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Jorge Jesus’ Benfica summer dream, 25-year-old Santos center-back Lucas Veríssimo, is close to becoming an eagle reality this winter. Benfica and Santos have practically everything prepared for the transfer of a player who, according to those who know him, is prepared for the demands of the red team.
That is the opinion of Dorival Júnior, the coach who in 2015 gave Lucas Veríssimo the first opportunity at Santos, who in an interview with A BOLA, guarantees that Benfica will not regret the hiring he is doing.
«I feel ready to live a new moment in my career. Lucas, for having a good reading, is always well positioned, when he has possession of the ball he makes the team start the transition movement defense-attack well. Jesus knows him very well, I am sure he observed him well the year before. He brought one of the most important players in Brazilian football in the last two years, Everton, and I think that, with time and more maturity, he will develop everything that he has been presenting here in Brazil. It has already begun to do so. I think that if Benfica makes this option [Lucas Veríssimo] you’ll be making an excellent contract, “he says.
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