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Angel Gomes on his England call up and building career overseas
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04/09/2024
Angel Gomes on his England call up and building career overseas
04/09/2024
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address you all as a squad when you first got together and what was his message to the group?
00:06
No it was he addressed us all as the squad and then obviously there was new faces that were in
00:14
the squad and just said obviously all the more experienced players will be able to
00:23
kind of help the new faces that have come in and from then it's been very very easy.
00:28
Can I just ask you're obviously close to Nanny and with family as well was there any pressure
00:35
on you to say look can you play you fancy playing for Portugal? It's funny you say that
00:42
I think from young you know my dream was always been to play for England you know my dad he played
00:48
for Portugal and growing up in all the age groups and my brother when he was younger as well
00:56
played in the younger age group for Portugal but whenever me and my dad spoke he's always wanted
01:02
me to go my own pathway with England and ever since I've been playing for England in the
01:10
younger academies the aim was always to to make it to the seniors.
01:16
Hi Angel you talk about the hardest point for you being when you left England
01:21
can you talk about whether that gave you a real motivation to really get to this level?
01:28
Yeah of course it gave me a big motivation because there was obviously players that I played with
01:35
that would go into their national team playing in France also and you know it gave me the
01:41
motivation to know that just because I'm playing in a different league I can still get to where
01:47
I want to get to you know but obviously it depends on me and the level that I play at
01:53
to be able to help me get there and you know like I said it the the consistency that you can bring
02:04
into your game will obviously help you in the long run and getting selected for your country.
02:09
Can I also just ask you do you get recognised in the street in England?
02:12
Yeah yeah sometimes yeah yeah I just think you've blossomed sort of overseas.
02:17
No of course yeah but I'll I'm very easy I'll go back home and I'll like I'm I'm just very
02:25
very chilled so whenever I get recognised that I don't try and hide or shy away from it.
02:31
And you're on Nanny he's your godfather yeah yeah and is is he actually close to you?
02:37
Yeah well we see a lot of him has he been an influence on your career?
02:44
Yeah he's been a big influence funny enough I spoke to him last last week he's someone that
02:50
you know he'll check up on me see how I'm doing and he was an influence on me growing up you know
02:56
obviously playing for the club that I played for and I was a fan of he was someone that I used to
03:04
watch and someone that used to give me joy but knowing him on a personal level was amazing because
03:11
I could see how he was not just on the pitch but off the pitch so.
03:16
Did he play with your dad?
03:20
No my dad's way older than him.
03:25
Hi just just a couple of points to clarify there was were you ever I mean you said you
03:30
always wanted to play for England and that was always going to be the case but
03:34
as the years went on were you ever directly approached by Portugal to go and join them?
03:41
Well recently my dad had conversations with people that he knows but nothing really
03:51
got advanced nothing was really advanced you know some of the players that my dad
03:57
played with when he was younger are high people in the Portuguese FA and he'd had conversations
04:04
with them but nothing was really advanced or went ahead so my my focus was was on England.
04:12
And just to follow up with something you said earlier about it's only naturally
04:17
the attention and recognition is less when you're playing in France rather than the Premier League
04:22
is this sort of your chance now to sort of showcase your talent to people who watch the
04:27
Premier League, Premier League clubs, Premier League managers to give yourself you know that wider
04:34
recognition? Yeah but it's not it's not necessarily my focus you know
04:40
my focus is just doing as well as possible and whatever comes of it comes of it you know
04:45
it's not to kind of put myself in a position to try and sound like an underdog or it's just
04:57
how it is really and you know like I said if I do well for my club and I can showcase myself
05:06
at a global level and that's what I try trying to do.
05:14
Lee said that last week that people enjoy watching you play he thinks people enjoy so
05:18
what do you think you can bring to the team what is your what you what you think people will see?
05:26
Someone that is brave I like to say I'm brave I like to to take risks I like to help the team in
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every phase of the pitch whether it's to help the team play out or whether it's to control the game
05:41
or whether it's to get the team as high with the ball as quick as possible you know it's something
05:49
that I'm comfortable comfortable doing really so I think that part of my game will be able to be shown.
06:01
I have a very short question have you had any approaches during your time in France to
06:05
come back to the family you go to in this football?
06:12
I have but you know I think I believe that everything will happen naturally and at its own
06:22
at its own time and you know I'm really I'm really chilled so you know if something
06:33
was to come up that would make sense then I always say like you never know in football that's all I
06:40
say. Can you tell us which clubs they were?
06:51
Hi Angel you said that you understand that recognition was probably going to be less
06:56
over here while you were in in France and in Portugal than if you'd been in the Premier League
07:00
did that ever weigh on your mind at all while you were over there because you knew how well
07:05
you were playing and you've said how keen you were to play for England at senior level?
07:08
No not necessarily because like I said there was players that I was playing with that was
07:12
getting called up for the national team and they was getting called up for big national like you
07:19
know so if if they can't there was no reason for myself not to be able to get called up you know and
07:29
I've managed to do that and obviously I'm proud of myself for that and
07:36
you know there was other players, Sancho at the time, at Dortmund, Jude at the time you know and
07:44
so I knew that I could give myself the best possibility but obviously it's down to myself
07:50
to be able to get myself to this this situation now. You said that it was a difficult time because
07:56
of how much your life was changing when you first went what did sort of methods did you put in place
08:01
to make sure that you could adapt to that much change?
08:06
I think indulging myself in the environment that was in you know initially it was it was difficult
08:13
but I thought by trying to obviously learn the language to get closer to my teammates to
08:21
understand the club a bit more and the fans and everything that was going on it would help me
08:28
and I think after a period of time I could see myself slowly being happier and you know
08:37
immersing myself more into to the squad and into the environment.
08:41
Okay I was gonna have to end it there so sorry to the two waiting.
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