Four years later, Bruma is back in the selection. “What an enormous joy to be called up to our national team again! I always believed that, with work, it would be possible. I look forward to wearing the colors of our country again,” said the Sp winger . Braga, after hearing Roberto Martínez announce his name for the double effort of Portugal – already qualified for Euro 2024 and with matches against Liechenstein (the 16th) and Iceland (the 19th).
The winger has the distinction of being the 600th player to represent Portugal. Date of Honor dates back to November 10, 2017, when Fernando Santos used it against Saudi Arabia (3-0) during the 2018 World Cup qualifying, allowing him to debut four years after his first call-up in 2013, although Paulo Bento did not use it made. It was the last of four debuts in that match, along with Kévin Rodrigues, Edgar Ié and Bruno Fernandes.
With only nine international matches, 461 minutes on the field and one goal scored, the 29-year-old player had been away from national picks for four years. Precisely since November 14, 2019, when he took part in the Portuguese defeat against Lithuania (6-0) during the Euro 2020 qualifying.
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Bruma was contested by Fenerbahçe and Botafogo and chose sp. Braga. I knew that returning to the I League was an essential condition to play and return to the corner group. Something he has now achieved and which he has been complaining about on the field for a few months. “We have been following Bruma since January. He grew a lot last season, now he has experience in the Champions League and an important role. We lost Pedro Neto and the players who can give what he gives are Bruma and Galeno. Bruma deserved it. ” and has the ability”said the selector, after including him in the list of 26 players, which also includes the returns of Pepe and Matheus Nunes.
Armindo Tue Na Bangna (Bruma) has been seen as a great promise for Sporting since he was thirteen. When the club Alvalade offered him a professional contract, the player born in Bissau in 1994 became embroiled in a paternal dispute at the age of 16. He will never forget the day he turned 16 and was wanted by the PSP for alleged kidnapping. He came into the media spotlight and made his debut for Sporting in 2012-2013. He played only 13 games with the lion on his chest and left for Galatasaray (Turkey) for 10 million euros at the age of 19.
Since then he has promised a lot without reaching the expected level. He tried the Spanish league (Real Sociedad), the German (RB Leipzig), the Dutch (PSV), the Greek (Olympiacos) and the Turkish (Fenerbahçe), where Sp. Braga came to his rescue and after a loan and some games of Patience guaranteed it definitively.
It was with speed and dribbling combined with some tactical irreverence that he returned to the national team. An example of how “the doors are open to everyone”, according to the coach. Even for Pote: “He is Sporting’s most important player, but I have players who enter these fields [Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes e Vitinha, além de Bruma]. You do everything right, it’s just a matter of waiting for the opportunity.”
Source: DN
