Eder Sarabia: I’ve told colleagues at Barcelona ‘slap me if I…’

Eder Sarabia admits joining Barcelona left him and his father in tears.

Sarabia is assistant coach to Quique Setien at the Nou Camp.

He recalled: “I remember the incredible hug I gave my father and we both cried.

“We are so lucky. It’s true that we’ve worked a lot to earn this opportunity but you have to be ready to take advantage of them too. We’ve got to give it everything and show the best version of ourselves.

“In the second or third day here, I remember we were eating and I stopped to talk to my colleagues. I said that if I ever complained about anything to give me a slap because I had no reason to complain. We know how privileged we are and we’ll give everything. We realised this again during the Copa, when we were losing and possibly going out.”

Sarabia also revisited his controversial antics during defeat to Real Madrid.

“I’m very passionate and I don’t think that freaking out on the bench doesn’t mean I don’t value and feel privileged to work with Leo, Gerard and Antoine every day.”

He does recognise that he might need to control his emotions more in the future.

“You have to learn from everything but without losing who you are. When you arrive at a new place it’s because of how you’ve been. But I will take advantage of this to learn and not make the same errors again.”

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