Brazil ahead Endrick has rejected comparisons with late Brazil legend Pelé and requested to “simply let historical past be made.”
The Palmeiras star, who is about to affix Actual Madrid on July 21 when he turns 18, scored the winner in Brazil’s 3-2 pleasant victory towards Mexico on Saturday forward of the Copa América.
In doing so, Endrick emulated Pelé’s feat of scoring three targets for the nationwide group earlier than his 18th birthday.
“I all the time had it in my head that you just [journalists] create your individual issues, you create loopy issues,” Endrick mentioned.
“After I was youthful, after I was 16 years outdated, I watched a number of social media, I am not going to lie, and so they saved evaluating me to Vitor Roque, they saved evaluating me to Pelé . You guys are loopy. Pelé was Pelé .
“You should not be evaluating your self to anybody, for me that is ugly, and everybody has their very own story, their very own actuality, the place they got here from and what they should undergo to have the ability to play.
“And also you wish to hold evaluating. Simply let historical past be made.”
Endrick has been one in all Brazil’s most highly-rated younger gamers since making his first-team debut for Palmeiras aged 16 in October 2022.
Earlier this yr, he made headlines worldwide when he scored his first senior objective for Brazil of their 1-0 win towards England, turning into the youngest males’s participant to attain a world objective at Wembley.
Three days later, he turned the one participant underneath 18 to attain in two consecutive worldwide matches since Pelé, discovering the again of the online towards Spain in a 3-3 draw at Madrid’s Bernabéu stadium.
Brazil coach Dorival Junior mentioned he hopes the burden of expectation already being carried by Endrick doesn’t develop into an excessive amount of for the Madrid-bound participant.
“Let’s be very cautious with this boy,” mentioned Dorival in a post-match information convention following Brazil’s win towards Mexico.
“So much is occurring in his life in such a brief period of time. He maintains the essence. [The goal] is a vital issue, which supplies the participant confidence. We have now to be calm and affected person, with out [drawing] any comparability with one identify or one other. Endrick has to do it for himself.”
Endrick and Brazil are again in motion on Wednesday towards the United States in a Copa América warm-up recreation in Orlando, Florida.
Brazil start their Copa América on June 24 towards Costa Rica.