Vitor Roque is experiencing a new peak in his career, playing for Palmeiras. Hired in February, the striker took a while to get into gear on his return to Brazilian football. “Tigrinho” spent the first 12 games without scoring, which raised doubts in the press and fans regarding the player’s quality.
The 20-year-old striker was still carrying the weight of not working out in Europe.
Today, the number 9 has scored 15 goals in the Brazilian Championship and 18 in the season. In addition, he has five assists and he was
“I have a hard time praising my players. They get excited and then… But he was the ‘Ugly Duckling’ who became a swan. Many of you helped him be the ‘Ugly Duckling‘. If he listened and believed 90% of what you said, he would stop being a player. The luck is that he knows who his coach is, the luck is that his coach knows how the dynamics work and took care of him”, said Abel Ferreira, coach of Palmeiras in a press conference.
on Thursday night (6). In the first, he had great assistance from . Afterwards, it received a major release from Raphael Veiga. Coldly, he covered Gabriel Brazão to enlarge. For this reason, shirt 9 praised his teammates.
“The same people who criticized him are now saying that he is the best player in the world. What I do, as an educator, teacher and coach that I am, is to help him in the best way I can. But who is the real protagonist, who makes it happen, is him”, continued the Portuguese.
“We gave time for the feathers to change and for people to realize over time that, really, this player is more than what he showed at foreign clubs, because he certainly didn’t have the follow-up and care he had here”, concluded the coach.
