Desportivo Brasil
Desportivo Brasil Participações Ltda. (" Desportivo Brasil Beteiligungs-GmbH ") is a company based in Porto Feliz , a small town about 100 kilometers from São Paulo (Brazil), belonging to the important Brazilian sports marketer Traffic Sports , which operates a professional soccer team.
The main purpose of the company is to develop players between the ages of 13 and 20 and to sell them on as profitably as possible. There is a cooperation agreement with the youth academy of the English club Manchester United , which includes the exchange of players.
After youth teams were initially set up on November 19, 2005, the first team ran for the first time in 2009 in the fourth division of the state league, the so-called Segunda Divisão , of São Paulo.
In keeping with the business model, the club has now had a considerable number of players, not only from higher-class clubs in Brazil such as CR Vasco da Gama , Atlético Mineiro and Fluminense FC , but also from clubs in the USA, Russia, Japan, China and also European countries how Portugal and Poland were signed.
Cássio and Willians were part of the Fluminense championship team in 2010. Paulo Miranda established himself at São Paulo FC in 2012. Jardel and Xandão play for the top Portuguese clubs SL Benfica and Sporting Lisbon .
Muriqui was national champion with Atlético Mineiro on loan and eventually moved to the Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande for $ 3.5 million , where he became one of the top scorer in the league and twice champions. Paulo Henrique joined the Turkish first division club Trabzonspor in 2011 for a transfer fee of € 3.3 million . With the signing of Carlinhos by Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 2012 , a German club was also one of Desportivo's customers. In addition, Bruno Nascimento , who played for Desportivo in his youth, moved to 1. FC Köln in 2013 .
Web links
- Desportivo Brasil (Official Website)
- A visit to the most important talent factory in Brazil Article at 11Freunde
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chinese football club sign Brazilian striker Muriqui , People's Daily Online, June 30, 2010
- ↑ Henrique 3,5 milyon euro'ya Trabzonspor'd ' ( Memento of February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , Transfermarkt (TR) News, June 7, 2011