He's never played for a Portuguese team, has he? I thought it was just Frogs and Krauts.
And Gabon was French, I thought. The 'Geezers just had Angola. I mean, fair play to him, but I don't see where he learned it.
Only joking - from my understanding of the quote from Martinelli, he just said an introduction in Portuguese - as in All right, mate. He does speak English, French, German, Spanish and Italian though so maybe in his spare time he's learnt another language
That's sort of what I was getting at when I said than on my two visits to Portugal, they understood the Spanish I'd learned in S. America.
But I'm fairly sure they'd have known I was trying to speak Spanish, not Portuguese.
Maybe Auba just went "Hola, mi amigo" and young Gabby was so chuffed it sounded like pwoppa Portuguese to him.
Rich footballer with loads of time on his hands.
Probably learnt some words from every language to help his “chat up” game when he’s partying imo