Swansea City's Chico Flores has fallen for the Welsh way of life "This is Wales, not Spain," says Flores, who is one of eight Spanish players in the Swansea squad. And we have to adapt to the Welsh style of life. Obviously the Spanish style of play is here in Wales! But Wales is not Spain. Still, Swansea's success - and their Spanish contingent - means the club are talked about back home. An under-21 international, Flores harbours ambitions of a full cap. I want to meet my goals, it's something that I have thought about and something I would like to achieve. I focus on Swansea and I also have to be realistic. Spain are the best team in the world and there are a lot of good players who are not in the national team. But, yes, I would love that. It's my dream. Like almost all the Swansea players he lives in the city. It's a family club. We are close to the supporters. Very close! An example? The changing room at the training ground was just a gym, open to the public, and the fans were able to use it. It wasn't owned by the club so we shared this gym and the fans let us know what they thought. It was a positive thing. It meant we were even closer to them. With his hair dragged back into a pony-tail, those twinkling ear-rings and his black beard, there is something piratical in Flores's appearance. The 26-year-old's home city of Cádiz, the port in southwestern Spain, has a rich nautical history and Flores's style of football is appropriately swashbuckling, particularly for a centre-half. Swansea's style of football matches with my style. Swansea is not a famous team but it was an attraction for me that a more modest team, so to speak, plays in this way. I'm a defender but I like the way we keep the ball and the kind of football we play sits very well with me. I want to play the ball and also attack and go forward. We are one of the better footballing teams in the league and do well against the better teams because of the way that we play. It's top-class football. The problem for Swansea is that results this term have not always matched their swaggering style. It was always likely to be difficult to replicate last season's staggering successes - winning the Capital One Cup, qualif ying for the Europa League, finishing ninth - but a relegation battle has been the crudest of wake-up calls. This season, Laudrup and his players are focused simply on ensuring that next season they are in the Premier League. That task continues with a home match on Sunday against Tottenham Hotspur before a run of games against teams who sit around them in the bottom half of the table. "It's been frustrating but we have to think realistically and the fact is Swansea are a relatively modest team in the Premier League," Flores says. The main goal is to remain in the Premier League and make sure we are in it next season. Last season was really good but it was always going to be difficult to maintain that. It's been complicated because of the Europa League and with a lot of players injured but now we will start getting the results and the points that we need. Flores's renowned commitment to the cause - "I give everything and have done so with every team I have played for. More than 100 per cent - you understand?" - will be invaluable but he at least understands that there is more to life than football. He reveals that he also wants to gain a pilot's licence and study architecture and design. I would like to learn. But only after football. And when, eventually, that comes, how does he want to be remembered? The main thing I would like to hear is simple: he did the best for the team. But I am like any player: I want to do my best and I want the fans to love me. Like everyone I can have good games, bad games but it's about working really hard for the team. If they remember me as someone