Burnley defender Vitinho: ‘A Brazil call-up is my goal. I will achieve it’

23-Sep-2023 06:50:29 | The Guardian

The full-back has taken the long way to the top, from Belo Horizonte to Burnley via Belgium, and he is not stopping now

By Josué Seixas for the Guardian Sport Network

Vitinho has come a long way but he wants to achieve even greater things. Having grown up in Belo Horizonte, resettled in Belgium as an 18-year-old and won the Championship with Burnley, he now dreams of representing Brazil at the next World Cup.

The full-back was a regular for the Under-20s but he is yet to make his debut for the senior side. With Marcelo and Dani Alves no longer galavanting up and down the wings, Brazil need new blood at full-back. Fernando Diniz, the manager of the national side, picked Danilo at right-back and Renan Lodi on the left for their World Cup qualifiers against Bolivia and Peru earlier this month, but Vitinho believes he has what it takes to step up.