El Pais, the best-selling newspaper in Spain, has been conducting a series of quick-fire question and answer interviews with members of the Spanish national squad throughout the World Cup and earlier this week it was the turn of Pepe Reina.
Q: Can you recommend me a food shack on the beach?
A: Casa Pepe, in Torremolinos, or Malibú in Ibiza.
Q: Would you ban bullfighting?
A: Never.
Q: What gets on your nerves?
A: Watching a game from the bench.
Q: Do you know what a scrum is?
A: An ice crum?
Q: Do you remember what was your first kiss like?
A: Vaguely.
Q: What do you play on Play?
A: I don't play, I don't like it.
Q: Nesquik or Cola Cao?
A: Nesquik.
Q: How many watches do you own?
A: More than a dozen.
Q: What were your first boots like?
A: They were from Marco.
Q: How long has it been since you went to the circus?
A: I went to Cirque du Soleil in Manchester a while ago.
Q: How long does the pregnancy of a whale last?
A: 80 weeks, more or less.
Q: Do you know who Katalinski was?
A: He scored a goal against Spain. Polish. No... not Polish, Yugoslavian.
Q: Where was Iribar born?
A: In País Vasco.
Q: Who did you ask for an autograph when you were a kid?
A: Zubizarreta, in the Hotel Sanvy in Madrid. He was my idol.
Q: Do you know who wrote Saber perder?
A: No.
Q: What is your dog's name?
A: Curro.
Q: Why have shows with midgets in the bullfighting ring in Zaragoza been prohibited?
A: For a lack of respect.
Q: Which player has kicked you the most?
A: No one kicks me.
Q: Why hasn't the Constitutional Court passed the Estatut [the Statute of Autonomy of Cataluña]?
A: I don't know and I'm not interested.
Q: What year did apartheid end?
A: I don't know exactly.
Q: What was the name of Pippi Longstocking's horse?
A: I put that on every morning when I'm take my daughters to school! Gran Tío? No, Señor... No, that's the monkey, Sr. Nelson. Pequeño Tío!
Q: Have you been able to get a reservation at elBulli?
A: I've never tried.
Q: What's the last TV series you've become addicted to?
A: 24 and Lost.
Q: If it weren't for the World Cup, why would you go to South Africa?
A: To hunt sharks.
Q: What does Liverpool have that Johannesburg doesn't?
A: A football team that plays in Anfield.
Q: How many years was Mandela imprisoned?
A: I should know this because I've just finished reading Carlin's book. 24 years?
Q: Do you know what an Afrikaner is?
A: A white South African, no?
Q: How many diapers have you changed in your life?
A: With two daughters, more than one.
Q: What is the name of Portugal's captain?
A: Cristiano or Bruno Alves.
Q: Does a lion or a hippo kill more people?
A: I imagine it would be the lion.
Q: How are you doing in the porra of the team?
A: I fell behind... I finished horribly.
Q: To be a Spanish international, do you have to know how to play pocha (a card game)?
A: No.
Q: Do you know where del Bosque was born?
A: Salamanca.
Q: What position did Xabi Alonso's father play?
A: Midfielder.
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