The quarry of Sports of Portugalone of the most prestigious in the world, has a new pearl, Geovany Quendaa 17-year-old winger playing for the first team. was summoned by Robert Martinez and can dethrone Fur as the youngest player to debut in the Portuguese senior team
Among the fans of the Lisbon club, many are predicting that he could be the heir Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Figowhich was also forged in this club.
Going for Futre’s record
Yes Robert Martinez he puts it on the field in matches Croatia or Scotland (September 5 and 8), Geovany Quenda He will become the youngest player in history to play for Portugal, surpassing the record currently held by Atlético de Madrid legend Paulo Futre.
Quenda He was 17 years and four months old, while Futre debuted in Portugal at 17 years and six months, in a match against Finland in September 1983.
And both under the same circumstances, because of that time Paulo Futre -also a winger- has just been promoted to Sporting’s first team after training at the same youth academy that will eventually host Geovany Quenda.
Great game against Athletic
Quenda is the revelation of the preseason Sportswhere his exhibitions, such as the one held before the Athletic Bilbaohe earned a place in the first team.
Under the technician’s command Ruben Amorimthe Portuguese attacker replaces the left wing with the right and becomes one of the pillars of the sportinguista attack.
These performances did not go unnoticed by the coach of Portugalspanish Robert Martinezwhich, when describing it, was categorized: “Geovany Quenda lives in imbalance.”
Furthermore, he “likes one-on-one situations”, so it will be “interesting to see how he performs at the international level” in his matches. Portugal compete against Croatia and Scotland at the League of Nations, on September 5 and 8, respectively.
Shy before Cristiano Ronaldo
These days, during the concentration of Portugalthe young winger shares a dressing room with other former Lions youth players with similar qualities, Cristiano Ronaldo and Rafael Leão.
But in her first contact with Cristiano, she was replaced by shame.
“Just now I saw the 17-year-old boy Quenda, I approached him and said: ‘Hey, player, are you back in the game? (the classic against Porto)’ And he was embarrassed (laughs),” said he. christian in a press conference on Monday.
Franco Cervi, his idol
Geovany Quendaborn in the former Portuguese colony of Guinea Bissau, was in Cristiano Ronaldo Academy -Sporting’s quarry- where he arrived after his time at their biggest rival, Benfica.
Then, his idol is Argentine Franco Cervi, a former Benfiquista and currently at Celta de Vigo, as he revealed after being voted the best player in an under-11 tournament.
From Murcia to the absolute
The business card of Geovany Quenda took place in Murcia in September last year, where he represented the Portuguese under-17 team in the Pinatar Tournament, which was won by the ‘quinas’ team.
The success was highlighted in the country in part by his goal in the final against Morocco (6-0), when he reached the goal from the middle of the field and dribbled over almost the entire Moroccan team. They compared it to what Diego Armando Maradona did in the 1986 World Cup.
He rose to prominence again at the U-17 Euro Cup held Cyprus last June, when he was included in the best eleven of the competition, where Portugal is a finalist.
Source: La Verdad
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