- The journalist confessed to Piqué that he has been living in Barcelona for four years and, taking advantage of his dominance of the language, gave him an interview in the player's mother tongue.
The Brazilian journalist Marcelo Bechler is the protagonist of the event. At the end of the Champions League game that was played on Wednesday night, FC Barcelona player Gerard Piqué was encouraged to receive statements in Catalan.
At first he thought it was a joke, but Piqué was “satisfied” with the journalist’s attitude. Bechler also noted that “he likes to speak in Catalan”. After the interview, the journalist translated the player's statements to the viewers of his environment in an interview carried out in Catalan.
The Brazilian journalist had a nice gesture to promote in sport the use of minority languages such as Catalan or Basque. Marcelo Bechler’s Twitter account has been filled in the last few hours with thousands of messages of thanks and the video of the interview has gone viral.
Interview video: