Joao Cancelo

I see my start at Bayern as positive.

Transparent people like me don't always have it easy in today's fast and unforgiving world.

Teams like FC Bayern, Manchester City and Real Madrid are always tough to beat and are favourites to win the Champions League every season.

I know that my mother is very proud of my journey.

I always like to think positively, that's how I live my life in the best way possible.

However much people try to make me suffer they won't achieve it.

There have been lots of obstacles in my life and I've had to get over them.

I am comfortable bringing the ball to my team-mates in the final third so that they can show their talent and score goals.

I love being involved in the attacking phase.

I am used to playing on both sides and was able to develop both feet. I can do it. I feel comfortable.

At the end of the day, it will be the manager's decision where I play. Wherever he puts me on the pitch I will give my best.

I grew up watching Ronaldinho's Barcelona. He's my idol.

There are three, four, five clubs that stand for themselves - and FC Bayern is of course one of them.

Bayern is a club that considers discipline very important; the staff at FC Bayern are very professional - and I can identify with these principles.

Ultimately, I want to show that against all odds and challenges, I can always come back and get stronger.

I want to prove to the people and myself that I can adjust to new situations, regardless of the league or the club.

It may sound strange but for me the most difficult winger I have faced in the Premier League is Pulisic from Chelsea. He is a very skilful and fast player with the ball with quick dribbles.

I'm very impulsive and sentimental and quite possibly easy to read because I always express what I feel.

There's always a certain adjustment period for footballers.

Everyone and everything at FC Bayern is focused on absolute success. Here you work really hard in every single training session - I really like this mentality.

Sometimes it is said that I may not have a very simple personality. But my heart is in the right place. And you can always count on me.

I am a transparent person, I never lie.

I remember a time when I was robbed and attacked and the next day I was playing at the Emirates against Arsenal.

Since I was a kid I've made this technical move: the trivela. We have a player too in Portugal who for me is the best at doing this, which is Ricardo Quaresma. I started to experiment from the moment I saw him do it and it was getting better with the years.

A big part of my love for football is due to my mother. I had great moments with her.

Pep Guardiola was a big reason for me to join Manchester City. I've always admired him and the way he plays since he started at Barcelona.

I've improved myself as a player, in many ways, because I think that training with the best, automatically, you can't help but get better.

That is Cristiano: hard work, dedication, talent. All that is what makes him one of the best footballers ever.

I always like to take risks.

There is a lot of talent in Portugal, in general, but Felix is one of those who can really make a difference.

My biggest idol has always been Ronaldinho Gaucho. He was the player I most liked to see play on television.

For me, I grew up watching the best soccer team play, which is Barcelona in 2009, and many of my idols played here.

I am proud of my career because nobody has ever gifted me anything.

I've conquered everything with sacrifice.

I was lucky enough to play for only big teams.

I like new opportunities and have nothing against Manchester City.

When I lost my mother, I felt like I was at the bottom of a well. I felt like a robot that had to do its job, then go home, then another day - day in, day out. When I lost my mother, I didn't enjoy my football; I was playing because I had to.

My mother was always a fighter. Besides the jobs she had, she always found time to take me to and from training. Those are little values that you pass on: no matter how many difficulties, we always have the strength to overcome them.

In Portugal there is often no work; my father had to go to Switzerland to earn money to support our family.

The values they instilled in me, both my mother and my father, are humility, love, dedication and commitment - values I took from them in childhood.

I lived with my maternal grandparents, so I rarely saw my mother during the day; at one time she had three different jobs and I would only see her at dinner time.

I come from a humble family.

My mother is the person I admire the most in this world. I apologise to my father - I know he will not take it personally - but my mother is more like me. Her personality is most similar to mine. Only I know what she did for me; the difficulties we both went through, the conversations she had with me when there was no money at home.

Everything in life has an end.

I have a difficult personality, yes, but I have never, at any time, disrespected teammates or coaches.

I'm very professional, I've always given my face for all the clubs.

If City didn't want to, they wouldn't let me leave, because I had a contract.

Bernardo Silva and I have a relationship for a long time, we are from the same generation at Benfica, we have a very beautiful friendship because we are two completely opposite people and I think that's the funny thing. He's a typical person from Lisbon and I'm just that guy who practically came from the street.