Eric Garcia: I wonder why what I said came out but not Vinicius' words
The Barcelona defender's comments were headlines last season but not Vini's this year
Last season, during FC Barcelona's 4-0 win over Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu, the Movistar cameras captured a brief discussion between Eric Garcia and Vinicius in which the Barça defender, after a good defensive action against the Brazilian, said "next year, Ballon d'Or".
Garcia has now been asked about the incident in an interview on 'Radio MARCA' and revealed his surprise at the fact that the conversation they had in this season's Clasico has not come to the fore.
“Yes, I said it to him," Garcia said. "It was just in the heat of the moment of the game. What made me angry was that, in the last game at the Bernabeu, he also said something to me, the cameras filmed it and he has not come out.
"I'm not going to say what he said, he's a great player and I don't have any problems with him, but I wonder why that didn't come out and what I said did."
Although he has not yet been able to debut at the World Cup in Qatar, the Barça centre-back is "relaxed because he believes that, at the level that he is training "physically" and "mentally", "it will come."
