00:00Ederson, I remember when he arrived at Cruzeiro in 2018, it was a competition, because both Ederson and...
00:07Mauricio,
00:08We wanted to bring them to Cruzeiro, but Palmeiras also wanted them at the time.
00:12So there was a huge dispute, whether they were from Desportivo Brasil, whether Ederson and Maurício would come to...
00:18Cruzeiro,
00:18They were going to Palmeiras, but at the time the Cruzeiro board made a smart move.
00:24That for Ederson, he is older than Maurício, instead of him coming to the Under-20 team,
00:30He went straight to the professional,
00:31So that further attracted Ederson and Maurício to come to Cruzeiro.
00:37Speaking of Ederson, he arrived at Cruzeiro in 2018, training with the first team.
00:41So he was already training there with that Cruzeiro squad, which had very high-quality midfielders.
00:45Lucas Romero, Lucas Silva, Henrique, and so on, and he was in Cruzeiro's professional team.
00:52But then in 2019, I remember I had a lot of integration there with the professional team, Mano, Cruzeiro always,
00:59The Under-20 team always had many training sessions with the first team, and Mano spoke to me and said,
01:04Ricardo, Ederson isn't getting many opportunities here in the professional team because, really,
01:10Cruzeiro was doing very well in the Copa do Brasil, and he was still young in the Libertadores.
01:15And Lucas Romero was doing very well, Henrique, well, Lucas Silva, and he was doing a little bit,
01:21There was little room left, and we had to decide, Cruzeiro had to decide whether to exercise the purchase option.
01:25Whether Ederson is eligible or not, I wanted to discuss with you the possibility of him being sent down to the Under-20 team to play in the Cup.
01:31from Brazil
01:31In the Under-20s. Wow, man, of course, right? So, Ederson, actually, he trained with the first team,
01:37For example, until Thursday, and I would go down to the Under-20s to do the tactical training there, the preparation and
01:42to play.
01:43Ederson's debut for Cruzeiro's U-20 team was in the Copa do Brasil against Confiança.
01:48He played here, he had a pretty average game there, because he was still in training mode.
01:53But not with as much match rhythm, but he grew in the competition, right?
01:57Then we got, if I'm not mistaken, then Goiás and we, Corinthians,
02:01And then he started to improve. And I remember in the semi-final against Flamengo, right,
02:05We played two games, the second leg was in Volta Redonda, and we beat Flamengo.
02:10It was 4-1, and Ederson scored a beautiful goal, it drew a lot of attention.
02:14Finally, he performed very well in the Copa do Brasil, and that's when Cruzeiro exercised their option to buy him.
02:20And then later, in the second half of the year, there was a turbulent period at Cruzeiro.
02:25Some athletes left, so I moved up to be the assistant coach at the club.
02:29And Abel Braga really liked Ederson, so he started playing more as a starter in the professional team.
02:34With Ederson, right? He played there with Henrique Ederson and Thiago Neves, right?
02:38That was Cruzeiro's midfield, and Ederson did very well there, and now he's where he is, right?
02:43being called up to the Brazilian national team.
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