Deco, on Vitor Roque and his past at Barça: “I don’t remember a personal attack against an 18-year-old boy so strong and so ugly”

11/14/2024

Updated at 1:52 p.m.

Last summer the Betis managed to get the Brazilian forward Vitor Roque. The striker arrived at the green and white team from Barcelona, ​​which had previously bet heavily on him, paying more than 30 million euros for his signing. The forward of 19 years He did not meet expectations in the Barça team despite the fact that he barely had options to prove his worth. decorationBarça’s sporting director, has now regretted the treatment that the young striker received.

He did so in an interview given to Sports World in which he stressed that Vitor Roque “is doing well, he is scoring goals.” «Since I have known Barça, I have not remembered such an ugly attack on a young player, so it came from outside like with Vitor Roque.. Such an ugly and bad review. I don’t know where it came from, I don’t know if it’s an attack on me or the club, but I don’t remember a personal attack against an 18-year-old boy so strong and so ugly.. I mean evil, He was attacked very strongly, without any sense, for no reason», he explained. «We are now seeing with Endrick a normal process of an 18-19 year old player who comes to Madrid to go through a normal process. They have done a lot of damage to Vitor Roque and for me it has been very hard to see him suffer and see how he has turned out, how bad he has had it. I’m 47 years old and I’m not used to certain things either… He had a very bad time. What bothers me is that I think the attacks on Vitor were not against him. and I didn’t like it, the poor kid wasn’t to blame for anything, that they signed him, that whoever the sports director, the coach or the president doesn’t like him… He has suffered a lot,” he added.

«I am happy for him, that he is playing for Betis and is scoring goals and enjoying himself again. He is a young man who has a lot of potential and is going to grow but I don’t remember an attack like that,” Deco concluded. Vitor Roque has played to date 14 official matches with Betis in which he has managed to score five goals.