The tiny indoor football fields were too small for the ravenous offensive ambition that he revealed as a child and maintains in his adolescence. At only 18 years old, Kaio Jorge follow in the footsteps of Skin and Neymar with the desire to win the fourth Liberators cup for the surprising Santos.
The promising forward of the ‘Fish‘he lashes out like a revelation. As a child, he was tired of dribbling and scoring on the scaled-down football fields of Recife, in northeastern Brazil. He repeated the dose in the smaller divisions of the São Paulo team and in the Mundial Sub 17 of 2019, where he became champion.
Already of ‘great’ is the ‘Menino de la Villa’ real estate in the Santos from Cuca and in the youth teams of Brazil. Whether consolidated or not as a professional, the great challenge for pearls has already written its name in history.
The goal that opened the win with which Santos entered the semi-final on Wednesday, making it the fifth fastest in the history of the Libertadores. Eleven seconds after the gate fell Guild fell and the 18-year-old began to become a global trend.
Kaio Jorge He has already scored 5 goals in the continental tournament, including 3 in the quarter-finals.
The star of SantosDespite his young age, he knocked on the door of all the European giants after his last performances in the Liberators cup and it can be a signature of Real Madridbecause the white club has pretty favorable reports from the footballer and could continue with its South American football signals policy.
Repeat history
In Santos has traveled the same path from Skin and Neymar. He shined in the small categories and made his professional debut without reaching the age of majority, at the age of 16. Skin he had the white coat on 15 and ‘Ney ‘ on the 17.
Kaio He was called to dress in Verdeamarelo when he was just starting his professional shooting. Guilherme Dalla Déa called him up for the U-17 World Cup that Brazil hosted and won last year. The jovial attacker was the ‘Canarinha’ scorer with five goals, one behind the shooter of the tournament, the Dutchman Sontje Hansen, from Ajax’s youth teams.
Jorge Kaio now wait the rival in the semifinals of the Libertadores, which arises from the clash between the Argentines Boca Juniors and To race.
The tree Libertadores won by the ‘Peixe’ (1962, 1963, 2011), sunk in an economic crisis, the names have marked Skin and Neymar. Raising the fourth is another step towards the path taken by those stars.
“In 2011 I watched the Libertadores del Santos, Watching Neymar on television, ”he said Kaio after devouring Guild. “Today, here, in Vila Belmiro, I can help Santos.”
Then, in 2021, the decision will come to take the plane and take part in one of the biggest projects of the European giants who have already had an indisputable eye for what appears to be one of the stars of Brazilian football. for the next decade. .