“I see Galleno more in the Portugal national team than in Brazil.”

Galeno became a naturalized Portuguese name available to the next chosen one of the Quinas.

He has been living in Portugal since 2016, the year he moved to Porto B. Galeno represents, in addition to the Dragons, Portimonense, Rio Ave and Braga. In the first half of 2022, he completes the naturalization process. In other words, the winger, born in Barra da Corda, Brazil, can represent the Portuguese national team. Something, in the eyes of Pedro Correa, may come soon, especially given the start of a new cycle for the Quinas team.

“At this point, Gallino will feel accomplished and is already thinking about the step forward, which includes getting into the national team. And I’m honest: I see it more in Portugal than in Brazil. The national team doesn’t have much. Discrete players and fast strikers, there is a lack of quality in this profile. “The personal. He can contribute something bigger to Portugal. In this new era he can offer something different,” Cruzeiro’s “chief scout” tells our newspaper.

Remember, Galleno opened the door to this possibility in a recent interview with O Globo. “If I had this opportunity, I would do my best to represent the Portuguese nation well,” said the FC Porto player.

“It started when I was 15 or 16…”

It was such a crude talent that Grémio Anápolis persuaded the humble Trindade to accept the ‘yes’ to Galeno’s transmission. This is because extremism started very late in club football, and tactical discipline was, by no means, a strong point.

“Galeno did not have the natural growth of a player. He had no club training from an early age. When he arrived at Grémio, he had only a year and a half of formal training, in Trindade. He was 18-year-old, spent at most two seasons in the so-called Al Qaeda, he started very late, at 15 or 16 years old, he needed time to get used to the professional level in general, he didn’t have references. He learned through his mistakes to act like a professional”, recalls Pedro Correa, who has not forgotten the “very simple boy” who met him.

“I was happy to watch Galleno and realize there was potential for something else there. Porto also believed in him, because it’s not usual even for a team like that to pick a player who has had so little training. The merit in Galleno and in the people who made it is a little more than that. We’ve seen Mistakes, of course, but also virtues, ”he recalls.