- Alex Kirkland
- Rodrigo Faez
Jul 27, 2024, 07:12 AM ET
Brazil youngster Endrick has been unveiled as Right Madrid‘s most up-to-date transfer at the Bernabéu, days after he signed his contract with the Champions League holders.
Madrid agreed a deal to sign forward Endrick from Palmeiras in December 2022, nonetheless the prospect couldn’t formally be a part of the membership till his 18th birthday on July 21, 2024.
The 18-one year-used became as soon as visibly emotional at the public presentation at the stadium, telling fans he has long-dreamed of playing for the reigning LaLiga champions as his of us had been also in tears in attendance.
“Here is crazy,” Endrick acknowledged. “I am so contented, since I became as soon as a diminutive one I even accept as true with always been a Madrid fan and now I will play for Madrid.
“I am right here, I will play, I am so contented, my household are as wisely. I execute now now not accept as true with words to narrate what I am feeling. I always desired to be right here. I desired to play for Madrid. It became as soon as a dream. This day it’s a actuality.
“I am grateful to each person. Now we are going to affirm a chant collectively, I am obvious you will all affirm with me: Three, two, one… ‘Hala Madrid.’
“I won’t lie, I did now not search files from all this, so many of us.”
Sources knowledgeable ESPN that more than 40,000 fans had been at the event. Madrid president Florentino Perez welcomed his team’s most up-to-date younger talent.
“This second became as soon as what you dreamed of as a diminutive one,” he acknowledged. “That conviction has led you to fulfil a lifetime dream. That dream you had in the event you had been handiest 9 years used with the Right Madrid Foundation.
“Your play and objectives already bring fans to their toes and Madrid are tickled to accept as true with you as portion of the household.”
Endrick held a files conference at the Bernabéu immediately after the disclosing, where he published that Los Blancos all-time file goal scorer Cristiano Ronaldo drove his fandom of the storied membership, and that the emotion overwhelmed him on the pitch at the disclosing.
“It [the tears] wasn’t planned, nonetheless as I acknowledged, since I became as soon as younger, I even accept as true with loved Right Madrid,” Endrick acknowledged. “At the foundation on narrative of I noticed Cristiano Ronaldo and that’s to begin with why I desired to know more in regards to the membership and commenced having a scrutinize back at your complete stars that were right here.
“I even were enamoured by Madrid since then … I did now not have to shout, on the opposite hand it came from the soul. I am hoping we are in a position to now execute history collectively.”
He added that his of us tears all the contrivance in which thru the event “touched his coronary heart,” announcing he “would now now not be right here without them.”
Endrick featured for Brazil at this summer’s Copa América, starting and playing 90 minutes in their penalty shootout defeat to Uruguay in the opponents’s quarterfinals.
He knowledgeable the knowledge conference that he has spoken loads to contemporary teammates Vinícius Júnior, Rodrygo and Éder Militão about his pass.
“[They] accept as true with helped me loads,” Endrick acknowledged. “They’ve spoken in regards to the membership as the second arrived to diagram right here, about practising and games. I became as soon as centered on the Copa América so now I am hoping we are in a position to insist more and compose a formidable friendship for the aid of Right Madrid, which is what is compulsory.”
Sources knowledgeable ESPN that the player did now not search files from to be a part of the Right Madrid squad as they trigger off on their pre-season tour of the US later this month, where they’re going to play three games against AC Milan, Barcelona and Chelsea.
Madrid’s first aggressive fixture of 2024-25 is the UEFA Dapper Cup, where the Champions League winners will play Europa League winners Atalanta in Warsaw, on Aug. 14.
They rob on Mallorca in their opening sport of the contemporary LaLiga season on Aug 18.
Endrick will place on the No. 16 as he competes for a tell in the Right Madrid attack alongside Brazil teammates Vinícius Júnior and Rodrygo, and one more contemporary arrival, Kylian Mbappé.
He is the most up-to-date teenage Brazilian talent to be identified by Madrid and chief scout Juni Calafat after they agreed a deal for then 16-one year-used Vinícius in 2017 and Rodrygo, then 17, a one year later.
Endrick has been grand hyped since changing into the youngest player to feature for Palmeiras,