Orlando City signing Kaka insists he's proud of his time with Real Madrid.
The €60 million signing says he was "not a failure" at Real.
"My time at Real Madrid wasn't a failure," he told Esporte Espetacular. "I played 120 matches, I scored 28 goals and I played an average of 30 games a season. What's more, I won three trophies: La Liga, a Copa del Rey and a Supercopa de España."
On his relationship with former Real coach Jose Mourinho, now in charge of Chelsea, Kaka also remarked: "He was a person who helped me to grow, to be patient, to fight and to respect the coach's decisions.
"I learned to respect the coach, his decisions and to do everything in my power to show him that I could play. That's what I did during the three years that I worked with him. He helped me to mature and I went from being a kid to being an adult."
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