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08.05.2009 20:54

Eto'o: “The Pichichi is not that important to me”

Jaume Marcet

Samuel Eto'o has put the three trophies that FC Barcelona can win as a team ahead of any individual awards that he could pick up this term as he is in line to the top flight's top scorer.

The Cameroonian international is keen for the Blaugrana to start winning silverware and make the current season successful after it has already been very impressive. "We cannot think beyond the next game that we have," he explained, looking ahead to the game against Villarreal. "We are playing for more than them and although we know that they lost to Sevilla, we can only focus on playing the game our way."

Trophies before individual prizes

Insisting throughout the press conference, Eto'o reiterated that it did not matter to him who scored the goals fort the team as long as the team kept wining. "I would sign up now to win all our remaining games and have Carles Puyol or Víctor Valdés score all the goals."

Asked about the position that he played against Real Madrid when he was employed out wide quite often, the striker said that he was more than happy to do whatever the coach asked him to do. "I knew that in Madrid I had to do the job that the trainer wanted me to and I am willing to play wherever where I am needed. If that is in the middle or out wide I will do it if it is good of the team," he added. On the matter of winning the Pichichi award by adding to his 27 league goals, Eto'o was clear. "It is true that I do think about it a little, but I have already reached the target that I set myself at the start of the season," he said. "I will do everything I can to win that, but what is more important is trophies for the team and then I we should think about the Zamora for the keeper or the Pichichi."

Compliments for the boss

On Pep Guardola and his work, Eto'o continued: "He is one of the key reasons why we are doing what we are doing this season," he explained. "He works with a large group of professionals and he has studied us all and it makes everything easier. He is a coach that does not find time to sleep much as he tries to prepare the details ahead of every game. Since the start we have believed in him and he is our boss and has drawn up the guidelines, so now we are obtaining the results that we are and that everyone dreamed of."