‘I have to thank my old friend Albert Fantrau for my success. We played together when we were young. When people from Sporting Lisbon arrived, they told us that whoever scored more goals would be accepted to their Accademy. We won that game 3-0, I scored the first solo, then Albert scored a header, and the third was a goal that impressed everyone. Albert went one on one with the goalkeeper, I was running next to him, he went round the keeper, all he needed to do was just to put it into the empty goal. But, he passed it to me and I scored. I was accepted to the Sporting Lisbon Academy. After the game, I approached him and asked: ‘Why?’ and he answered: ‘You’re better than me!’
Several years later a journalist went to Albert’s house, and asked whether the story was true. He confirmed it. He also said that his career as a football player finished after that match and he is now unemployed. ‘But where did you get such a gorgeous house, a car? You seem to be a rich person. You also provide for your family.. .Where is all this from?’ asked the journalist ‘I mug people with Ibra’ replied Albert.
