Pep Guardiola, Manchester City coach, classified Matheus Nunes as “one of the best players in the world” after the game with Sporting, for the Champions, played on Tuesday night, in Alvalade, counting for the 1st leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League, which the English won 0-5.
A gentleman praise, in fact, a wink of one of the most respected coaches in the world in relation to a player who has signed an absolutely fabulous ascending path, knowing that even in the 2017/2018 season he walked around the districts with the jersey from Ericeirense and worked in a pastry shop.
Matheus Nunes, who learned about A BOLA yesterday, registered and liked, naturally, the Spanish coach’s complimentary words, but those who thought that the Portuguese-Brazilian, 23, showed some sign of amazement, would be disappointed. None of that. The person who told A BOLA was Humberto Salvador, the player’s godfather and a man who has always followed Matheus Nunes’ career. It was he who, by the way, took the player home after the match with Manchester City.
Guardiola’s praise was, of course, the topic of conversation on the short car ride – Matheus Nunes now lives alone in Lisbon to be closer to the Academy and the stadium… – and at that moment Humberto Salvador realized that Matheus Nunes was still be… Matheus Nunes. «Matheus is a kid with his feet firmly on the ground, he knows that football is the moment», he said, highlighting, above all, the boy’s heartburn after the rout suffered: «I had my head screwed up, the result was heavy, hard.”
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