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Chelsea goalkeeper Eduardo warns Vitesse pals: I've a difficult character

Chelsea goalkeeper Eduardo is happy with his loan move to Eredivisie partners Vitesse Arnhem.

Eduardo also discussed his nickname, 'beetle'.

"At Vitesse I have a new challenge. That feels very good," says Eduardo, who says he has the nickname bicho (beetle in Portuguese).

"Many friends laugh at it, but that's part of me. I was not born with the greatest talent. I have seen many goalkeepers who had more qualities than I did. But I love to work and stand on the field. And I only know one way of working: two hundred percent, every day.

"Sometimes I am too strict for myself and for my colleagues. I know that I have a difficult character and temperament. Obsessively sometimes. Yet that is the secret of my career. I have achieved much more than I ever dreamed."

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