Alert: The text below is the description of an excerpt from the documentary “Baila, Vini” and contains spoilers.
This Thursday (15), Netflix launched “Baila, Vini”, a production that tells the success and overcoming trajectory of the Brazilian striker.
The documentary begins by addressing the difficult times in adapting a 18 -year -old to a “new world” in Spain. No, the player had a complicated beginning and ended up being “relegated” to the merengues team B.
Criticism against Vinicius Júnior began to appear everywhere, even inside the meringue cast.
In 2020, in the Real Madrid match against Borussia Monchengladbach for, Frenchman Karim Benzema was caught talking to Ferland Mendy and asking the back not to touch the ball to Vini, because he was “disturbing and playing against”.
🎙💬 Benzema: “He does anything. Do not play with him, he plays against us” ►
— RMC Sport (@RMCsport)
At the time, Vini Jr. fans broke into Benzema’s social networks asking for respect to the Brazilian star.
In “Baila, Vini”, Karim admits that he said the sentence, but did not give much relevance to the theme.
“These are football things, normal things. He’s like a younger brother, so I can say these things. For me, in this game, he didn’t do well. I was angry with what he did on the field, because I know it’s better than that,” said the striker who currently plays at Al-Ittihad.
In Netflix’s documentary, Vini recalls the case and reinforces the friendship built with Benzema in Real Madrid.
“Benzema talked to me and stated that I had said that because I was a ‘warm head’, because I knew my potential. Since my first day here (in the real), he was the one who helped me most,” he said.
Successful partnership
After the troubled beginning, Benzema and Vini understood themselves very well on the field, stacking cups with the Real Madrid shirt.
Together for the merengues, the duo played 192 matches, with 122 wins, 34 draws and only 36 losses.
Karim Benzema and Vinicius won 8 titles running the Madrid attack. Among them, the Champions League in the 2021/2022 season.
Details of “Baila, Vini”
It was almost 305 hours recorded by the production team, not including file material, many provided by the player’s own team, who documented it for years.
The content of the documentary had six months of pre-assembly and six months of assembly. Over the course of a year and a half, there were 107 nights in total and the recordings ended in December 2024.
The production had 58 respondents, including former players Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos, as well as companions of Real Madrid such as Rodrygo, Courtois and Bellingham.
Netflix accompanied Vini Jr. in seven countries: Brazil, Spain, England, the United States, Qatar, Morocco and France.
At the end of the documentary, fans of the player feel more intimate from the athlete, having access to the environment and routine and an idol of world football, something we could not imagine for a few years.
“Baila, Vini” is the story of evolution, transformation and success of those who carry the flag and name of Brazil around the world, with a growing thirst for victory.
It is the largest shirt 7 of Brazilian football today. And if you cry, send audio.
BAILA, Vini. The life documentary and the most challenging season of Vini Jr.’s career arrives on May 15th. ⚽️💎
— netflixbrasil (@NetflixBrasil)
