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Saturday, October 10, 2020, 10:39 a. m. Tottenham Hotspur
Last week Carlos Vinicius finished his transfer from Benfica to number 17, but what can we expect from our new boy on the field?
After the striker traded Lisbon for London, we turned to Tiago Peres Costa of Sport TV, the Premier League broadcast rights holder in Portugal, to learn a little more about our new Brazilian striker Array.
Tiago Peres Costa: “When I played in palmeiras’ youth league, he was a central definisher but towards the end of his tenure there, the coach asked him to play in the front. It was a great idea, but he started scoring, aiming and therefore has become a striker. It’s a wonderful story.
“In 2017 he moved to Portugal to play for Real Sport Clube. He finished his first season as the league’s second most level-headed scorer with 19 passes passed, 20 in all competitions, but the club was demoted to third place after completing the last. So it had a big effect because it’s not okay for a club demoted to third department to have one of the most sensitive scorers in the league. After that notice took effect in Portugal, he was bought through Napoli in Italy, but never played an official match there, so he returned to Portugal on loan in 2018 to play in the first department of Rio Ave. He has played 20 games and scored 14 passes. passals: some other big ones have an effect on. After Rio Ave he went to Monaco in Ligue 1, France, where he did not go very well – he only scored two passes – but Benfica, one of the biggest clubs in Portugal, bought him because the numbers he had in the past registered in Portugal they were incredible. Last year, in one season there, he scored 24 passes and thirteen assists in all competitions.
He has a nickname here in Portugal: ‘Vinigoal’. We also knew him as Vinicius, we didn’t call him Carlos, with Vinicius we called him ‘Vinigoal’ because he scored a lot of goals in the groups he played for in Portugal, so he’ll be smart for Tottenham enthusiasts to start calling him ‘Vinigoal’, I think he’d like to do it!»
Tiago Peres Costa: “He is a forward, a number nine, a forward with mobility and has a right left foot. One of the things he can do is his frames with his right foot, but last year his header evolved. He scored many goals with his header When he arrived in Portugal, he was not very smart with his head, but now this component of his game has evolved very well.
“He is 25 years old. He is very tall, he strongly opposes defenders, he can very well take and hold the ball and mix with the players around him to get them into the zone. He is very smart with his left foot, he hits the ball very good with her. “
Tiago Peres Costa: “He is a very humble guy but, although Benfica is the biggest club in terms of history in Portugal, he arrived and was the club’s most sensible goalscorer in its first season, a huge impact.
“He’s a guy with smart confidence. Now that he has a Portuguese coach who can speak to him in his language with José Mourinho and his coaching staff, I think he can improve, especially with the speed and intensity of the Premier League. He’s a coaching player and now he’s an adult. When Harry Kane wants to rest, Vinicius can touch the component smoothly. Whether in the Europa League or even in a difficult match in the Premier League . . . let’s say that if Tottenham draws 0-0 with 20 minutes to the end, he can play perfectly with Kane and it will be a difficult hit.
“One point in his favor is that he will not be the main forward for Spurs. He will work alongside one of the most productive forwards in the world in the form of Harry Kane, so we can say that he can only get better. With the players he offers He attends, I think it will be easy for him to score goals for Tottenham. One handicap is that he does not speak English very well, so he will still have to strengthen the language of the field, that of goals, he knows that very well. Well, I think that in the coming seasons, if he continues to improve, he may be called up to the Brazilian team. “