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Officially presented to the media this Friday, Vinicius Junior expressed his admiration for Neymar, who is announced as his successor.
Officially recruited to the Brazilian club Flamengo a year ago against the significant sum of 45 million euros, Vinicius Junior joined Real Madrid this summer, he is still unknown to the general public in Europe. Aged 18, he was introduced this Friday by the recent winner of the Champions League, who hopes to have found in him the future prodigy of world football. And inevitably, when one is Brazilian, young and with a surrealist technique, the comparison with a certain Neymar is never far away.
"If I'm better in a field, it's up to you to me to say "
Indeed, in Brazil, Vinicius Junior is even nicknamed the" new Neymar Jr ", although he has not yet experienced the joys of a selection with the Seleçao, eliminated against Belgium (2-1) at the semifinal stage of the last World Cup. A comparison he intends to leave to others, even if he admits to be a big fan of the Paris Saint-Germain player. "Neymar is my idol, it's a player I'm very close to, but it's not just my idol, it's the idol of all Brazilians, I do not know if I look like him or not, if I'm better in a field, it's up to you to tell me " said the new Madrid in the spans of Santiago Bernabeu.
Conscious of the path he has to accomplish to even tickle the level of his idol, the former Flamengo player now intends to honor this comparison by working to prove itself. "Now I have the honor to get to the top of football at Real Madrid when I'm only 18. I want to prove to the coach and my teammates that I'm ready ( …) I came here to work and become a good player of Real Madrid ", so he added.
Real Madrid has spent 45 million euros to enlist, in addition to having lost his star in the person of Cristiano Ronaldo now at Juventus Turin, the Brazilian prodigy can in any case expect to resent a certain pressure around its progress, the Madrid public not being always patient, even with its young protected.
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