My Goal Against Real Madrid Was Emotional Because My Grandmother Died – De Bruyne

Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne has come out to say that he was playing full of emotion when the club beat Real Madrid on the way to winning the UCL. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, his wife’s grandfather and his own grandmother died during that period, so when he scored the goal vs Real Madrid, the different emotion he was feeling at the time got too overwhelming and led to his teary celebration.

De Bruyne added that there was a viral clip where he got angry with Pep during the same game, and that was because he was all over the place.

“It’s probably one of the best weeks and the worst that I’d ever had in my life. I remember we played on the Tuesday and my wife’s grandfather, who was really close to us, was dealing with cancer.

Obviously he was not really good and I think a lot of people already said goodbye. I was basically the only one who didn’t say goodbye so on Sunday I flew to Belgium to say goodbye.

He was in really bad pain, then on Monday I had to fly here, train in the morning, then fly to Madrid and then on the Monday evening he died. It was a really emotional time, then obviously the next Sunday I had to go before the other Madrid game on Sunday or Monday to attend the funeral.

Then at the time of his funeral my grandmother died so I had to drive five hours to say goodbye to her, it was an absolute mess. I just played on pure emotion, no sleep. There’s that clip where I got angry with Pep in the Madrid game because I was all over the place. I did what I had to do to play football.”

WOW.