Real Madrid forward Vinicius Júnior praised this Friday, after the 0-5 victory over South Korea, in a friendly match played in Seoul, at Brazil coach Carlo Ancelottiwhom he referred to as “the coach who gave him the most confidence.”
“He was always the best coach I ever had, He was the coach who gave me the most confidence, the one I played best with. He has arrived here to the national team, I have already played three games with him and I have managed to score two goals and give an assist,” said the Madrid winger in the mixed zone of the World Cup Stadium.
Vinicius was the author of the fifth goal of a ‘Canarinha’ that swept South Korea with a little hand that was completed, with two doubles, by Rodrygo, who is coming off an irregular start to the season with Real Madrid, and Estevao, the pearl of Chelsea 18 years old.
Vini He also comes from suffering at the beginning of the season with the merengue team, which changed Ancelotti for Xabi Alonso at the end of last season. Under the orders of the Spanish coach, the former player of the Flamengo He has been a substitute in some games for technical reasons, although in his last appearances he made a leap in level that has placed him back in the starting eleven.
Vinicius also told reporters that the 0-5 win over South Korea gives “confidence” to the entire team facing the 2026 World Cup, which starts in eight months in Canada, United States and Mexico. “We have to prepare as quickly as possible because there is very little left,” he warned.
He insisted that the arrival of Ancelottiwith which Vini reached his best version in Madrid, he has made it possible for the team’s game to evolve positively. “We want to continue like this to have an excellent World Cup,” he stated.
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In addition, he highlighted the importance of “pressing well and defending better” to move forward in the games. In this sense, praised Casemiro, his former teammate at Madrid and that he has returned to the national team under the guidance of Ancelotti, for “giving greater support to the midfield”, and to his teammate in the white box Eder Militao. “Our best game always has to be the next one because we are evolving”Vini asserted. Brazil will face Japan in Tokyo in four days, which will be its second preparatory friendly for the 2026 World Cup.
