FootballFrance.fr: Vincent Nogueira hello, thank you for coming to visit us before your flight. Let's go straight into the heart of the matter: why leave Sochaux, which you held for from the United States and the city of Philadelphia ?
Vincent Nogueira: This is a deliberate choice, do not think the thing I decided on a whim. Having spent half my life Sochaux [Editor's note: Vincent got there at age 14], I had to see something else. Then clearly I see something else: it is a great consecration after the first part of his career to want to reach the top. The United States is the ultimate.
FootballFrance.fr: But is not this a step backward to go play in the United States?
VN: You're kidding I hope! Everyone wants to live the American dream, there everything is bigger everything is bigger, it is a consecration for me to cross the Atlantic to play with the Union!
FootballFrance.fr: Exit and Sochaux in Ligue 1 for Philadelphia and the MSL is a dedication to you?
VN: Of course! In the USA, I will join the community of French who successfully pass the course, Tony Parker, Joakim Noah, Marion Cotillard ... You know, joining the United States and live there, it is the dedication in all areas. At the cinema, but also basketball and football so. American football, I want to see: I love the Superbowl, I never watched but everybody knows that it is the Mecca of world sport. I hope one day playing with my new club Philadelphia.
FootballFrance.fr: But you are aware that football is not football as we know it in Europe?
VN: Of course, I'm not an idiot. American football is not the same level as the French and European football in general, it is less technical but much more tactical and physical, I also believe that players are required to wear some extra accessories ... But I am ready! And when I see all the craze that's around the Superbowl, I want to be. I read that the final was one way this year [Editor's note:
Seattle easily outweighed Denver ] and yet everyone looked to the end, everyone spoke the next day. We can say what we want but American football is the dream of every kid's dream for all soccer players with a minimum of ambition "