VERSATILE: Gabriel Paulista tried out a host of positions as a junior [GETTY] “When we are little, we always want to be on the attack, but I realised that it wouldn't work, so I kept going backwards and backwards” Gabriel Paulista "The only thing I didn't try was being a goalkeeper. I stopped there. "So I started to play in defence and I started to do well, I started to enjoy it. I made my decision, I thought: 'This it is! I'm not leaving here'. "I began enjoying it and I started to want to defend, to fight not to let them in, not to let the other team score goals. "I always have that in my head - to want to defend, and defend well. And that is why."
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