ALWAYS FAITHFUL TO THE 'CANARINHA'
Raphinha did not play with the Italian team to emulate Ronaldinho
Published:2/11/2022 - 12:27h
Updated:2/11/2022 - 12:27h
Raphinha had the opportunity to be part of the Italian team when he was still a member of the Leeds ranks. However, the winger was firm in his desire to follow in the footsteps of one of his idols.
In the last years, has been common to see to several players defend the colours of national selections that do not correspond to the ones of the countries in which they were born, by distinct reasons. In the case of the Brazilians, is frequent to see players of the nation amazónica being part of other combined, also partly thanks to the difficulty that supposes recalar in the 'Scratch'.
The selection of Italy has adopted to players like Emerson Palmieri, Rafael Toloi or Jorginho, the one who lately has sounded like option for the FC Barcelona. But a name more could add to the 'Squadra Azzurra' in the past. It treats of Raphinha, the today extreme of the Barcelona team, to the one who tried to convince to play for the four times champion of the world, but his decision was firm.
For then, the attacker was a member of the rows of the Leeds United and had the Italian nationality by part of his father. However, Raphinha always had like one of his big referents to Ronaldinho Gaúcho, champion of the world with Brazil in 2002 and very near to his family. Now, it is near of his big opportunity to debut in the Glass of the World.
Thus, it did not add to the group of Brazilians that opted for dressing the elastic of the selection of Italy, champion of the past edition of the Eurocopa and one of the big absent in Qatar 2022 after neither be present in the edition contested in Russia, a combined that contested his last appointment mundialista for the last time in Brazil 2014 and will have to expect until the following cycle clasificatorio.
Raphinha, in a big favourite to the title
Now, the Barcelona forward directs to his first participation in the maximum tournament to level of selections like part of one of the big applicants to the title. The 'Canarinha' the first in the ránking FIFA and will look for to embroider the sixth star in his T-shirt, a title that does not reach from does more than 20 years when it consecrated in Korea-Japan 2002, casually a World-wide also contested in Asian territory.
