Chronicle La Champions meets the gourmet version of Vinicius
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"
He doesn't care
." "
Nothing, that doesn't matter to him
." "
Pressure? You don't know that
." If your environment, your coaches and your bosses insist on the same thing, it will be that it is the truth.
Vinicius Júnior
turned
21
last July, since he was 18 he has been a key in the present of
Real Madrid
and lives almost unaware of his own reality.
In a club that eats the weakest minds, the Brazilian continues to grow with an
astonishing indifference to criticism
. Those that came when he scored goals in
Second Division B
and that increased by not seeing the door with the ease that the
Santiago Bernabéu
demands
, whether you are a child or a veteran.
"
I'm going to fail and I'm going to try again
. And it will come out," he declared, and laughed yesterday, still sweating, at the
Kiev Olympics
. A threatening but descriptive phrase of what his
personality is
. Overwhelming. On the grass, a colossal play was invented that resulted in one of the goals of the season. He picked up the ball in the left peak of the Shakhtar area, faced his first rival and beat him, the second, the third and the fourth, in an almost
Messianic
slalom
that ended with a shot that went to the top of the goal of
Anatoli Trubin
.
"I always make this play in training, so I am happy that I came out in the game," he explained.
He scored two goals: one
stinging the ball in
front of the rival goalkeeper after a diagonal deflection towards the penalty spot that Modric was able to read.
Another after an accumulation of dribbles with a subsequent
left-handed shot
.
An overwhelming physique
In
Valdebebas
, the biggest change they have seen is not so much in personality as in
physique
. He is still the same boldly young man that he was months ago, he has added the
success towards the goal
, "it was a matter of time", and he has worked all summer to climb two steps in a
physique that makes him unstoppable
in the final stretch of the parties. One piece of information explains the physical superiority of Vinicius:
all the goals
he has scored this season, five in the League and two in the Champions League, have been in the
second half of the games
. In added time against
Alavés
, in 73 'and 85' against
Levante
, in 55 'against
Celta
, in 86 'against
Valencia
and in 51' and 65 'against
Shakhtar
.
At the beginning of the year he hired a
chef
who has completely changed his diet and for a little over twelve months
Thiago Lobo
, formerly of Santos and now the Brazilian's physiotherapist, is
his shadow
to every corner of the world he travels.
"
Mentally nothing has changed
in him, but physically he is at a brutal level," explain those who know him best.
In summer he was left without the Olympic Games but he did not take the opportunity to rest completely.
He went on vacation
with his closest friends, some of them living at his home in Madrid, and with Lobo, who kept him in shape at the beach.
Back in the capital he doesn't relax either. Like most footballers, he
has his own gym at home, where he lives with more than a dozen people,
and performs individualized training,
coordinated between his coach and those of Madrid
, every afternoon that the team does not have a session in the sports city .
"
The pressure?
" Vinicius laughed in Kiev. "
I've always handled it well, I like to play like that
, I like to play for the best team in the world," he argued. "Everyone gives me a lot of confidence. I am 21 years old and have a long time to evolve, to work and to be the great player I imagine." The reality is that it comes from a team,
Flamengo
, which has one of the largest fan bases in all of Brazil, which it managed to conquer in just a few moves on the day it debuted, while still underage (16 years old) and surpassing the records of precocity of Neymar and Gabriel Jesús. That day, in addition,
he was already a Real Madrid player
.
A way of facing his challenges in Madrid that has penetrated the locker room and for which he has beaten the heavyweights of the squad, starting with a Benzema who at times despaired of him in his first months.
"Vinicius is young but he deserves this, he helps us a lot, he is a crack.
We need the best Vini,
" said the Frenchman yesterday, aware, like Ancelotti, that the Brazilian's physique is vital in the last minutes of the matches.
"
In the end he did a lot of sprints,
" joked the Italian.
"He has improved a lot in quality in the last meters in front of the goal, but he has also worked on it. He is doing very well."
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