{"id":498,"date":"2025-01-20T20:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2025-01-20T20:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T12:43:28","slug":"last-season-i-lacked-confidence-and-looked-for-a-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/last-season-i-lacked-confidence-and-looked-for-a-professional\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Last season, I lacked confidence and looked for a professional&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-42.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-42.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-42-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/image-42-768x468.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raphinha said in an interview with Barcelona&#8217;s official media that his improvement in level compared to last season stems from a key decision: to hire a professional to help him alleviate his lack of confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barcelona winger Raphael Dias &#8216;Raphinha&#8217; explained in an interview broadcast on the Catalan club&#8217;s social networks that, after last season, he went to a professional to overcome his confidence problems and pointed to this treatment as one of the keys to his current performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLast season, I was not confident on an individual basis, I was not consistent in my games. Then, because of the difficulties I went through, I sought out a professional who could help me understand what I was feeling. This season, the confidence changed, the way of thinking changed. I am living the best moment of my career,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Brazilian international defined himself as \u201ca fighter\u201d who \u201calways tries to give the best\u201d of himself on the pitch and admitted that he feels \u201cvery happy and privileged\u201d to be one of Barcelona&#8217;s captains this season, in which he has 20 goals and 9 assists in 29 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raphinha, who scored 10 goals and 11 assists in 37 games last season, recalled that when he started playing football , he was questioned about his physique: \u201cI used to be extremely skinny, and people used to say that I didn&#8217;t have the strength or size needed to compete. I think that gave me the motivation to fight and prove that playing football doesn&#8217;t rely solely on size or strength\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the Barcelona striker revealed that \u201chaving seen the great Brazilian idols\u201d who have worn the &#8216;Cule&#8217; jersey throughout history \u201cwas also a motivation\u201d to follow his \u201cdream\u201d of becoming a professional footballer.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raphinha said in an interview with Barcelona&#8217;s of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}