A Brazilian basketball player mistakenly receives a transfer of 350,000 euros intended for his namesake

Romain Rouillard 9:00 p.m., March 07, 2023

When Flamengo is wrong by Joao Victor Gomes da Silva.

At the beginning of March, the Brazilian club made a transfer of 350,000 euros to an amateur basketball player, as reported by the

media .

Problem: the money was originally to be paid to a footballer playing in the English club Wolverhampton.

A funny blunder which is explained by the strictly identical identity of the two players: Joao Victor Gomes da Silva.

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The 19-year-old Brazilian basketball player was traveling when an SMS sent by his mother informed him of the error, he said in the columns of

.

Like his 22-year-old namesake from Wolverhampton, he also played at Flamengo in the past, in the basketball section of the Rio de Janeiro-based club.

A common point with the new recruit of the 13th in the Premier League which could explain this improbable giddiness.

"I was even scared"

A blunder greeted with suspicion by the young basketball player who now plays in the lower Brazilian leagues.

"I was even scared because until then I didn't know where the money was coming from. My sponsor also told me that I had to be careful because someone might use my account to launder money. 'money," he said, still with Globo.

A few days later, Flamengo having noticed the mistake he had just made, the Wolverhampton midfielder was able to obtain the transfer which was his due after a referral to the Federal Court intended to recover the money.

Recruited this winter for more than 18 million euros by the club in the south of England, Joao Victor Gomes da Silva was also targeted by Olympique Lyonnais.

For his very first match with Wolves, he distinguished himself by scoring the winning goal on the lawn of Southampton.