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Madrid: Record European football champions Real Madrid have announced the signing of Brazilian teenager Vinicius Junior of Flamengo for a reported transfer fee of around 45 million euros ($50.4 million).<\/p>\nMadrid: Record European football champions Real Madrid have announced the signing of Brazilian teenager Vinicius Junior of Flamengo for a reported transfer fee of around 45 million euros ($50.4 million).<\/p>\n
The deal will take effect in July next year but the 16-year-old will remain at Flamengo until July 2019, according to a Real Madrid statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Real Madrid are said to have beaten off interest in the teenager from a slew of other high-profile suitors, including Barcelona, Chelsea and Manchester United, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n
Vinicius made his first-team debut for Flamengo earlier this month. He is tied to the club until 2019 and had a 30 million euro ($33.73 million) release clause written into his contract.<\/p>\n
According to media reports in Brazil, it was the second-most expensive transfer in Brazilian football history after Neymar’s move to FC Barcelona in 2013.<\/p>\n
Dubbed as the next “Neymar”, Vinicius has been the standout young player at Flamengo since bursting onto the scene with the under-13 side.<\/p>\n
In March 2017, Junior helped Brazil win the Under-17 South American Championship, scoring seven goals and being named the tournament’s best player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Madrid: Record European football champions Real Madrid have announced the signing of Brazilian teenager Vinicius Junior of Flamengo for a reported transfer fee of around 45 million euros ($50.4 million).<\/p>\n
The deal will take effect in July next year but the 16-year-old will remain at Flamengo until July 2019, according to a Real Madrid statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Real Madrid are said to have beaten off interest in the teenager from a slew of other high-profile suitors, including Barcelona, Chelsea and Manchester United, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2278,1343,466,1475,22227],"class_list":["post-34840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news","tag-flamengo","tag-football","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-real-madrid","tag-vinicius-junior"],"yoast_head":"\n