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Forward Petterson had his visa regularized and leaves this Thursday (25) for Portugal. Flamengo loaned the 20-year-old player to Estrela Amadora, a team in Portugal's first division. The loan contract between the Portuguese club and Mengão runs until June 2025.

If Estrela Amadora chooses to buy the player, they will have to pay the amount of €750,000 (R$4.4 million ) for 60% of Petterson's economic rights. The information is from Flazoeiro. With 9 goals in 30 games in the 2023 season, the player won three titles in Mengão's youth categories: the Campeonato Brasileiro and the Copa do Brasil under-17, both in 2021, and the Brasileirão Under-20 in 2023. After a During his loan period at Athletico Paranaense, Petterson packed his bags for Portugal.

At the Paraná club, he debuted with a goal, but an act of indiscipline caused him to be removed and no longer play. He even had a new loan to Avaí, which didn't happen. Now he will have another chance to prove himself.

The club finished the last season of the Portuguese League in 14th place, with seven wins, 15 defeats and 12 draws. In the League Cup, the team was eliminated in the first round; in the Portuguese Cup, Estrela Amadora fell through in the fourth round.

The result in the Portuguese Championship, however, was considered satisfactory. This is because the team returned to compete in the local elite after 15 years. The objective was maintenance.

In the new team, Petterson can expect to find many Brazilians among his teammates. The club has names like André Luiz and Daniel Cabral (both ex-Flamengo), Bruno Brígido (ex-Criciúma) and Léo Jabá (ex-Corinthians). Currently the club plays in the pre-season of European football.

Without leading a team since September 2023, when he was fired by Flamengo shortly after the defeat in the Copa do Brasil decision, Jorge Sampaoli opened up about the experience he had in his third job in Brazilian football. The Argentine was in charge of Rubro-Negro for just over five months, and also coached Santos and Atlético-MG in Brazil.

Speaking in an interview with Spanish newspaper Marca, Sampaoli highlighted the level of demand of the Brasileirão, and did not hesitate to refer to Flamengo as “the biggest club in the world”.

“Brazil is the most demanding league I have participated in”, said the coach. “Ten thousand times more than the Spanish, for example. It's played every two days, you have to win always, always, always. Even more so in Flamengo. There is great popular demand at airports, in hotels, everything is very intense. Flamengo is the biggest club in the world, with 45 million fans. You can't lose a single game.”

The coach ended his time at Flamengo with 39 games played between April and September 2023.

There were 20 wins, 11 draws and eight defeats during the period, in a termination agreement that cost R$9.5 million to the red and black coffers.

“They evaluate you by the numbers. At Flamengo we got 70% of the points, but that wasn't enough. In Brazil, if you don't win, you have to leave. We lost the final (of the Copa do Brasil to São Paulo) and left. Losing teaches us, even more so if we have time to review our mistakes”, said the coach, who also responded about the reason why he still keeps Rio de Janeiro as his home.

“I did very well at Santos , at Atlético-MG and a little at Flamengo. My youngest children were born in Brazil, although my partner is Chilean. We adapted to Rio.”

When asked by the report if he would accept taking over a team in Brazilian football again, Sampaoli left the doors open.

“I would accept. I would also like to train in Europe or anywhere in the world where there is a serious and lasting project. In Brazil, the madness is excessive, and every three games they fire a coach. In Europe I notice a little more patience. There is a lot of urgency to win and playing is not valued.”