Mexico City - Barcelona's and Mexico's young striker Giovani Dos Santos wants "to keep dreaming" after an explosion that has taken him to the first team of the Spanish giant and to the Mexican national team. "I feel very happy and I do not want to wake up, I rather want to keep dreaming with everything that I am living. I want to do well," Dos Santos, 18, told Mexican media Wednesday from Boston, Massachusetts.
The striker is in the United States ahead of Wednesday's match between Mexico and Brazil, featuring his friend and team mate Ronaldinho.
"I feel at the same level as all my teammates and I am very happy to be surrounded by stars at Barcelona and in the national team. I have to keep working like this in order to remain there," the teenager said.
Dos Santos was part of the Mexican team that won the Under-17 World Cup in 2005 in Peru. In recent weeks he made his debut with Barcelona in La Liga, and on Sunday he played with Mexico's senior team for the first time in his career.
"I am proud and happy. It is a dream come true. I am now in a different cycle, I am realizing my dreams," he said. "It is motivating to play with the stars, to fight for a starting place with (Thierry) Henry, (Samuel) Eto'o, (Lionel) Messi. Ronaldinho is something incredible. I was hoping that this moment would arrive."
Dos Santos stressed that he is trying to earn a spot at Barcelona.
"It is an honour for me to share the changing room with great idols of my childhood, and you have to get into their part, to live with them as if you were one of them," Dos Santos said.
