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Rio Cardines press conference | Burnley vs Bristol City · Bristol City

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_02: Um first of all it's a pleasure to meet you.
• 0:01
  SPEAKER_02: You've only been at the club a few weeks.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_02: Judging by the way that you're playing, I'd say you're you're settling in very well indeed.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_02: How much are you enjoying playing for Bristol City so far?
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm loving it at Bristol City so far.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: Settled in well.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Everyone's really nice, welcoming, and I'm enjoying my time so far.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_02: I think as a young lone player, it might be for forgiven for taking a few weeks.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_02: Are you pleased how well you seem to have adapted to life in the championship?
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_02: First team football week in, week out?
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm happy.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Been starting games.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_02: That's all you can really ask as your first loan.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_02: And City seem to be finding their groove as well in terms of results.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_02: What difference has a couple of wins made to the squad generally?
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, high morale.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Everyone's really happy with the performances.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: A lot to learn, but I think we're going in the right direction.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: Tell me about the move too, Bristol City.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_02: You're at Crystal Palace in the summer.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_02: You had been there or thereabouts breaking into the first team.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_02: I think you played against Arsenal the last game of the season.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_02: How did the low move come about?
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_02: And did you have to think carefully before deciding that this was the right move for you?
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: I think there was a couple options, but as soon as I heard Bristol City, I know it's a big club, big ambition, so I was straight away excited for that.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_02: Because you're 20 years of age, are you at an age now where all the under-21's football is well and good, but you want to be playing first team football?
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, definitely.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_02: Definitely want to be playing first team.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_02: And the ambition, I presume, is in 12 months' time you have a good season at Bristol City and you're knocking on Crystal Palace's door?
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean that's the goal of Premier League football.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um hopefully we get promoted and then it's happy days.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_02: I had one fan talk about you on Tuesday saying they can't tell if you're right footed or you're left footed because you're good with with both feet.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_02: Which are you?
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_02: I'll leave that to them to decide.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have a favourite position?
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um to be honest, I I can't I couldn't tell you.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like I I like playing either side, left back, right back, left wing back, right wing back, left wing, right wing, and they both have their like fate.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: I have my favourite traits on each side, but I don't really have a favourite.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_02: And of course, attacking is part of your game.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_02: I think I think three goals you've been involved with so far, but but defensively, where are you at as a defender, would you say?
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, defending.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: I mean I know I've got a lot to improve, but that's that's why I'm here to learn, and obviously you get experience, so coming with that, there'll be mistakes, but I always keep my head up and just try my best.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_02: Did you have an inkling when you joined Bristol City that within a few weeks you'd be involved in a potential Pushkiss Award winner?
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but shout out to Dom for that, don't you?
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_02: When you got I mean, how good of you did you did you realise there and then how special that goal was?
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: Not really, no.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: I just um got a ball, I seen Dom make a run kind of thing, and then just hit low, and then the rest of history, but I didn't think I just kind of was in the moment until I saw it back.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, wow, the angles short better, to be honest.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_02: Um and you're uh you're an international with Trinidad and Tobago.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_02: Just tell me about how that came about and how much your games improved from playing international football.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely one of the most important things in my career.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: I went and made my senior debut in May 2025, and then since then I was around Palace first team, so I think it's a big step for me just to get senior experience with them early, and then getting used to it has been much easier.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: What's the standard like with Trinidad and Tobago?
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: Are they are they competitive in games?
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, very high standard.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: We were pushing for a World Cup but just narrowly missed up.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: But I think with the squad we have the talent, the boys coming up, we definitely have a good chance for 2030.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_02: I think Stern John's a bit of a Trinidad and Tobago legend.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_02: He used to play for Bristol City.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you're only 20 and you've won these caps as well.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_02: Looking forward, you must be very excited about the possibilities, and I I assume the World Cup is the end goal.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: World Cup is the focus.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_02: So, short term with Bristol City.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_02: Um have you seen enough to convince yourself that Bristol City can challenge for promotion, the playoffs this season?
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: Definitely, yeah, only a few games in, but I know with the squad we have the team, the ambition, everyone's that's the goal, and we're gonna go for it as much as we can.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_02: And Palace are going for a bit of a transition.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_02: Are they a club who apparent club who keep in touch with you on a weekly basis or do they leave you to your own devices now you're at Bristol City?
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, I'm in touch with I'm in touch with people at Palace, but yeah, it's a good club, my parent club.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and obviously I want to see them do well.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_02: And you may or may not be up against um Carl Walker or Burnley on Saturday.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_02: Just talk to me about the test coming up on Saturday.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_02: Is this perhaps one of your, despite their results so far this season, one of your toughest tests of the season?
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, I'd say yeah.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_00: Burnley are definitely a strong opposition coming from the Premier League, but I don't think we take the game as any different as we take any other game.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's just uh another game.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: Your positions just change, but every game we take it the same.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_02: Did you know anyone at Bristol City when you joined the club?
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_00: No, funny enough, no, no one.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: So who have you volunted with so far?
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: All the lads are really good, but um got on well with Lee Sav.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, everyone's really good though.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, were you pleased for Lee Sav on in the week to um get his first goal for the club and his celebration that followed?
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, really happy for it, yeah.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_02: Lovely to meet you.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_02: Good luck.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_01: Hi, could you just talk us through a little bit of your journey as a youth player?
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_01: It was only a few four or five years ago you joined Palace.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_01: Just talk us through like kind of I guess the process before that.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, so my dad started a team when I was really young.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um he started it for my brother originally, who's two or three years older than me.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_00: But I wanted to play, so I started in goal and I'd just dribble out a goal and score.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then eventually he put me out field, and then they started a team with my age, and then at around like six or seven, I went into Arsenal, and I was there until 10-ish, got released, played um for a team called London Coney Colts, where eventually I think 11 of us went on to like professional teams, like Arsenal, etc.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like uh yeah, a few went to Arsenal and a few other teams.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I played there, and then it switched to Enfield, Enfield Borough when we were like 14, and I joined Palace uh 15, turning 16, and then from there it's just been upwards.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's obviously a bit of a different route in.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: Do you think it like gives you that bit of ground in you know you've come through grassroots and had that experience of being released?
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: How does that shape you as a player?
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: Definitely a big moment for me.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um you build a lot, like you learn to overcome things differently.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I think it definitely shaped me into the person I'm today.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: In terms of that Arsenal team, are there any names that like kind of go on that you reckon we recognise from that team you build?
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um Miles Louis Skelly, Ethan Onery.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, a couple of big names.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: Does your brother still play as well?
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, my brother still plays playing for Bigleswin.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: Nice, yeah.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um he's doing well both footed.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: Runs of the family.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um can you just talk us through a little bit about Palace last year?
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: And you've been obviously kind of in and around that first team squad.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_01: What's been a really successful period for the club?
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: What has that experience been like with the conference league last year, the FA Cup year before?
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: That that sort of experience?
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, incredible vibe just around the whole club, the whole area.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: Everyone really happy with the recent success.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, winning three trophies in in the space of that like year kind of is incredible for any team, and especially being Palace, it's that bit more special.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: It must be it's obviously exciting to be around as well, but I guess it presents as a young player an even greater challenge.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_01: It's a tough time to force your way into a squad as well.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean definitely.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's never easy to, but especially with all that going on, it makes it a little bit harder.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: You mentioned you had a few options this summer.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: What was it about Bristol City that made you think that's that's the right club for me?
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_00: I know that it's I love it's a lovely city, first of all, because you want to be living somewhere that's nice and you're gonna enjoy yourself and massive club.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_00: I just know that everyone's ambitions here.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like when I spoke to the gaffer, I knew that this is where I want to be.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: I just know that it's best for my development.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_01: What were those conversations like with Michael?
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_01: Because he's obviously shown a lot of trust in you, throwing you straight in quite quickly.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: What were those like?
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um just a call on Zoom, showing me through how he's gonna like to play, and ever since then it suited me, so it's the best move.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's exciting time for the football club as you know, the business done this summer.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: It must be really encouraging when you join a club when they're in that stage and it feels like there's that ambition to push on.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, 11 new sign-ins.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: I think everyone's gelled together well well nicely, so we're gonna be having a good season.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: Another one of those new signings on deadline day.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: Have you had a chance to probably get to know and speak to Brian yet?
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, speaking to him at lunch a little bit, but um yeah, we'll have a few more conversations.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_01: Feels like he's bringing that a bit of a different profile as well, a bit more experience to a squad that's got it's a real blend, isn't it, as a group of terms of young players and older heads?
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, it's a really good group.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: I think we've got it in all departments, like even showing in the game against Preston, the bench made the difference.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: So in terms of the championship, has anything kind of surprised you about the division?
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: I know you've played at the highest level, but is there anything that you kind of stood out and thought, okay, that's a bit different to what I'm used to?
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um no, not really.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just enjoying it.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like I know the football's good, physical, um, but no, I've been really enjoying it.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_01: You mentioned those assists, a lot of them have come from set pieces.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: There's a few I think in that dressing room are fancy there.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: Chances you're having to get the elbows out at free kicks a little bit to push the license Scot away.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um I mean I know free kicks are one of my strongest points, and I've been practicing them from when I can remember with my dad.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: So terms of big away, another big away trip on on Saturday, how important and what you've made of the fan base so far?
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: Does I think you've seen some bit uh not the biggest away following on Tuesday night, but they've certainly made themselves heard.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, still a great turn up, even at Birmingham.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: Unreal fans, um, and we appreciate their travel and their dedication to support the team up and down the country.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: Imagine it makes a big difference as well when when you're somewhere like Birmingham and you can hear them over the top of the home fan.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_01: It must must really push you on.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: No, it does, yeah.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um all these are weird games.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um we just enjoy the when they're loud, it helps us.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: Best of that Saturday.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.