Gabriel Jesus admits it was difficult to read the negative criticism directed towards him during last year's World Cup.
The Manchester City striker was one of several players targeted in Brazil after the prodigious nation failed to make it past the quarter-final stage in Russia.
"As a supporter, I would not like a Brazil number nine to not score," he told UOL.
"I did not have a good time at work, it happens to everyone.
"I think even if we were eliminated, if I scored in the first or in the fifth game, it would change the whole view of my World Cup.
"I confess that now I have not read much criticism that was written about me, because it was very heavy.
"There are people who praise a person who has played a good game or two, saying that he is a star.
"Others criticise a person who played one or two bad games, saying, 'Why do you play football?'"
"Sometimes it seems they do not want to see the person evolving personally and professionally."
