Estevaothe latest young promise of Brazilian football, scored two goals this Saturday in the 5-0 victory of Palmeiras about Cuiabá in Liga a day after being called up for the first time with his country’s senior team. The 17-year-old winger, already in talks with English club Chelsea, scored two goals in five dazzling first-half minutes.
The first of them was a penalty and the second was a trademark play: starting from the right, entering the area between two rivals and shooting at the short post. The other three goals for the São Paulo team were scored by Murilo, Maurício and Felipe Anderson.
Palmeiras continues in the noble zone of the classification with 44 points after 24 days. The lead continues, however, in the hands of Botafogo (46), who will visit Bahía this Sunday. As a teenager, Estevao was already a starter in the team led by Portuguese Abel Ferreira.
On Friday, Brazilian coach Dorival Júnior called him up for the first time for the senior team, with a goal in the two September matches of the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup against Ecuador and Paraguay. Then the coach said that Estevao is a player who is “evolving and showing very good things.” “I hope he has a brilliant career,” but “we have to be patient with these kids,” he said.
Brazil faces Ecuador on September 6 at the Couto Pereira stadium in Curitiba, and four days later it faces Paraguay at the Defensores del Chaco stadium in Asunción.
Source: La Verdad
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