The young promise, besides helping in marking, set up a promising counterattack and made good offspring on the right in Fish victory over Flamengo
It was the highlight of the match at the goal of the triumph of the over, 1-0, on Wednesday. But attention in the game also turned to the official debut of the striker, son of the former player. The promise of Santos is 17 years old and showed personality by being triggered in the match by coach Cleber Xavier, 19 minutes into the second half. He entered the field in the place of Barreal. The young man, besides helping to mark, set up a promising counterattack and made good offspring on the right. Robinho Jr. just failed to go through goalkeeper Rossi in a dispute in midfield, who could have originated a great chance of goal.
“Robinho showed in training what he showed in the friendly. He has quality. He needed a game on the right and it was the option he had. He wanted a guy for one, something different, the game required. We needed to kill or die. Decisive in Santos’s victory, Neymar praised Robinho Jr. on the way out of the field. Shirt 10 highlighted the similarity of the young man with his father, also revealed by the São Paulo club.
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“He has a lot of potential. Similar to his father is very big, no matter what his father is going through. The boy has a very good, very strong head, it is not easy to be in his place. It is not easy to debut this way, with the pressure that bears his name. He is there and I’m to help. He is a good heart boy. Robinho Jr. had already acted at Santos friendly with the Railway Sports last week. The Santos team won 3-1. Cleber Xavier had listed some of the athlete’s characteristics.
“It’s a boy who remembers his father’s way of playing, but he’s a left -handed. It’s very skillful, has a very good ending. It’s not a player who is terrified inside the area. It’s a boy who has a very big future. Also remembers Neymar for the biotype, skinny and small,” said the coach. The Santos promise has a contract with the club until the end of next year. The player is close to extending the bond by 2030. Robinho Jr. has already received a proposal from Grêmio, but Santos managed to keep the young man in the team.
*With information from Estadão Content
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