“There are not many people training in Portugal, the ones available were older like Frederico Gil and Rui Machado and in the north region there was no one like in Lisbon, so I had to go for other solutions”

—  João Sousa

On his decision to relocate from Portugal to Barcelona when we was 15, during 2012 Rio de Janeiro Challenger.
Source: Português cansado de ser confundido com o Souza brasileiro: 'É ridículo' [Portuguese tired of being mistaken with the Brazilian Souza - "It's ridiculous" http://tenisnews.band.uol.com.br/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=50284,, Band, 2 November 2015]

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