Palmeiras summons a 19-year-old goalkeeper to complete his team in the World Cup

The palm trees Brazilian, champion of the last two editions of the Copa Libertadores, summoned a 19-year-old goalkeeper this Friday to complete the team that is already focused on Abu Dhabi to dispute the Club World Cup and replace the goalkeeper Vinicius Silvestre, who contracted covid.

The goalkeeper Mateus, which this month was crowned champion with the palm trees of the Copa Sao Paulo Júnior, the main youth tournament in Brazil, was summoned at the last minute and plans to embark on Saturday to United Arab Emirates, where he can be registered as Palmeiras’ third goalkeeper.

The youth was provisionally called up to replace Vinicius Silvestre, one of the three goalkeepers with whom the São Paulo club traveled to the World Cup and who tested positive in the diagnostic test he underwent on Friday morning.

Palmeiras announced that Mateus will be registered to compete in the World Cup in the event that Vinicuis Silvestre, who is isolated and does not participate in training, tests positive again in the covid diagnostic tests to which he will be subjected on Saturday and Sunday.

The other two Palmeiras goalkeepers in the World Cup are the starters Weverton, player of the Brazilian national team, and Marcelo Lomba, a reinforcement hired this year from Internacional.

Meteus, a goalkeeper who is 1.99 meters tall, was one of the figures in the campaign with which Palmeiras won the Sao Paulo Junior Cup. The player has been playing in the youth divisions of the green club since 2016.

Despite the fact that he has never played with the professional team, he has been summoned by the coach Abel Ferreira for nine games thanks to the fact that in his commitments for the youth team he has only suffered five goals.

Another two of the youth who conquered the Sao Paulo Cup with the palm trees They are also part of the delegation that Palmeiras took to Abu Dhabi: the side Vanderlan and attacker Giovani.

They were summoned to replace the Uruguayan winger Joaquín Piquerez and the striker Gabriel Veron, who tested positive for coronavirus before the trip palm trees to the United Arab Emirates, they are isolated in Sao Paulo and can board in case their next tests are negative.

Palmeiras makes his debut in it world on Tuesday, when the winner of the duel between the Egyptian Al Ahly and the Mexican Monterrey will be measured. Should they win their semi-final match, they will advance to the final the following Sunday.

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