Vinicius, 'threatened'

He is only 21 years old, but he is starting his fourth season with Real Madrid. Vinicius Junior starts to need to hit the table and that could be his birthday wish. The Brazilian blew this week 21 candles starting your vacation, but with the need to win over Ancelotti. To top it off, this season the position is disputed with many important people such as Hazard, Bale, Asensio or Lucas Vázquez.

The departure of Zidane generates a clean sweep for some members of Madrid present, such as Vini, and for others who return (Ceballos and Odegaard), but Vinicius has un plus for showing that their great knockout tie in the Champions League quarter-finals against Liverpool were not fireworks. The Brazilian attacker grows in presence (last season he played 2,722 ’, the most since he arrived), but his Achilles heel is still the goal: just 14 in 118 games for Madrid. The lack of aim pursues him.

Despite this, Vinicius remains one of the pillars that Madrid projected for 2025 (he has a contract until that year) along with Rodrygo, Fede Valverde and Militao. But one thing is the projection and another the immediate future. The white club continues to prepare to welcome Mbappé and once he arrives, the left profile of the Madrid attack would have undisputed love from the first minute. TO Vini You have to take advantage of all the time you have before the big star arrives French to first become indispensable for Carletto and later, reinvent yourself in another position.

World (almost) in sight

A key year because the World Cup in Qatar is also being played, which will start in October 2022. Tite has counted on him intermittently, also in this Copa América (64 minutes between the six games, although 27 'of them were in the final ) and this Maracanazo Argentine in the great South American tournament no quiet times for the canarinha.

Several of his colleagues took to social networks this week to congratulate him on his 21st birthday. His compatriot Marcelo uploaded an image together with the phrase 'Congratulations brat, crack. Health and joy'. Benzema did too, congratulating his “little brother”, the same term used by another Brazilian Real Madrid player, Reinier. Rodrygo, Carvajal, Nacho, Lucas … a good part of the white dressing room wanted to publicly express their good wishes to a Vinicius who is one of the most outgoing footballers on the squad.