Summer mercato 2012

[brasileiro]

Gabriel should be a decent keeper, given that he is young and has time to develop even further. He's already gone up against the likes of Tello and Oliviera in the youth Tournaments, even winning the Junior World Cup. From what I saw in the video the boy is impressive with his feet, steady with his hands and his timings coming out of the goals. One point of concern though, is that in nearly all the clips I've seen of him it seems like he concedes at least one goal each match (never more than two max though), which raises doubts about his consistency. At 20 years old however, he should still be able to improve more and more.

Regarding your concern, Ryo... keep in mind in front of him, Gabriel had Juan(Inter) and Bruno Uvini(São Paulo)... impossible to keep a clean sheet.

I don´t know if you saw Brazil x Argentine(last friendly), but that can give you a glimpse of how bad is that duo. Gabriel(and Oscar) were one of the reasons Brazil´won that title. The overall talent of that Brazil NT was average... at best.

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Also I could never find a video or any footage of our new GK Gabriel in action, I finally did here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1HFQD9mW...ure=relmfu

This one shows a little more about him. Like I said, you can see how advanced he´s in technique for his age. Keep in mind it was a sub-20 championship and Gabriel was the youngest in Brazil squad(18 years old).


hard to predict success with a GK, but Gabriel has everything but pro experience. Let´s hope he can translate to the pros what he did in the Youth competitions.