We are four brothers and none of us likes to lose. We played basketball where we've all been on the same side, we've also played where we've been split across the two opposing teams. It was always in friendly games between mates, and nobody ever liked to lose, so if my brother is in front of me for the other team and I have to knock him, I'm going to knock him, because I want to win!



That's the competitive mentality we all share. If my brother is on the same side as me, and I have to defend him, I'm going to defend him – we always have the will to win, but if you were to put the four of us together, with another friend alongside, you would have a great team, and the five of us could put on a great basketball talent display for you.

To be frank, out of the four of us in the family, it was Oscar who was the best basketball player back then, with his understanding of the game. But looking at Diego now, and how much he has developed and how much he has learned, and all the skill he has for playing basketball, we are all very happy for him, and I always try to see his games, especially as now you can see most games on the internet, so whenever he plays at what you might call an early time of day, as I'm living in England, you can find me in front of the computer or the television, so I can report back to him how everything looked.



It was a big step for him to go to the United States but, as he expressed to the whole family, it was an important step and it was a big decision for him to take at that stage of his life. He was still a young lad, if I remember rightly, he can't have been more than 16 years old at the time, but he had that opportunity, and without knowing how to speak English, only knowing how to speak his mother tongue Spanish, he accepted that challenge of moving to the US.

He took English classes to learn to speak the language, and he speaks much better English now than I do, and he made that sacrifice, so as to play American basketball. He learned a lot, and developed a lot as a basketball player.



On top of all that, he studied at the university too, so he has some really great memories of what Florida meant to him, but he also has great memories of Jon Morris College which was the first place he went to in the United States, without speaking the language.



He did two years in Jon Morris College, then three years in Florida State University. For us, it was nice, and a great source of pride, to see him doing well in the US, it was incredible to see him playing in those games, in the colours of an American basketball side, as we all loved to watch American sports, a real honour.