What took establish? Chelsea new boy Estevao hurts Palmeiras fans with final action

It’s consistently foremost to preserve in tips that Estevao is simplest 18 years extinct. At that age, none of the readers of this or every other Trivela article bear been price larger than R$350 million, had been Palmeiras’ major participant for over a one year, or bear been about to transfer to London to build on the Chelsea shirt.

On account of that, imagining what’s going by arrangement of his head is an very not likely assignment. Excellent as it’s unfair to build a question to a maturity from him that he can’t perchance divulge.

Estevao even tried to point to how he felt, in a burst of brutal honesty.

“It’s very difficult, it’s a dream I’m going to realise, knowing that I have to focus here (on the Club World Cup) and work. It’s not easy, you have to keep your head here.

“The nearer it will get, the extra apprehension objects in, the butterflies in my belly. I’m making an strive to heart of attention as noteworthy as that you just may perchance agree with here to transfer away solid, with my head held excessive, by arrangement of the front door, colorful that I gave my all,” he said, after the 2-2 draw with Inter Miami in the group stage.

Estevao excelled for Palmeiras at Club World Cup

Even so, Palmeiras’ number 41 left the pitch with the Man of the Match award in three of the team’s five Club World Cup games: Porto (0-0), Al Ahly (2-0), and Chelsea, in the quarter-finals (1-2).

For what he did in the tournament, and especially in the last game, Estevao will start his career in English football with his value on the rise. He gave a first-class calling card to his future teammates.

He tormented Cucurella, argued and didn’t back down from Enzo Fernandez or Pedro Neto. He played his final match for Palmeiras as if he weren’t about to join the opposing team in less than a month.

The English press loved what they saw.

The farewell against his future team, with a goal and brilliant football, could have been the perfect ending to Estevao’s time at the club.

The imperfection of the goodbye began with Weverton’s mistake, which led to the elimination goal, just as Palmeiras were on top. But the striker’s individual farewell could still have been salvaged.

However, a completely off-key press conference, largely fuelled by coach Abel Ferreira, it must be said, left an even more bitter taste after the elimination.

Journalist Felippe Facincani, reporting from the US for TV Gazeta, asked Estevao what the team lacked to overcome the English side. If something more was missing. If he, Estevao, could have done something differently.

Estevao press conference has led to a backlash

The striker, sitting next to Abel Ferreira, looked at the coach, and the two, covering their mouths to hide what they were saying, laughed.

“What bear you suspect used to be lacking? Well, I obtained’t begin my coronary heart because closing time you played the unsuitable formula. However one factor my dad and Abel dispute me is to give my all on the sphere. And that is the explanation what I did. I helped the team with a honest, but we obtained’t present the probability to come to a decision up every day. Now it be time to transfer forward. I may be cheering for Palmeiras, and it used to be an mountainous honour to be segment of this neighborhood,” he replied.

The irritation is understandable. The laughter, however, left much of the fanbase with a sense of mockery. Something like “cracking a joke at a funeral.”

Trivela reached out to Palmeiras to better understand the situation. Sources said that Estevao cried before and after the press conference. And that the laughter was a nervous reaction to a question considered provocative.

That may well be the case. Because everyone at the club says that Estevao is a good kid. Unlike Endrick, who was shaped by media training, Estevao is seen as spontaneous.

But his and Abel’s laughter stung. Especially after John Arias nearly broke down in tears following Fluminense’s elimination by the same Chelsea in the semifinal (2-0). The comparison was inevitable.

Estevao, in his last image as a Palmeiras player, left the stage with a bad impression for many. One that neither the fans nor Estevao deserved after so many good moments together. An image that, above all, doesn’t reflect the quality of his football or the character he showed in his four years at the club.

This article was originally published on Trivela.

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