Dário Essugo is the youngest to play for Sporting and cries at the end of the match – Sporting

March 20, 2021 will undoubtedly be a day that the Portuguese-Angolan Dário Essugo will never forget. After all, at the age of 16 – celebrated a week ago – the young midfielder had the opportunity to play for Sporting’s main team, when he was thrown by Rúben Amorim in the 84th minute. against V. Guimarães. And it ended up making history.

Essugo broke all records, becoming the youngest player in history to play in the main team of the lions, beating Santamaría (16 years, 11 months and 12 days), Marco Caneira (17 years and one day) and, most recently, Joelson Fernandes (17 years, four months, and three days). Looking at other great players in the history of the lion, Dário Essugo can afford to say that he has vastly surpassed historical names such as Figo (17 years, 4 months and 27 days), Paulo Futre (17 years, 5 months and 29 days ), Cristiano Ronaldo (17 years, 6 months and 9 days) or Ricardo Quaresma (17 years, 10 months and 16 days). Curiously, in this duel with V. Guimarães on the other side, he was precisely the latter … 20 years older than the day of his debut.