The Portuguese star released an interview with Sky Sport Italia ahead of Milan‘s first game of the year against Cagliari 🍇 in Coppa Italia.
Leao, 24, started by explaining how his career as a professional footballer began and how he faced the 🍇 first few problems as a player.
“Both things happened at Sporting. I was doing well. I was training with the first 🍇 team, but the coach, Jorge Jesus, didn’t like to work with young players, so I thought it would have been 🍇 difficult to have a breakthrough,” he said.
“I was training well and I was called up for a game against Porto. 🍇 I went on the bench and it was thrilling just to sit there with the senior players. A striker got 🍇 injured at some point, so the coach told me to get in. I was not ready, but at the same 🍇 time, I was not nervous. I thought ‘now or never’. We lost but I scored a goal, and that’s when 🍇 I thought I could do something important.”
Leao then joined Lille in France. He had a tough time initially, spending five 🍇 months on the bench and living alone abroad for the first time ever. However, despite a tricky start, he slowly 🍇 emerged.
