Johnny Cardoso, a ‘Yankee’ with a Brazilian imprint

The midfielder Johnny Cardososigned by Atlético de Madrid In Betis For the next five seasons, he was an American by birth, but the Brazilian in the imprint on his game, not in the bucket Brazil With a few months and there he became a footballer with mirrors like Paolo Falcao, Legend of Porto Alegre International, The Rome and the ‘Canarinha’ of Tele Santana dazzling in 1982 World Cup in Spain With names such as Zico, Socrates, Eder, Junior either Toninho Cerezo.

Johnny Cardoso23 years old, reached the Spain In the winter market two periods ago, from International The Brazilian, with him won in 2019, and made it as a medium -term alternative to the Midfielder of Argentine Guido RodríguezAlthough an ankle injury -because Sáenz Peña accelerated its integration with eleven holders of Betis and the upbringing of Chile’s hand growth Manuel Pellegrini.

Is not the one of Cardoso A fantasy or filigree football, but on the clock managing the time matches and the spaces based on the placement, tactical sense, always in place to cut and give it to someone you see like him, the virtues that decorated the player who came as a promise in the future and that, because he was on January 21, 2023 BarcelonaHe said he was there as implies.

And is that the midfielder born Denville TownshipIn New Jersey, He reached Benito Villamarín With filmmaking, without the need for adaptation and with a sense of game and an intensity that, after 65 games a season and a half in Betis, led him to be one of the most visible transitions in Verdiblanca’s history with other historical such as those of those Luis del Sol, Rafael Gordillo, Joaquín Sánchez And, more recently, Pau López, Joaquín SánchezThe Argentine Giovani Lo Celso either Luiz Felipe.

Joao Lucas de Souza Cardoso Born in USA And he returned with a few months of life to BrazilIn CriciumIn the state of Santa Catarinawhere he grew up and became an animated footballer of his father, who began to call him with him Johnny That remained and where he got Betis From International.

That is where he drinks FalcaoBrazil’s legend of a golden generation dazzling in World Cup in Spainwhich despite staying in the semifinals, there are still those who remember the football that is deployed of Socrates, Zico, Toninho Cerezo, Eder, Leandro either Junioramong others.

With the school of International, Cardoso He delays his position in the middle of the country VilamarínAll very different invoices though all well.

In shaping the new mattress player there is also a lot to do Eduardo Germán Coudet, Former coach of Celtic and International and technical AlavésAs he acknowledged on his arrival Europe Johnny Cardoso The paper -highlighting of ‘have his game’Chacho‘, American Valitor for his friendship Pellegrini.

The competitive gene of ‘4’ VerdiblanCo wins the benefits as he plays matches and gains confidence in his football against more than fifty thousand viewers who usually meet in Benito Villamarín, a pressure that is not all newcomers Europe They know how to manage and assimilate.

Committed and focused on the reason of betic until the final of Conference League Lost in front of him Chelsea English, the midfielder of Denville He expanded his contract until June 30, 2030, date up to which, in an operation that is being exposed to nearly 30 million euros between fixed and variables, the player will play with Atlético de Madridwhere the Betis The signing of Rodrigo Riquelme.

Johnny Cardoso It also has Italy’s nationality and does not conquer an additional community area, twenty -times international companion USASub-23 compiled the debut in 2019 and in full, in November one year later, to a friendly before Welsh.