{"id":860326,"date":"2025-07-05T19:15:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/maresca-and-palmer-excited-by-fantastic-estevao\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T19:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T00:15:59","slug":"maresca-and-palmer-excited-by-fantastic-estevao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/maresca-and-palmer-excited-by-fantastic-estevao\/","title":{"rendered":"Maresca and Palmer excited by \u00b4fantastic\u00b4 Estevao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmwebhandler.aff-online.com\/C\/35442?sr=155474&#038;anid=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.soccernews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/SN\/images\/300x250_HR.gif\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Enzo Maresca and Cole Palmer are excited to welcome Estevao to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Estevao scored a superb goal against his soon-to-be club on Friday, but Chelsea saw off Palmeiras 2-1 at the Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian wonderkid will now link up with Chelsea after the Blues\u2019 Club World Cup campaign is concluded \u2013 Maresca\u2019s team will take on Fluminense in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Estevao\u2019s goal made him the second-youngest player to score at this edition of the Club World Cup, and Maresca knows Chelsea have a huge talent on their hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy because we won and also happy because Estevao scored, the perfect night,\u201d the Italian said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is very good, a huge talent, fantastic player. The only thing is when you come from South America or another part of the world, you need to adapt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to help him to adapt. We have no doubt he will be an important player for Chelsea.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">18-71 \u2013 At 18 years, 71 days old, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Palmeiras?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Palmeiras<\/a>\u2018 Est\u00eav\u00e3o is the second-youngest goal scorer at this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFACWC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FIFACWC<\/a> (FC Porto\u2019s Rodrigo Mora \u2013 18 years, 49 days vs. Al Ahly). Introduction. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CBXRnw6pQJ\">pic.twitter.com\/CBXRnw6pQJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaJoe\/status\/1941320583897284668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Palmer, who scored Chelsea\u2019s opener, spoke to Estevao after the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see he is a top player, so it is very exciting,\u201d Palmer said of Estevao, who had eight touches in Chelsea\u2019s box, the most of any Palmeiras player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just said to him we are excited for him to join \u2013 but he didn\u2019t understand a single word I said!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Estevao is sad to be leaving Palmeiras, but is thrilled to get a chance to star in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPalmeiras opened the door for me. I was deeply happy in Palmeiras and my family knows how happy I was,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy I could score a goal to help my club. Unfortunately this wasn\u2019t the result we wanted but we gave our best and now I am moving on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soccernews.com\/maresca-and-palmer-excited-by-fantastic-estevao\/387349\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>SoccerNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Enzo Maresca and Cole Palmer are excited to welcome Estevao to Chelsea. Estevao scored a superb goal against his soon-to-be club on Friday, but Chelsea saw off Palmeiras 2-1 at the Club World Cup. The Brazilian wonderkid will now link up with Chelsea after the Blues\u2019 Club World Cup campaign is concluded \u2013 Maresca\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":860327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133007,32877,2005],"tags":[133006,20203],"class_list":{"0":"post-860326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-maresca","8":"category-palmer","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-maresca","11":"tag-palmer"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}