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When, in January 2012, he debuted in Primera with the Levante shirt, Roger Martí's skin (Torrent, 1991) was not yet full of memories in ink. Nor did he imagine that after two serious knee injuries he was going to be fighting to be the top national scorer and that even Barça would have him on his agenda. A matter of work and perseverance, he says. Today, his only obsession is to score against Real Madrid.

Was Barça's interest taken seriously? Yes, because they kept in touch with my agent. But I am focused on the Levant, I know what my contract and my clause are and at no time have I forced anything. It's nice that Barça was interested, who wouldn't like it, but it's already an anecdote. Ten goals and fighting Zarra. Does it have more value to do it from a team like Levante? Maybe, because teams like ours do not have as many scoring chances in games as the big ones, so you have to be focused and know that the one you have has to go inside. But I do believe that it is more difficult to score goals in Levante than in Real Madrid. In 20 years there have only been three top Spanish scorers. Is Pichichi impossible? Being Messi or Suarez ... it's very complicated. We will fight for Zarra until the end, giving war. There are few national strikers in the teams at the top of the table ... It is difficult to notice us, because they still think that the outside is better, like . But we have no choice but to speak in the field. I try to prove that I am a very valid player for the First Division. Do you really believe that the pure 9 is in extinction? I feel comfortable playing in that position, I have those characteristics, but I have had to evolve to understand the game better. Without the ball you can make a move that benefits a teammate, and you have to be technically better to be effective in the pass because the teams tend to have more possession. Do they face the best Real Madrid in recent years? I don't know if it's the better, but they have made a change and are in a great moment. It would not be the first time they suffer in the Ciutat ... We have shown that we can win anyone. We already did it against Barça and why not get it against Madrid Two seasons exceeding the score of goals. Are you at your best? Counting the season of promotion with Levante, maybe yes. And this season I can still increase the number of goals and that the team will benefit, that they serve to add. It has in sight the top scorer record of Levante, in possession of Koné with 17 goals. It is another fact that does not make me dizzy, but when I debuted, he was in the first team and I liked him very much, I noticed his movements a lot. He says that there are players who have to do twice to be recognized half ... Yes, there are those who have more attunement with the press, with the stands, by the way they play ... but as for numbers I don't You can ask me much more. I show that I am very valid for Levante and all I want is to score goals. What has football taught him? Not to lower his arms. I've had torn ligaments in both knees and never threw in the towel. I fought and if I had to define myself in one word it would be perseverance and work. Only then do you stay in First. Did you think it is over? If I tell you the truth, no. Everything falls on you. But you cry one day and the next you put the batteries to start recovering. You never like to live it, but they made me a better footballer and a better person. Diego Costa was his example ... Yes. I didn't know what an injury like that meant the first time I broke up, so I started looking for players that had happened to them and how they had come back, because you always have doubts about how you will be, if you will lose speed, if you will be different. .. And I looked a lot at Diego Costa because there is nothing more to see how everything is left in the field and has even finished in the selection. I have always liked the characteristics it has, which are similar to mine. You are also a player of a lot of character ... They tell me a lot, because I am heavy, a fighter with defenses ... but it is different outside the field . Do soccer players have to build a character? I don't know. We are exposed to being judged by everyone and, even if you want to like everyone, it is impossible. For example, wearing tattoos does not mean you are a bad person or a bad person. It's just that I like them a lot. I do not want to give a picture of anything. His gesture of gunman to make a goal is already a personal brand ... It is a dedication to my family. I have a picture of me as a little boy dressed as a cowboy and I thought it was a nice gesture towards them. His last tattoo? Uff, wait for him to think (laughs). I think the ones in the neck. I have the dorsal with which I debuted, the dates and the field coordinates where I scored the first goal, an image of Billy El Niño, my dogs, two angels that symbolize my brothers ... I have many because I love them. Western movies? Not now. As a child I swallowed them all with my grandparents and that's where the gunman comes when I score goals.

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