The Brazilian Bani Yas team player, Luiz Antonio, who is playing his first season with the "heavenly", told his story with the famous "Maracana" stadium in Brazil, when he played in the final of the 2013 Brazil Cup against Atlético Paranaense, when he was a player in the Flamingo team, stressing That whenever his team bus approached the stadium, this caused him to feel more tense and stomach ache, as he was shivering and about to cry because of the awe of the stadium.
Antonio told the Brazilian newspaper Globo yesterday that the week before the final was one of the longest days in his life. He continued, “It was a very tense match, and I was very anxious, and I did not sleep throughout that week, and I was thinking constantly and talking to my father and trying to restore My focus, but later it became clear to me that I did not focus well, or say I did not focus as I wanted. ”
He added that «the extreme tension caused him also in stomach pain, and I was feeling cold and severe abdominal pain whenever we were approaching the (Maracana), and we were watching through the windows of the bus waves from the masses, the closer we were, the more I felt a cold and stomach pain I wanted to cry I was dither".
The Baniyas team player explained his desperate attempts to focus inside the changing room, and said: “I put my shirt on my face and kept focusing, and when the match started I felt as if I was playing on my own on the field, and at the same time I was hearing the crowd screaming, I felt like I was in a movie or somewhere Blank, I tried to focus on doing my homework on the field and I was listening to my heart beat. ”
Luiz Antonio stressed that he is keen to watch some of the Brazilian league matches, despite the time difference that sometimes reaches seven hours between the capital Abu Dhabi and Brazil, which makes him stay up until the early hours of the morning to follow the flaming games of the Flamingo team.
He played with Flamengo Brazil Cup final 2013 against Paranaense.