What did you think about the Real Madrid experience? Egor Denim: It was awesome, man. It was It was great. I think it helped me a lot being there as a teenager. I went there when I was 15. We laugh at it. What we called it a ’golden cage’ cuz you basically get everything you need to live good and you have you have all the help around you, but there's not that much of a freedom. We were living in the residence basically like with all the athletes, it was like maybe 20 players of basketball and everybody else's soccer and it was like closed territory. Like a campus sort of thing, and we couldn't go out just whenever we wanted. We could go out like once a week and we got to tell our like our boss like, ‘Hey, we're going here. We're going with these people. I can't go by myself. I should go with like somebody.’ And it's been pretty hard sometimes. Obviously annoying like, ‘Hey, we want to have some freedom.’ But I think that helped me a lot.
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