Hello and welcome to our Portuguese magnifico, Bruno Fernandes! Bruno, how are you coping, being isolated with your family in lockdown?

“I’m okay. You know, when you have your family close, it’s easier. It’s difficult with the little baby because she needs to spend the energy she has – and she has a lot of energy! But me, my wife and my child have some different ways, to do some games and spend our time together.”

It’s great that you’ve got the family there so you can spend time as a family. Do they help you keep motivated and help you stay sane?

“Yes, they help a lot because when you have someone to stay with you during the day it’s easier. If you stay alone at home it can be harder because you can’t go out, you can’t do anything. You have just to talk with the walls, nothing more and it will be difficult. I think when you have family close and you can spend time. For us, most of the time we don’t have this time to be at home because we are out for games and everything. It’s difficult staying at home all the time because it’s not normal but you need to enjoy this time because you don’t know for how much time we will stay at home like this so you need to enjoy these moments. I hope soon we go back to the normal life and start playing games.”

One thing we notice about you straightaway Bruno is your beard, the beard is growing. Diogo Dalot was answering a tweet of yours the other day saying “We’ve found the new actor of Narcos…”

“No, no, we’ve found the new Juan Sebastian Veron! But the hair, the hair needs to stay.”

So you’re not going to follow suit with Paul Pogba, Andreas Pereira and everyone shaving their heads?

“No, no. I’m crazy, but not so far!”