Xerém is the training center for the basic categories of Fluminense. And, for years, it has become synonymous with talent training. Without a doubt, he is one of the best in Brazilian football because technical concepts and a taste for good football prevail over physicality.
And, in this 2021 still pandemic, the Rio Tricolor shows its chest because it is the season in which the first team has used more players emerged from the base: they are 25 ‘Moleques de Xerém’. When he still has 10 official matches to lower the curtain, the 2022 mark has already been surpassed when the 20 players left the quarry were reached.
The commitment to the base is not the easy way out of the economic crisis but a determined and sustainable bet of the club. “I think the greatest added value we have today is the direct connection between professional football and grassroots football. And to this we must add the good training of players that Fluminense already has in its history, something that is recognized in Brazil and around the world “, says the executive director of football, Paulo Angioni.
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Xerém is an export factory. It is where, for example, the madridista came out Marcelo, or Gerson, now starting with Tite and playing for Olympique de Marseille. In this 2021, Fluminense has sold Manchester City one of its jewels, Kayky, To who They have named Manchester City the left-handed Neymar.
His last big reveal is the striker, John kennedy, 19, who over the weekend became the hero of the Tri-color triumph (3-1) at Fla-Flu, scoring a double. In this encounter, Mark lined up six homegrown players.
It is a victory that keeps Fluminense alive in the fight to access the 2022 Libertadores squares, but that had very serious consequences for his eternal rival. Flamengo (which has two games less) fell 13 points behind the leader, At. Mineiro, practically saying goodbye to your title choices. The Brasileirao can be seen for sentencing this weekend with a Flamengo-At Mineiro at the Maracana.
Looking ahead to the 2022 season that begins in January, the Flu sports management has set the goal that half of the squad is made up of footballers from Xerém. “If we succeed, it would be a historical fact in the current context and it would show that our policy is achieving very positive effects,” he says. Paulo Angioni.
