Videos and my translation of the 2 post-match interviews
1. Pitch-side Interview directly after the match
Q: Was this perhaps the hardest final? “All finals are difficult. We knew that Liverpool would go hard, all English teams usually are like that, but we are the rightful winners, we scored 3 goals, could have scored more, and we made history.”
Q: Whose overhead kick goal was better, yours or Gareth’s? “That doesn’t matter. The main thing was to win, to go down in history. That’s the most important thing!”
Q: This winning project, with you as the figurehead, must continue “Now it’s the moment to enjoy this. In the next few days I’ll give the fans, who have been always by my side, an answer. It’s been very beautiful being at Real Madrid. Now I’ll enjoy this moment.together with my teammates. I’ll speak in the next few days. OK?”
Q: This sounds like a Goodbye? “No, no, I just want to enjoy with my friends right now, in the next days I’ll give an answer.”
Q: Tell us something optimistic! “Let’s enjoy the moment, we’ve made history. The future of any player isn’t important, important is that we’ve made history..”
2. Mixed zone interview, referring to the first one
“Q: “We’re a bit confused about what you said and we don’t want to take anything out of contexr. "It doesn’t take away from this beautiful, historic moment we are living because we won the Champions League 3 times in a row. Obviously this is a special moment. On a personal level, I very much wanted to win the Champions League. Another year that I’m the top scorer of the Champions League. I’m very happy, that’s something I wanted, I played a very good UCL, from the beginning to the final, and I’m very happy.”:
Q:Your fans might be a bit anxious with what you said. Do you have a message for them? “The personal things of the players aren’t ‘the most important thing right now, it might have been taken out of context but maybe I shouldn’t have said what I said.But I didn’t think that this would cause such a stir in the media, but that’s the reality.I prefer not to speak (now), We’ll enjoy this unique moment. And I personally played another top UCL campaign, with 15 goals. I’m very happy because this is the most important competition in club football. The personal situation of any player isn’t important right now. So as I said, I’ll take the opportunity to speak later, there’s one week until I’ll join the national team, then I’ll tell a bit more about my future.”
Q: You’ve won everything with Real Madrid, maybe that could cause a change? “Could be, could be. I’ve won 5 Champions League titles, that’s a big thing. I really didn’t expect that. but in this club we can always expect the best because it’s the greatest club in the world, that gave me and my teammates this opportunity. So we are very happy. We went down in history, and another year we made it.“
Q: You want to leave Real Madrid? “As I said before, the personal things of any player aren’t important right now. I’ll take the opportunity to talk within the next week when joining the national team.”
