Orlando Sa and his Yellow-and-Blue teammates are preparing for their Matchday 25 encounter as they visit Bnei Yehuda at Bloomfield Stadium this Saturday at 19:30. Sa discussed his time in Israel, the Israeli style of football and how he is physically doing after coming back from injury:

“I was injured in the first game I played but Maccabi have very good professionals who helped me with the injury. I’m still not feeling 100% but I am training every day and I’ll be giving me best to help Maccabi.”

Competing against the other teams:

“I see that it’s difficult to score every game especially when teams have 11 players defending behind the ball. Also, every team wants to show a little bit more when they play against Maccabi, so it’s been hard to score. I will try to help and it’s great that the team is doing well and creating opportunities. We are winning but Beer Sheva is too.”

Beautiful and ugly football:

“Yes, I am enjoying my time in Israel. Everything has been great and I’m very happy to be here. Every game is hard and when teams come to play Maccabi they play to counter attack and it’s not easy to play beautiful football. Sometimes you have to play ugly in order to score. I know the fans and media may not like it, but we want to win games. Of course it’s better to play beautiful football but if we need to win ugly we will.”

Coming to play at  Maccabi:

“Jordi  knows me for a number of years and I know that there had been interest before but that’s football. I’m happy that this time it worked out for me to come to Maccabi. It was the best chance to come here and help out to win titles.”

On his role going forward:

“Maccabi has a lot of good quality players and I am working here with my teammates to help the team. I don’t care if I’m in the starting XI or on the bench. All I want to do is help Maccabi win.”