Surfer was greeted with a party at the airport and paraded in a fire car through the streets of the capital of Santa Catarina
After winning the title of EM Fiji, the surfer landed this Sunday (7) in. He was received with a party at the airport and paraded in firefighters through the streets of the capital of Santa Catarina. “Now that the record is really falling,” said the 29 -year -old surfer. “Being here makes this feeling even stronger.”
“This title has a special weight because it is the first coming from southern Brazil and serves as a motivation for a whole generation of surfers,” said the curitibano based in Florianópolis. “We already had great references in São Paulo and the Northeast, with Italo Ferreira, and this shows that it is possible, that there is a way to go here too,” said Dora.
Before him, Gabriel Medina (2014, 2018 and 2021), Adriano de Souza (2015), Italo Ferreira (2019) and Filipe Toledo (2022 and 2023) won the WSL title. The eighth achievement of Brazil came after Yago hit the post twice. In 2023, he even went to the WSL finals, but was fifth. Already last year, Yago was out of the final. He ended in sixth. Posters with support messages and masks with the face of the Brazilian surfer were seen at the airport to receive Yago, who distributed autographs and posed for photos. He uses Lycra with number 9 for being a fan of Ronaldo Phenomenon and wanted to be a soccer player.
*With information from Estadão Content
