Dani Alves: "If Barça called me, I would go back tomorrow"
The PSG defender said he did not say farewell to Barça because "you don't say bye to your home"
Dani Alves keeps on collecting trophies (he is now the most decorated player of all time with 36 pieces of silverware under his arm) but he still holds a huge place in his heart for FC Barcelona, where he won the vast majority of his trophies.
In an interview with Globo TV, the Brazil fullback spoke about his time at Barça.
"Barça is my home. It's impossible to say I wouldn't go back there. I would go back to Barça tomorrow if they called me," he said.
"But if I said I didn't leave Barça feeling hurt I would be lying. I left hurting a lot because I feel that I fought so hard to construct Barça's great history and all that to get an unexpected response from the club. I left with 23 trophies in eight years."
Alves left Barça at the end of the 2015-16 season after winning the double of La Liga and the Copa del Rey.
He went to Juventus for a season and last summer joined PSG. Just as in Italy, he has won the league in France.
DANI'S COMPLAINTS
Alves also complained that the Barcelona directors did not behave as they should have.
"I gave great performances but they didn't respect my history," he said.
"They wanted me to have a farewell party but I said no. Because for me Barça will always be my home so when you think a place is your home you can't say goodbye. How can you say goodbye if you're going to come back?"
Alves turns 35 in May. As long as there are no surprises, he will stay at PSG next season, as he has a contract until 2019.
