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I remember the first day getting to Hoffenheim. Minus 20! The weather was different; the food was different. It was cold, and I found it difficult, but I am not someone who gives up.
Roberto Firmino
Food
Day
Remember
Weather
First
Difficult
Cold
Minus
Someone
Gives
Am
Up
Getting
Different
Who
Found
Being shy has never held me back.
Roberto Firmino
Me
Back
Never
Being
Held
Shy
I'm not used to doing press conferences, and I don't like giving interviews.
Roberto Firmino
Giving
Interviews
Press
Like
Doing
Conferences
Used
I don't like to lose.
Roberto Firmino
Lose
Like
My family mean a lot to me, but I guess that's like it is with every other player.
Roberto Firmino
Family
Me
Every
Other
Guess
Like
Lot
Mean
Player
My parents gave up things for me when I was growing up.
Roberto Firmino
Me
Parents
Gave
Up
Growing
Growing Up
Things
We lived in a tough neighbourhood where there were gangs, and although my mum made sure I studied at school, they also allowed me to follow my dream to play football.
Roberto Firmino
Me
School
Made
Tough
Neighbourhood
Dream
Follow
Studied
Allowed
Football
Also
Sure
Although
Were
Where
Gangs
Lived
Mum
Play
Play Football
I love Liverpool - it's a great city to live in.
Roberto Firmino
Love
Great
Live
Great City
City
Liverpool
I really enjoyed my time in Germany but didn't actually win anything.
Roberto Firmino
Time
Win
My Time
Germany
Anything
Really
Actually
Enjoyed
It's strange, but I remember just before I moved to Hoffenheim that I had a dream about playing in England.
Roberto Firmino
Strange
Remember
Before
Dream
About
Had
Just
Moved
England
Playing
A lot of Brazilians are very superstitious, especially footballers. I'm the same. I always step on to the pitch with my right foot first.
Roberto Firmino
First
Superstitious
Foot
Step
Footballers
Always
Lot
Very
Same
Pitch
Right
Without a doubt, German football, where I've played for nearly five years, is very similar - maybe just a little less tough than English football.
Roberto Firmino
Tough
Doubt
Similar
Football
Without
Years
German
Very
Five
Than
Maybe
Just
Where
Little
Less
English
English Football
Nearly
Played
I was only 19 when I came to Hoffenheim. Everything was new to me - a strange country, a foreign language. That was not easy at the beginning. Europe was a big adventure to me, and of course I had my doubts.
Roberto Firmino
Me
Strange
Language
Country
Big
Beginning
Everything
Easy
Only
Had
Adventure
New
Course
Foreign
Foreign Language
Came
Doubts
Europe
By working hard at Hoffenheim, I made it into the Selecao.
Roberto Firmino
Made
Working
Working Hard
Hard
I will keep my time at Hoffenheim and the people I met here in my heart forever.
Roberto Firmino
Time
Heart
People
Will
Met
My Time
Forever
Keep
Here
I was adapted to European football after playing in Germany for three years, but English football is very different to the Bundesliga.
Roberto Firmino
Three
Football
Years
Very
Germany
Different
After
English
European
English Football
Playing
Adapted
Professor Tite has played a big role in the Selecao's ascent. He's a brilliant coach, with a unique way of working, but he's also a marvellous person. He makes everyone feel at ease.
Roberto Firmino
Brilliant
Big
Everyone
Way
Ease
Marvellous
He
Feel
Also
Makes
Role
Person
Ascent
Coach
Working
Unique
Professor
Played
Coutinho is a friend and also a great player. He's got incredible passing ability; he knows how to put attackers in on goal.
Roberto Firmino
Great
Incredible
Ability
Great Player
He
Put
Also
Knows
Got
How
Passing
Goal
Friend
Player
I think the Brazil system is similar to the one we use at Liverpool, with lots of movement, players open out wide, and quality midfielders who join the attack and score goals.
Roberto Firmino
Quality
Goals
Brazil
Think
System
Out
Similar
Attack
Join
Open
Score
Lots
Movement
Use
Who
Liverpool
Wide
Players
It's hard to be as good as Ronaldinho and Ronaldo were, but we're going to do our best, both myself and Philippe Coutinho, to get close to them and be the best players we can be for the Brazilian national team.
Roberto Firmino
Best
Myself
Good
National
Our
Both
Were
Close
Get
National Team
Going
Brazilian
Them
Hard
Team
Players
The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.
Roberto Unger
Rain
People
Destruction
Result
Opportunities
Trees
Further
Economic
Results
Economic Opportunities
Practical
Real
Amazon
Encourage
Forest
Just
Them
Create
Disorganized
Activities
Million
Million People
Set
One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.
Roberto Unger
Free
Nation
State
Striking
Must
Remain
Features
Roam
Goods
Globalisation
Within
Been
Imprisoned
Labour
Established
Form
Capital
Should
Premise
Even
Now
Based
The Premier League is one of the best in the world, without a doubt. The stadiums are always full, and the atmosphere is incredible, but not every footballer is able to play in England. The character can be difficult for a foreigner.
Robinho
Best
Character
World
Doubt
Difficult
Every
Incredible
Able
Atmosphere
Footballer
League
Without
Always
Foreigner
Stadiums
Full
Premier
Premier League
England
Play
Milan, I was surrounded by great players; it wasn't the same at City.
Robinho
Great
City
Surrounded
Same
Milan
Players
The family is the foundation of everything.
Robinho
Family
Everything
Foundation
Unfortunately, my departure from Madrid was not pleasant, but those things are in the past, and I have learned a lot and matured.
Robinho
Past
Pleasant
Those
Madrid
Learned
Lot
Matured
Departure
In The Past
Unfortunately
Things
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