Rivaldo wants to return to the Barça

Rivaldo, Barcelona legend and Betfair ambassador, has confessed that Among his plans for the future is to return to the Barça club one day to help the Catalan team in what he can be useful for. Despite this, and despite the proximity of the Barça presidential elections, Rivaldo also confesses that he will not take the step of contacting any candidate or the club. Prefer, admit, no “want to force the situation”.

“It has been in my head for a long time to come back one day, because at Barcelona I have been very, very happy. I want to help the team in its recovery with that possible return. So yes, it is no secret that I am waiting for that possibility because there I succeeded. I wrote a beautiful story in Barcelona “, asserts a Rivaldo who, despite everything, and despite that desire, has not contacted any presidential candidate.

“The club is going through a difficult, complicated time. Of course I am aware of the evolution of the elections that have been called for early 2021, because I wish the best and that there is a rapid improvement”the Betfair ambassador began to explain.

“But I don't want to force a situation like this by offering myself to the club without any prior conversation or anything. I'm not interested in a fast lap, I'm in no rush, but I don't deny that I will always listen to any proposal you have.”Rivaldo added.

The 1999 Ballon d'Or would be willing to return without, in addition, proposing a specific function. “Any role in which I could help would be welcome, the important thing is to support the club and make it continue to grow, even if it is off the pitch now. Any player who has had a good period in a team would love to come back sometime even though be to do other things, “insisted the Betfair ambassador.

Rivaldo confesses his “perfect marriage” at Barcelona

From those years in which Rivaldo played and won titles with Barcelona, ​​the Brazilian has agreed to reveal the player with whom he got along during his LaLiga journey. “I had many, many teammates in Spain. I shared the field with great footballers, but I have zero doubts that my relationship with Kluivert was the best of all, the perfect marriage”, reveals the Brazilian.

“We had an impressive chemistry and a great capacity to understand each other. It is that sometimes, before we did something, we already knew what the other's response would be. Playing with him was magnificent because he was not a simple forward, but he also liked to distribute game, come from behind and end up assisting. He gave me a lot of goal passes … and well, I gave them to him too “Rivaldo joked. The Betfair ambassador says that “Kluivert's quick thinking” was something that made him special.

Djalminha, at the height of Zidane

Rivaldo also wanted to have a special mention for another player with whom he shared a dressing room in Spain and who later became an enemy: Djalminha. “I have commented on occasion that Zidane was a fearsome rival when I played in Spain, but he was not the only opponent that caused me such enormous respect. Djalminha is another”, evokes the ambassador of Betfair to place the Brazilian star of Deportivo de la Coruña at the level of the French of Real Madrid.

“Djalminha was tremendous, terrifying when he caught the ball. He had a lot of resources and skills … some dribbling … it was great. I enjoyed it when I had him with me in Coruña, but then I suffered as a rival in Barcelona”Rivaldo adds.

“We rivals respected Djalminha a lot, because you never knew what he was going to do with, what he was going to do to you. Such was his range of technical options. He was a star who had an excellent performance at Deportivo”concluded the Betfair ambassador.