Barrios: It’s good to have this responsibility

• Gremio won their third Copa Libertadores climax late final month
• Forward Lucas Barrios scored 6 goals en track to a title 
• Barrios: “Our dream is to lapse home with a trophy”

Any group that rises a Copa Libertadores is, by weight of story and a expectations of their fans, underneath a requirement to strech a final of a FIFA Club World Cup. Newly-crowned South American champions Gremio are no difference to that rule.

“Playing for a large bar like Gremio always brings obligations with it,” concurred Lucas Barrios, one of a Brazilian club’s star men, in review with FIFA.com. “It’s a outrageous shortcoming to be representing a bar and South American football, though we have to live with that pressure. It’s a good shortcoming to have too.”

The front male is not in any approach underestimating their initial opponents during UAE 2017, however: “We know that some people are awaiting us to make a final, though if we’re going to make it, we have to consider about a semi-final first. That’s how we approached each tie in a Libertadores and it worked good for us.”

Campeões ⚫️⚪️ pic.twitter.com/It28s1qbDd

— Lucas Barrios (@LucasBarrios_) November 30, 2017

Unlike prior years, when Copa Libertadores winners had to wait a best partial of 5 months before rebellious a Club World Cup, Gremio will conduct into their opening compare opposite Pachuca or Wydad Athletic Club buoyed by their newly acquired standing as continental champions.

“It’s not an advantage,” pronounced Barrios. “The critical thing in a semi-final is to be during your really best on a day.”

And what about sleepy legs during a finish of a prolonged season? “There is that, though we’re so gay during carrying won a Copa and reached a Club World Cup. We wish to play a large part.”

Pointing out dual other pivotal factors in Gremio’s Libertadores triumph, that could also infer useful during UAE 2017, Barrios said: “First, there’s a team, that is clever and firmly knit, with no particular egos. And afterwards there’s a fact we play improved divided than we do during home. That shows how mature we are as a team.”

Barrios has no qualms about voicing his enterprise to face Spanish giants Real Madrid. He believes Gremio have what it takes to disintegrate them as well.

“Of course, we do,” he pronounced though a spirit of doubt in his voice. “Even with a players they’ve got and with all they’ve won, we’ll contest with them, if we get a chance. We haven’t come to a Club World Cup to make adult a numbers. Our dream is to lapse home with a trophy.”

Barrios in a 2017 Copa Libertadores

• Played in 13 of his side’s 14 matches en track to a title
• Gremio’s second-highest scorer with 6 goals, behind Luan, who scored eight
• Provided one assist
• Played a partial in environment adult dual other goals
• Had a palm in 36 per cent of Gremio’s goals (nine out of 25)

The Renato Gaucho effect
“By a time we strech a age of 33, we know how we need to do things, though Renato helped me get my certainty back. As a coach, he reminds me of (Jurgen) Klopp, who asked me to ‘attack by defending’ when we was during Borussia [Dortmund]. That’s what a complicated diversion is all about – a centre-forward can’t only mount there watchful for a round to come to him.”

The stat
18 – Barrios is Gremio’s heading goalscorer in 2017 with 18 goals in 43 appearances, 33 of them starts.

Did we know?

• Barrios was innate in San Fernando, Argentina, on 13 Nov 1984
• He done his veteran entrance in 2003 with Argentinos Juniors
• Gremio are his 13th bar (he has formerly played in Chile, Mexico, Germany, Russia, France and China PR)
• A naturalised Paraguayan, he played for his adopted nation during a 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africaâ„¢

Parabéns,Grêmio e a toda torcida tricolor! Hoje 114 anos de uma história de conquistas. Orgulho de vestir esta camisa. Gremio#Tricolor#LB#18 pic.twitter.com/46prECGlmK

— Lucas Barrios (@LucasBarrios_) September 15, 2017

Article source: http://www.fifa.com/clubworldcup/news/y=2017/m=12/news=barrios-it-s-great-to-have-this-responsibility-2923198.html