With a renewal proposal for five years with Benfica, the 20-year-old midfielder Martim Neto, who ends his relationship with the club at the end of June, is preparing to be one of the strong bets for next season.
The eagles want to keep the player at La Luz and Carlos Pereira, who was training Martim Neto when he arrived at Benfica, confesses TSF believes that there is potential to gain a foothold in the team led by Roger Schmidt.
“He can reach high levels because he has a characteristic of modern football: a fantastic reading of the game and a very, very careful decision, which later means that later, in more serious football, he can reach high levels,” he points out. former player coach.
At Benfica since 2015/2016 -he arrived at the club at the age of 12-, he never left the red formation and ended up making his debut in the main team in 2021/2022, led by Nelson Veríssimo, in Paços de Ferreira, in a match that the reds won 2-0. In the same season, he won the UEFA Youth League with the youth team.
And when he arrived at the club, eight years ago, he already showed a lot of what he does today, Carlos Pereira guarantees: “He was very irreverent, very good technically, with an above-average reading of the game, a kid who knew how to use his spaces, with quality in the pass at medium, short and long distance, in precision and with a good shot”.
Added to these characteristics was his “team spirit” and the way he played “very well in midfield, with great reading and decision-making ability”, skills that he maintained over the years.
On the mental side, in addition to his personality “already out of the ordinary”, the former midfielder coach acknowledges his “great belief” and availability “to learn”.
“Very irreverent in his ability to overcome, even in game and training situations”, in which “he was always constant”, Martim Neto is also “very aggressive, very strong and combative”.
In the season that is ending, Neto played 16 matches with the Benfica B team and participated in the U-20 final, in which Benfica beat the Uruguayans from Peñarol.
Source: TSF
