{"id":14998,"date":"2025-05-28T10:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T02:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/?p=14998"},"modified":"2025-05-28T10:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T02:33:23","slug":"bundesliga-star-mentions-atletico-and-savinho-on-visit-to-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbscore.com\/zh\/news\/bundesliga-star-mentions-atletico-and-savinho-on-visit-to-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Bundesliga star mentions Atl\u00e9tico and Savinho on visit to Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Atl\u00e9tico, whose former teammate Savinho is a member of, was the first Brazilian club mentioned by a European football legend in an interview during a visit to Brazil

Red Bull Leipzig<\/strong> star and European football legend Xavi Simons<\/strong> is visiting Brazil <\/strong>for the team’s \u201ctour\u201d of the country. When asked about his knowledge of Brazilian teams, the Dutchman didn’t hesitate and mentioned the names of four giants of national football. The first of these was Atl\u00e9tico<\/strong>, remembered by the attacking midfielder due to his former teammate Savinho<\/strong>, a product of Galo’s youth academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring my career, I played with many Brazilian players. I played with Savinho at PSV, he played at Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro. I know many clubs here, Palmeiras, Botafogo, Flamengo\u2026 I know a lot of these clubs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, Xavi praised the \u201cplaying style\u201d and the \u201cmentality\u201d of Brazilians of \u201cenjoying being on the pitch\u201d: \u201cAt the end, we see them smiling on the pitch, that\u2019s pure magic. This is different from other countries, they are on the field enjoying themselves as if they were in their hometown\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xavi Simons and Savinho played together for just one season \u2013 the Atl\u00e9tico youth player\u2019s first outside of Brazil, in 2022\/2023. Despite the language barrier, they became friends and still like and comment on Instagram to this day. Xavi was PSV\u2019s star player that season, scoring 22 goals and providing 11 assists. Meanwhile, S\u00e1vio struggled to adapt to Europe. Loaned to the club by Troyes, a French team belonging to the City Group, the Brazilian forward suffered from injuries and played little for the Dutch club. Savinho played 10 games for PSV\u2019s B team in 2022\/2023, scoring two goals and providing two assists, and had only eight opportunities to play for the main team \u2013 none as a starter. Simons was also playing in seven of them \u2013 interestingly, the two goal contributions made by the Galo youth player playing for PSV\u2019s main team were for Xavi. The following season, the Dutchman, a product of Barcelona’s youth system, would leave PSV for Red Bull Leipzig. At the German team, he has been the main offensive player since he arrived, with 22 goals and 20 assists in 76 matches played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A frequent starter for the Dutch national team, Xavi is expected to leave the club in the next transfer window and has already been linked with European giants such as Bayern Munich, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bTottenham, Manchester United and Liverpool. Savinho would also leave PSV the following season. In 2023\/2024, he was transferred by Troyes to Girona, in Spain, which also belongs to the City Group. There, he emerged, was one of the great revelations of the Spanish Championship and, in 2024\/2025, he was signed by the powerful Manchester City, in England. In Pep Guardiola’s team, he scored two goals and provided 10 assists in 45 games in his first season, in which he alternated between starting and being a substitute.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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