Douglas Costa confirms he had to apologise for spitting on Federico Di Francesco to earn his recall to the Brazil squad.
The Juventus winger was given a four game ban for the incident in September, and wasn’t called for his national team.
While the former Bayern Munich man was injured, Coach Tite confirmed that he wouldn’t have called him anyway due to the incident with Di Francesco.
Douglas Costa confirms he had to apologise for spitting on Federico Di Francesco to earn his recall to the Brazil squad.
The Juventus winger was given a four game ban for the incident in September, and wasn’t called for his national team.
While the former Bayern Munich man was injured, Coach Tite confirmed that he wouldn’t have called him anyway due to the incident with Di Francesco.
“I spoke face-to-face with the Coach,” Douglas Costa explained from the Brazil camp.
“He told me what he thought, I respect him a lot and I apologised. It was a bad incident, it wasn’t like me and it was something that had never happened before in my career.
“Now I just want to put it behind me and keep working.”