Brazil Starting this January 23, he hopes to take advantage of the base of the two teams that won last year’s titles, strengthened by the forward. Endrick, Palmeiras player and already linked to Real Madrid, to try to win one of the places in the Olympic Games offered in the Venezuelan Pre-Olympic.
The selector Ramon Menezes He called some of the players with whom he won the South American U-20 Championship title in February last year in Colombia and gold at the 2023 Pan American Games in Chile.
It is a strong and well-known team, where the coach considers it will live to fulfill Brazil’s dream of guaranteeing an Olympic quota to try for their third consecutive gold, after the achievements in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2020.
The base of the summoned team has Pan American champions like goalkeeper Mycael, defenders Arthur Chaves, Michel and Patryck; the creative Gabriel Pirani and the forwards Guilherme Biro and Marquinhos, who won gold in Santiago after 36 years of fasting.
But the base had already been built, when Brazil won the South American U-20 title, with outstanding players also called up for the Pre-Olympic such as midfielders. Andrey Santos, Marlon Gomes and Alexsander.
Of the 23 summoned (out of a total of 80 observed), 20 are already under Menezes’ command and 19 are champions in Colombia or Chile or both countries.
To this group are now added two of the new revelations of Brazilian football that the coach was unable to take advantage of due to the refusal of his clubs to give them up.
It’s about the forwardsby Endrick, Brazilian champion at Palmeiras last year and who is expected at Real Madrid in July; and John KennedyCopa Libertadores champion with Fluminense and scorer of the title goal against Boca Juniors.
Then Endrick and John Kennedyand the talented figure of the team is the steering wheel Alexander, Libertadores champions with Fluminense; the attacker Gabriel PecVasco’s top scorer last year and signed by the Los Angeles Galaxy, and the midfielder Mauriciowho is now a regular starter in the Internacional professional team.
But in addition to putting two outstanding forwards in the team, Menezes will have the mission to replace some of the players as 7 of the 23 players he called up for the Pre-Olympic are not on loan by their clubs.
Among those that Brazil wants to bring to Venezuela and will be conspicuous by their absence stand out Vitor Roque -recently joined Barcelona- and Vinicius Tobias -which Real Madrid did not give-, as well as BEraldo, Danilo, Savinho, Robert Renan and Marcos Leonardo.
It’s MenezesHe attributes his only setback last year to difficult negotiations with the clubs, when Brazil were eliminated by Israel in the quarterfinals of the U-20 World Cup.
The coach affirmed that the expectations for the Pre-Olympic are very high, as well as the responsibility of Brazil for being two-time Olympic champions, and he believes that it will go far with “a very promising generation that is proving that “.
Endrick He got the starting position since the team’s training started on January 8 in Teresópolis, while John Kennedy had to get the training position.
So also Menezes has revealed, Brazil will debut on January 23 against Bolivia with a team that will have Mycael in goal; Khellven, Arthur Chaves, Michel and Kaiki Bruno in defense; Bruno Gomes, Andrey, Marquinhos and Maurício in the middle of the field; and John Kennedy and Endrick in front
Source: La Verdad
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