
They don’t stand among our favorite teams but we had a blast covering Man United when they travelled to Malaysia for their Far East tour. All our preconceptions of them were wrong and they’re all really nice hombres- everyone from the folks in their entourage to the players!
We spoke to Anderson, Fabio, Nani, Rooney, Tosic, Evra, Carrick and even Sir Alex, Kiko Macheda and Paul Scholes briefly.
Rather excitingly, we met one half of our fav Brazilian twin-defenders, Fabio! And among other things, we told him he had sexy hair (thanks to Mari and Sabrina Sato for the inspiration). He chuckled – eyes twinkling – and said, “Obrigado!” By the way, the boy is left-handed and has soft hands. Sadly for us, Rafael wasn’t around for us to hang with so we gave Fabio the Futbolita camisa instead. “Ah, futbolita. Muito prazer!” Fabio said, taking the shirt with a smile. Charming!
We also met Nani - who believe it or not – is the friendliest hombre around and exudes NO douchebag behaviour whatsoever! Halfway throughout our convo, he said to me : “You speak good Portuguese, did you study it?” I replied, “Yes!” and Nani said, “Yes, you speak it well. Very good.” Then he added that he was bored in the hotel and there was nothing much for the players to do following the Jakarta bomb blasts and tight security. So I had to ask : “Do you guys feel sad that Cristiano is gone?” and he replied : “Well, we are getting used to it.” Tosic – who was next to him – told us he didn’t like the weather there.

Anderson and Fabio were both making fun of our article on Sthefany and Pato's wedding... jeheheheheheh!

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Ro
July 23rd, 2009 at 02:49
OMG! How’d you get that close to the pitch?!
Corrine
July 23rd, 2009 at 03:01
oh ma gad gurrrl
u look good
Talitha
July 23rd, 2009 at 07:39
‘Jakarta bomb blasts’ haha I could’ve met them if that bombing thing didn’t happen. Stupid bombers
Ash
July 26th, 2009 at 08:27
Aww, graciasssss por ti CORRINE jehehehehee
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Nono Gerrard
July 29th, 2009 at 18:08
<3 the Futbolita t-shirt! You're one lucky girl.
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Celina
August 3rd, 2009 at 12:25
Ah! You got to interview Nani, lucky! He seems like such a genuine and funny person. And he’s quite handsome too, if I do say so myself lol
Ash
August 4th, 2009 at 10:46
Yes! You’re right, he is very nice. I was surprised myself, to be quite honest!
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