The front Endrick, Palmeiras player but signed by real Madrid for 2024, he was summoned this Friday to integrate the Brazilian team Under-20 who will play a series of friendlies in Spain before their participation in the 2023 World Cup.
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) announced that the team will be concentrated between April 15 and 27 in the Spanish city of Jerez de la Frontera, where they will play friendlies against Dominican Republic, Iraq and a rival to be defined between Uzbekistan and Senegal.
Regarding the team that won the title of the category in the South American Championship played in Colombia, the coach ramon menezes called up seven new players, led by Endrik, who is a member of Palmeiras’ professional squad.
In addition to the 16-year-old striker, the winger Vinicius Tobias (Real Madrid-ESP), the defenders Kaiky Melo (Almería-ESP), Michel (Palmeiras) and Beraldo (Sao Paulo) and the forwards Giovani (Pameiras) and Marcos Leonardo (Santos).
The midfielders Marlon Gomes and Andrey Santos, from Vasco da Gama, and the striker Victor Roque, from Athletico Paranaense, who made up the trio of figures for the title won in Colombia, will also be in the three friendlies.
Vítor Roque was recently in the senior team when the interim coach, who is currently ramon menezesdecided to call him up for the friendly in which Brazil fell 2-1 against local Morocco.
The local press criticized the absence of endrick in the senior team called for that friendly, the first after participating in the Qatar World Cup 2022, when Brazil was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Croatia.
He Sub 20 world It is scheduled to be played between May 20 and June 11 in Indonesia, but the draw for the tournament was suspended by FIFA after a letter from the governor of the island of Bali, one of the venues, asking to veto Israel’s participation. .
The FIFA It has not yet commented on the ratification of Indonesia as the venue or the designation of another country to host the tournament.
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