The Brazilian even lost a shirt signed by the star, but managed to recover it. He had the help of a taxi driver from Santos who found the suitcase, and today the item is in his home.
Pituca also said that he tried to convince Iniesta to come to Santos. He sent a message after the Spaniard reacted to his post about Peixe on Instagram, but was unable to get him out of the United Arab Emirates.
Well we wanted [trazer Iniesta para o Santos]. I told him to come, but I think he’s fine there, he doesn’t want to come, he’s calm. But who knows, we tried, at least. Pituca, in the Mixed Zone of Hernan
What Pituca said
Iniesta’s insistence: “When I arrived in Japan, he was at Kobe, we played against him. He was there and I did really well. At half-time, he came to me and said: ‘Do you have any intention of playing here?’. I didn’t even take it seriously, yeah. Iniesta. He finished the game and came again. I thought he had just arrived, with three years on his contract. He said: ‘Let’s try to see that.’ Take it, I’ll go’. After a while he called me on Insta, I couldn’t believe it. He said he was interested, but that Kashima was making it difficult. So I said: ‘But I wanted to play with you, right’. Kashima didn’t let me go, I asked them to lend me, but they didn’t let me. Then I explained to him.
Autographed shirt: “In the return game, I wanted his shirt, but I was embarrassed. I spoke in the middle of the game. The game ended, we shook hands, he went into the locker room, I thought he must have forgotten. Then the translator said that There was a guy calling me. Who had the shirt? He said he came to bring the shirt and that the thing about going to Kobe was on (…) He wanted his autograph on the shirt. friend, Diego Pituca’. I put his shirt in a painting, his and Pelé’s are there, signed and one from my first game with the Santos shirt”.
