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Football is a blessing! Unfortunately for me my folks made me study!

He's only a little short of a World-class player. Seeing him play I always get the impression that he chooses the wong option to finish the play 9 out 10 times, otherwise he's superb.

That was the best EPL game of the season so far! Amazing football from both teams. First full NUFC game I saw this season, good to see Wilson playing well again and I really liked Pope, seems way better than Dubravka

There are regional variations, I don't know about brittish accents, but Brazil is as large as the usa, pronunciation change more in the rhythm people speak and in sounds of "s" "de" "te" and slangs more than anything

You sir are right. Btw thank you, This page of this topic discussing pronunciaton made me laugh. Bonus tip. Joelinton should sound about the same as Joelington, it's the same name, just the brasilianized version. You guys would not believe how many "Uóxiton"(whasington) and co. we have in brazil I talked about vitor roque in this thread last week and yesterday he scoread the goal that put the team to the semi-finals of the copa libertadores. 17years old and 12 goals as a pro (he's the 2005 born player with most goals in the world already) , this kid is insane!

And is playing in the same club There's a goal.com article about him as well. https://www.goal.com/en/news/vitor-roque-brazilian-football-new-ronaldo/blt3c8f7e0f143fcb33

Just gonna leave a suggestion. This kid is 17 years old, scoring goals like this on the brazilian 1st division, already scored at libertadores too! Yesterday won MOTM as well. You guys should scout him ASAP, because city has fernandinho playing with him! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLmKv7zZcp0

I've been saying this for at least 2 years now, well, one can hope that Tite will see the light and accept "The Truth". He's better than Fred in every single metric, I think Fred is a little bit Phisically Stronger, but on the rest there's no comparsion.

I honestly thought he was a CB, saw some highlights, seems like a good player, but I haven't seen anyone talking about him online or between my friends yet

State leagues are regional leagues that usually go from january to march, most really big clubs use mixed os reserve squads before the play-offs (my team usually goes full U23 for the regionals) except in Sao Paulo where it's actually pretty competitive. There's also the Brazilian Cup where most clubs no matter the division (some without) play, thers a North East Cup and we used to have a Rio-SP and a South-Minas Cup (whole south and Minas Gerias top teams) but except for the NE Cup the others were discontinued.

Not even on the stadium I would have a better experience watching that goal!

Yes, thats "Felipão" on the bench! We got only 2 losses since he came in, one in his debut 14 games unbeaten, another loss and 2 wins. I never thought I'd see him coaching my team, much less bringing this kind of performance 20 yeas after the "penta". About Igor Gomes I have seen only 2 full games of Sao Paulo this year, he's a good CB but at those games didn't look like nothing special to me. Thats David Terans or King Terans as we call him, he's a Uruguay international and last year was the most decisive foreign player in the BR League. I saw that goal yesterday in the most insane way possible, was having a interval quickie with the ms. and when she came off of my lap I looked at the tv and he was making the 1st touch for that goal 1st division is 20 clubs with the last 4 being relegated and 4 coming from 2nd division. There's no conferences or anything like that, if you are lets say from Manaus (Amazonas) and you have a game in Porto Alegre (farthest capital south in Brazil) you're travelling(Most big clubs in Brazil are in SouthEast and South). Also, that's the big difference between European and South American football besides the money, here the travels are INSANE, specially when you face teams in high altitudes, La Paz is like 7km above sea level, in Brazil alone you have cities where this time of the year the temperature is something like 5ºC and others like where I live with 30ºC on the same country.

Fernandinho played his first 20 minutes back in Brazil yesterday and got an assist, he's still fucking genius! We don't have this kind of midfielder in the BR League, he got some passes between the lines to his teammates that they received looking really surprised Fernandinho's assist for the 4th goal at 6:41, the 3rd goal at 3:43 is just amazingly ridiculous amazing game to have him back!

There's a 17y old who's playing like fire in Brazil, his name is Vitor Roque, you guys should watch his development closely, he's scoring goals at the 1st division and Libertadores (also is a starter for Brazil's U-20 who just won the U-20 world cup), is fast, strong, good on the and ball big games do not seem to scary him. He actually was the best player for his team in the round of 16 in the Libertadores counting both legs. Some people in Brazil are already talking about taking him to Qatar like we did to Ronaldo in 94. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfpIxeN58HM (tried to embed the video but failed a guess)

if he and the Godfather met, I think it would end with Marlon Brando and the Godfather as two separate entities kissing his hand. He's as nasty and cunning as they come, but no one can argue his results.

Fernandinho is back home!

I'd go for Antony instead of Raphinha, both are great and antony is younger. Both would be amazing signings for the toons

You're being too generous to Simeone, his game isn't cut for Simeone playstile. Lodi lost a lot of credit with Tite due to the vaccine issue and the Copa America error, but he was benching Alex Sandro and being the most atacking player on the left flank for Brazil when neymar was injured. As I've said, for me, he's one of the best atacking LB's in the world, good skill on the ball, pace and some pinpoint crosses. He was starting for my club when he was only 19 and became the best LB on the brazilian league as a 20year old.

Lodi was Bruno's best friend in football before Paqueta. I came here just to comment about this rumor, people are saying in Brazil that he's going to sign for the toons this week. I think it's an amazing signing. He's not as solid in defense as Targett but is one of the best attacking left backs in the world. EDIT: Your comment is 100% on the mark @Flip

Love to see how this thread and his game are evolving. My first post here will never get old! For those who say you'll get UCL football in 24/25 I think the toons will be a big conterder for that ucl spot on the 23/24 season already, if not next year thanks to Howe.

Should I quote my first post on this thread again? I haven't been able to see him play for the Toons for a while since most games have been on working hours, i'd say he's reachead what we brazilians call "otô patamá", wich would translate to "anotha' leva' ", he was always an amazaing midfielder but I never thought he would be at this level already at the EPL, he's dominating top level games and scoring like it's nothing, he's literally reaching for his full potential at such a young age. It's superb confidence, he's been increasing that skill for years now. I was an official researcher at FM and FIFA when I was younger, the leagues have a total cap of points that can be assigned to the whole league, that's why top leagues have better players in every game.

You'll only have to wait till the world cup for that

I'm just gonna quote my first post on this thread

What a finish and I noticed how every game there's this kind celebration from a toon player, they clearly love the club.

What a pass for miggy. He's showing his class way earlier than I expected and his game will improve even more playing in the EPL regularly.