Rafael Leão, who this season already has four goals in nine games for Milan’s Italians, was called up for the first time in the National Team and should make his debut this Saturday against Qatar.
It was evaluated as follows by Fernando Santos: «It has arrived now and has adapted well. Rafael’s call was more for what he is doing at the club and not for his path in the youth teams. Of course we know this route, but at Milan we’ve been seeing it for over a year and it has a different potential from the others. He is a player of the future and now we have to see him evolve.”
Rafael Leão is both a left-winger and an area man; physically he has the conditions to do so, and he has a goalscoring instinct and will surely fight for a space that, especially before Cristiano Ronaldo, was seen as a limitation of the National Team, even though the performances of players like Nuno Gomes and are so often unfairly ignored. , above all, Pauleta; or even Hélder Postiga and Hugo Almeida, as well as André Silva.
All of these, after all, played with Ronaldo in the Seleção (after 2003, therefore, although some were called before that) and have or had a good relationship between the number of games and goals.
Rafael Leão, a versatile forward, is a new hope for attacking. As long as there is Ronaldo, anyone else will remain in his shadow. But the team is starting to think about the next…
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