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Liverpool recently caught a young Brazilian goalkeeper, his name is Marcelo Pitaluga. Pitaluga’s presence was inseparable from his brother’s recommendation Alisson Becker.
Liverpool have to pay 1.8 million pounds or around Rp 34.2 billion to Fluminense to get Pitaluga. Before this, no one had ever heard of the name Pitaluga considering that he had recently had a career in the green field
At only 17 years of age, Pitaluga is indeed the second goalkeeper at Fluminense, Muriel Becker’s reserve. Yes, if you are familiar with Muriel’s last name, he is the older brother of Alisson Becker, Liverpool’s main goalkeeper.
Muriel only joined Fluminense in 2019 after playing for Internacional for a long time and was on loan at several local Brazilian clubs. Well, Muriel then promoted Pitaluga to Alisson.
Alisson then gave the recommendation to Liverpool goalkeeping coach John Achterberg and manager Juergen Klopp. It seems that Klopp and his coaching staff have followed Pitaluga’s development since he helped Brazil win the U-17 World Cup last year.
Pitaluga, born December 20, 2002, has never played in the senior team in his career and has only appeared at the under-16 and under-17 levels a few times.
“I saw him for the first time at the World Cup. You look at all the goalkeepers there and also their age,” Achterberg was quoted as saying Daily Mail.
“You see that he was a year younger than the average player in the Brazilian squad at that time, then you think it is strange, because naturally the two goalkeepers are the same age, but if you look at goalkeepers who are younger then he must have a special ability. , “he continued,
“He’s playing for Fluminense, we’ve seen some of his games, other goalkeeping coaches have seen him too – Jack Robinson and academy coaches Mark Moriss and Neil Edwards. Of course I also speak to the manager and the rest of the coaching staff here.”
Like a tit for tat, Klopp and the entire coaching staff loved Pitaluga’s performance and he will immediately join the Liverpool academy in Kirkby. We don’t know if Pitaluga will get a chance to play in the first team.
Despite some pressure from Liverpool fans who wanted Marcelo Pitaluga to be tried in the main, following Adrian San Miguel’s poor performance when Liverpool were slaughtered 2-7 by Aston Villa. Moreover Alisson had to miss 6 weeks because of a shoulder injury.
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