “Hulk, you’re tempting with that ass over there”. We were very friends. It’s surreal,” she joked.

He also told of his special relationship with N’Golo Kanté, whom he assured is a very shy guy and used to be the target of some of his jokes. “At Chelsea, I used to try to hug Kanté jokingly naked. He’s shy. I would undress in the shower and say: “Kante, give me a hug!” and he very seriously told me “No, no, Diego”. Neither he nor he took off his underwear to take a shower, “ Coast assured.

Regarding his future, he assured that he would like to play for Flamengo, a club from which Vinicius joined Real Madrid and which he just compared to the whites. “In Flamengo? Any player would want to play there. It’s normal. Flamengo currently has two strikers, this is also true, the boys are very well served. So it’s a matter of logic, there’s nothing to talk about. There’s no reason to say i wouldn’t play if it happened. Why not? Even more so in Flamengo. If you do well there, you become a ‘Hollywood’ star. Let’s be honest,” Costa explained.

For him, fitting into this club relaunches the career of any player and compared him to his rival. “In Flamengo, when the team is doing well, everything favors. It’s like Real Madrid. When in doubt, go to Flamengo. The player likes the fans, the passion and feeling important. Flamengo gets it. In terms of size, Flamengo is the largest club in Brazil. Globally, it is much better known than any other Brazilian club. Having a big crowd also helps a lot, because Brazilians travel a lot,” he said.