Ederson, the current goalkeeper of Manchester City, confessed to being a lover of boxing and one of the funniest in the dressing room. The Brazilian admitted that he sometimes overdoes it with his teammates who tend to keep their distance from him as a result.
The dressing room of any elite team is full of personalities that are sometimes difficult to complement. Manchester City, far from being like this, have been in good spirits for years. They have formed a great group with an already consolidated base. And Ederson, already important in the club, wanted to reveal in his interview for the YouTube channel 'Brazil Pilhado' how his day to day at the club goes.
Weeks ago, Gabriel Jesus dropped that the keeper, sometimes, plays somewhat aggressive jokes on his teammates- always in a joking tone. For that reason, Ederson wanted to explain himself: "I like boxing a lot. Sometimes I fight, I play. At the club, when I go to the gym, it is more to train boxing. I don't like to use any machine, only boxing".
About his Brazilian compatriot he made an interesting comparison: "He is like Coca-Cola. You shake it and he explodes. He always says that. I go up to him and he tells me no, that there is an important match. He likes to shake things up. The day he has a stressful day...".
"It's not fear, it's respect. People are sometimes afraid to play with me because sometimes I don't know how to control my strength very well and I end up going too far. Children have complained that I hit them too hard. My right hand has great power. Sometimes I play and tell my teammates: 'Hit me three times and I'll hit you once'. Now they are aware and don't play.
And he summed up his behaviour with the group with an anecdote with Yaya Touré during his stage at City: "Once I fought with him in the dressing room. I gave him a 'rear naked choke' - a strangling technique used in martial arts. We played in the dressing room and I used to make fun of him, he played a lot. I had that freedom because I liked him and he liked me too. He would tell me: 'Ed, ed, stop'. I think it was also because he was older".