when Vanderson recounts the moment he almost quit football
Zapping Foot National Top 10 Gambardella Cup winners
Arrived this winter from Gremio, Vanderson quickly imposed himself in the right lane of ASM and has already accumulated 13 Ligue 1 games for 2 goals and an assist. Promising beginnings for this young player of 20 years, who was not asked for a career as a professional footballer.
“I had decided to go back to school”
In an interview with L’Equipe, the Brazilian returned to the necessities that almost caused him to put his foot aside: “When I was 16, I stopped playing with foot because, from there where I came from, I saw that it was too difficult to become a professional. I had to do something to help my parents. My mother worked as a domestic worker, my father was a truck driver, they needed help. I had decided to go back to school and then find a job,” said the native of the state of Mato Grosse, near the Bolivian border. It was ultimately a meeting that completely changed the Monegasque’s destiny: “Friends introduced me to a coach who offered to give me a test because he had a contact in São Paulo” he continues. “He had no past in competition or training, he was very small, rickety” describes João Batista before adding: “He did not have a ”commercial” morphotype as we say in football. More I saw a lot of talent, his great technical quality and his intelligence to understand the game and make the right decisions” he concluded.
to summarize
Arrived this winter from Gremio, Vanderson quickly imposed himself in the right lane of ASM and has already accumulated 13 Ligue 1 games for 2 goals and an assist. Promising beginnings for this young player of 20 years, who was not asked for a career as a professional footballer.