Gremio de Porto Alegre announced on Monday the return, after fifteen years of having left Brazilian football, of midfielder Lucas Leiva, who in Europe defended English Liverpool and Italian Lazio.
“It represents the beginning of my dream. It was where it all started. I lived in the Olympic (stadium), I trained here and now being able to return is the realization of everything I imagined for my career and I can help in the same way as I did years ago. “, declared the player to the Gremio TV channel.
Leivinha’s nephew, idol of Palmeiras in the 1970s and Atlético de Madrid in Spain, posed on the club’s social networks with the number “15” shirt, the same one he wore in 2005 when he was one of the protagonists of the call “Battle of the Afflites”. In that 2005 game, just like this year, the Gremio played in the second division, winning 0-1 and thus guaranteeing its return to the First Division, despite having four expelled.
On his Instagram profile, Lucas Leiva wrote: “Tricolor fan: I came back fifteen years later to help the club and the group of players. It’s time to unite even more to achieve promotion to the elite of Brazilian football. Let’s go together, because the Guild is our focus.” In recent years, the midfielder defended Lazio, but his best moment was at Liverpool, with a performance that endorsed him to be in the Brazilian team that played in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the Copa América in Argentina. 2011.
The 35-year-old midfielder’s debut may only be possible after July 18, when the Brazilian League transfer book opens again.
EFE
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