He is an automated aboriginal best one of the a lot of high-profile clubs in the world, won the FIFA U-20 Apple Cup with Brazil, and has been alleged up to the arch band on a bulk of occasions. He has fabricated a few appearances for the aboriginal aggregation too.

Yet the 28 year-old midfielder is accepting brash as a alpha face in Luiz Felipe Scolari’s band for the affable adjoin South Africa on 5 March, the endure such bold afore the drillmaster announces his anniversary of names for the 2014 FIFA Apple Cup Brazil. FIFA had the adventitious to ask the midfielder why he thinks this adeptness be.