Chelsea FC’s Lucas Piazon On Being ‘Next Kaka’ And Fitting In At Eintracht Frankfurt
Chelsea FC youngster Lucas Piazon is one of the bright prospects in the Blues’ youth setup and has been pegged for years to become a regular first teamer. Piazon has been on loan with Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt this season and has already started four matches for the club, once in the German Cup and three times in the league.
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Piazon spoke earlier this season about how a permanent move to Frankfurt could tempt him but that he still has hopes of joining the Chelsea FC first team. The young Brazilian gave an exclusive interview with Bleacher Report which you can read in full
. Here are some of the best bits from the interview.
Lucas Piazon on moving to Chelsea FC at a young age:
"At that moment, it was great opportunity for me. I was not afraid. I was not playing first-team football at Sao Paulo, and I got a great offer from Chelsea. It was a new league, a new style and all young Brazilian players dream of playing for the big European clubs. So Chelsea bought me when I was 17 and I went to England. Soon I was playing with excellent players. At Sao Paulo, I never played first team football; at Chelsea, I played at the academy. I was very young and it was difficult, but the experience counted."
Lucas Piazon on why he chose Chelsea FC:
"In Brazil, the European leagues are always shown [on TV]—the Italian league, La Liga and the English league. I was always watching football, [but] I was not a big fan of Chelsea. But if I had to choose an English team, it would be Chelsea. I liked the style and it was around the time when Chelsea won the Premier League twice in a row. They also played in the final of the Champions League against Manchester United [in 2008]. I liked the team and the players, and that turned me into a bit of a fan."
On adapting to Germany and the Bundesliga:
"It’s nice. Frankfurt is a nice place and a nice city. The Bundesliga is a bit stronger, and I have to do different things than [I did] in [the Netherlands], where I had the ball much more. The level is very high, and it is one of the best leagues in the world. Germany are the world champions. It will be a very competitive season. For a young player, it is good: a lot of running, a lot of defending. I need to be physically fit."
Lucas Piazon on being compared to Kaka:
"Yes, the media said that when I was 15. I was a No. 9 for a while. Kaka was a midfield player and the comparison was made because we are both from Sao Paulo and on the field we have the same style. That’s normal in Brazil. At Santos, they always say there is a new Robinho or a new Neymar. But [it] is more a joke than anything serious."
The rest of the interview is a great read and it is a nice insight in to the mind of one of Chelsea’s talented youngsters that has taken a roundabout route through European football. Piazon also seems like a genuinely nice person and is a very easy player to root for, whether he belonged to Chelsea or not.
Source: Bleacher Report
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