I don’t think you can predict anything other than it being a great game. It’s a battle between two giants of Brazilian and South American football. We know that we’re up against a very good side, but Flamengo are also up against a very good side. A lot of their players had good careers in Europe and have returned to Brazil still playing at a good level.
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They have a great team full of great players. I know some of them personally from the Seleção. We know them well, we know all their players well. We’re very confident going into the final. Now we want to enhance our story by conquering more titles. To achieve what we’ve done shows we have a very good side with a strong mindset.
Brazilian football and South American football is extremely competitive. We’ve won the Brasileiro, Paulista, Copa do Brasil titles recently and are in our second successive Libertadores final. We’ve been writing another beautiful chapter in the club’s history. For their history, for all the great players who have worn and dazzled in this shirt, for all the important titles they have won. Palmeiras are greatly respected across South America and the world. How are Palmeiras feeling heading into the Libertadores final? The Palmeiras supporters give me a lot of happiness and motivation.
The love they show me is really pleasing because I know how hard I worked, how dedicated I was. I think the relationship I have with the fans today is the fruit of what I’ve done on the pitch and what we’ve won as a team. But I worked really hard, fought for my place and tried to understand how the club and the supporters worked. Maybe the fans didn’t see the need to have another goalkeeper at that time. I arrived here a little shy on confidence, because the club had two idols: Jailson and Prass. Thank God I have an incredible relationship with the supporters. We went through a difficult time without supporters at our games, and now it’s great to have them back. Happiness for us players is seeing your supporters euphoric, celebrating. A club without supporters is a club without life. Weverton chats to FIFA about his FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ dream and Saturday’s Copa Libertadores final against Flamengo.įIFA: Can you tell us about the Palmeiras supporters and your relationship with them? Weverton: The Palmeiras supporters are really passionate, absolutely fanatical for the club. The Rio Branco native jumped to the front of the goalkeeping queue, kept five consecutive clean sheets to get the Seleção to the final, then repelled Germany’s final penalty in the shootout to enable Neymar to end Brazil’s 64-year wait for a first Olympic football gold. A few days before the Men’s Olympics Football Tournament kicked off, Fernando Prass was ruled out and Weverton whizzed to Rio de Janeiro as his replacement. Thereafter, his exceptional reflexes have inspired them to the Brasileirao, Paulistao, Copa do Brasil and Copa Libertadores crowns, and become an icon to almost 13 million supporters.Īnother private jet he wasn’t even supposed to get on in mid-2016 licenced him to become a hero to over 200 million. The two stayed in touch and 14 months later, Weverton joined O Verdão. Weverton, his face deadly serious, replied that if he did, Alexandre wouldn’t regret it. As a grateful Weverton hopped on board, he was introduced to the club’s head honchos.Īlexandre Mattos, Palmeiras’s then director of football, joked that he was taking Weverton back to the Allianz Parque with him.
Then Palmeiras president Paulo Nobre had sent his private jet to rush the young striker back for the derby against Sao Paulo.