n01efc
Player Valuation: £25m
Obviously don’t watch much football if you think they are similar!
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Were does Tom Davies fit in
ValBlue
Player Valuation: £35m
Newcastle
The sea.
orly
Please check with me for Blammo criteria
The bin
n01efc
Player Valuation: £25m
They aren’t similar, Doucoure is a central midfielder who plays box to box while Rodriguez is a number 10 or even a wide player cutting in (the later is how Carlo played him).
n01efc
Player Valuation: £25m
I’d love it!
billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
Norwich
barneygumble
Player Valuation: £70m
Personally Rafinha is just cause Liverpool are heavily linked with Thiago Alcantara, who’s his brother.
Apparrntly someone elsefamily related just moved over too?
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
I genuinely thought he was a cousin.
Donkeree.
It is impossible to know how many cases there are in the world, but it is not difficult to intuit that Thiago and Rodrigo's, if it is not the only one, is a really strange one . Two close friends who, like any 10-year-old boy, dreamed of playing a World Cup. Two close friends who, 17 later, are still just as close friends and who, indeed, are playing a World Cup. « At home I was reviewing photos with my mother from when we were little . I remembered that in 2001 we played a kind of Mundialito between the schools and, look, now we are both here », Rodrigo revealed yesterday in Krasnodar, where the heat is pressing , hence Lopetegui has brought the start of training half an hour ahead (now they are at 10.30am).
Because, it is known, Rodrigo and Thiago are close friends . There is the conviction, in fact, that they are cousins, but not. Their bloods have nothing in common. Of course, having friendship like this, who needs blood? "People say we are cousins, but it is not like that," explained Rodrigo in the last concentration, the one in March, where he scored against Germany in the first match. The story is simple: Thiago's father, Mazinho, returned to Rio de Janeiro when he retired and Thiago and Rafinha went to study at the school where Rodrigo, the Anglo-American from Barra de Tijuca , was, surely the best in the city. Rodrigo's sister studied with Rafinha and the two of them, Rodrigo and Thiago, played at Flamengo.
The fact is that Mazinho decided to return to Vigo a few months later and proposed to Adalberto, Rodrigo's father, whom he knew from his time as a footballer, to go with him and become his partner for the management of a School of Soccer , where of course the two would play, Thiago and Rodrigo. Better written, the three: Thiago, Rafinha and Rodrigo. "We were together all day, at school, at football, at home, hence we are even more than cousins," Thiago has once said.
A peculiar tournament
The fact is that in those days it was when Rodrigo and Thiago imagined playing a World Cup. They first made it happen at their level, at the level that things can become a reality at age 10. "A kind of World Cup was organized between the schools , and Thiago and I played with England," explained the forward of the national team and Valencia. "And look now, luckily we are playing a real World Cup together and our families imagine, they are very happy that we can share this experience," continued a kind, polite guy, with a speech that uses an extensive vocabulary , above the half.
Inside the residence, the cousins spend a lot of time together. As in Rio de Janeiro, as then in Vigo until Real Madrid and Barcelona separated them. First, as a cadet , Thiago went to La Masía. Later, as a youth , it was Rodrigo who left Celta to settle in Valdebebas. There they stopped playing together in their clubs, not in the national team. From the same year and almost the same month (Rodrigo is from March 6, Thiago from April 11, both from 1991), they have always gone hand in hand in the inferiors.
Lopetegui has been the one who has mentored a good part of their path with Spain - Rafinha, by the way, Thiago's brother, chose to play with Brazil. With them he was champion of the U21 Eurocup in Israel in 2013 , where Thiago was the undisputed starter and Rodrigo was the substitute for Álvaro Morata. Regarding the absence of the Chelsea player, the boy is constantly being asked now, who throws balls out as best he can, because of course, it is not his fault that the coach chose him. By the way, speaking of picking, who will you pick to face Portugal on Friday? «Costa is the benchmark in attack. Blades is more versatile, it can be moved a lot. And I believe that I am in the middle, between both. The coach will decide, but whoever plays to encourage, contribute, and leave their soul plays.
Because, it is known, Rodrigo and Thiago are close friends . There is the conviction, in fact, that they are cousins, but not. Their bloods have nothing in common. Of course, having friendship like this, who needs blood? "People say we are cousins, but it is not like that," explained Rodrigo in the last concentration, the one in March, where he scored against Germany in the first match. The story is simple: Thiago's father, Mazinho, returned to Rio de Janeiro when he retired and Thiago and Rafinha went to study at the school where Rodrigo, the Anglo-American from Barra de Tijuca , was, surely the best in the city. Rodrigo's sister studied with Rafinha and the two of them, Rodrigo and Thiago, played at Flamengo.
The fact is that Mazinho decided to return to Vigo a few months later and proposed to Adalberto, Rodrigo's father, whom he knew from his time as a footballer, to go with him and become his partner for the management of a School of Soccer , where of course the two would play, Thiago and Rodrigo. Better written, the three: Thiago, Rafinha and Rodrigo. "We were together all day, at school, at football, at home, hence we are even more than cousins," Thiago has once said.
A peculiar tournament
The fact is that in those days it was when Rodrigo and Thiago imagined playing a World Cup. They first made it happen at their level, at the level that things can become a reality at age 10. "A kind of World Cup was organized between the schools , and Thiago and I played with England," explained the forward of the national team and Valencia. "And look now, luckily we are playing a real World Cup together and our families imagine, they are very happy that we can share this experience," continued a kind, polite guy, with a speech that uses an extensive vocabulary , above the half.
Inside the residence, the cousins spend a lot of time together. As in Rio de Janeiro, as then in Vigo until Real Madrid and Barcelona separated them. First, as a cadet , Thiago went to La Masía. Later, as a youth , it was Rodrigo who left Celta to settle in Valdebebas. There they stopped playing together in their clubs, not in the national team. From the same year and almost the same month (Rodrigo is from March 6, Thiago from April 11, both from 1991), they have always gone hand in hand in the inferiors.
Lopetegui has been the one who has mentored a good part of their path with Spain - Rafinha, by the way, Thiago's brother, chose to play with Brazil. With them he was champion of the U21 Eurocup in Israel in 2013 , where Thiago was the undisputed starter and Rodrigo was the substitute for Álvaro Morata. Regarding the absence of the Chelsea player, the boy is constantly being asked now, who throws balls out as best he can, because of course, it is not his fault that the coach chose him. By the way, speaking of picking, who will you pick to face Portugal on Friday? «Costa is the benchmark in attack. Blades is more versatile, it can be moved a lot. And I believe that I am in the middle, between both. The coach will decide, but whoever plays to encourage, contribute, and leave their soul plays.
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But he clearly is, so why does it matter what I think?
we went for him in 2018, 2019 and now again in 2020.
would be dead weird like cause Doucoure and Rafinha are in no way similar
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