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Victoria Leite
Jun 15, 2025, 05:00 AM ET
Estêvão has said his determination to Chelsea is "a imagination travel true," portion adding that helium hopes to extremity his clip astatine Palmeiras connected a precocious astatine the Club World Cup this summer.
Chelsea signed the highly rated teen successful July 2024 successful woody that sources told ESPN was worth an archetypal €34 cardinal ($37m) with performance-related add-ons perchance taking the full to a fig successful the portion of €67m. The 18-year-old spent this play successful Brazil and is acceptable to articulation the Premier League broadside successful July aft the Club World Cup.
"It means everything. It's a imagination travel existent for me," Estêvão told ESPN Brasil astir his transportation to Chelsea.
"I've ever dreamed of playing successful Europe alongside the best. Playing successful important competitions, specified arsenic the Champions League and the Premier League. It's a imagination travel true. It volition beryllium precise important for my life.
"It's a imagination of excavation and my family's. It volition beryllium an unthinkable accidental to play for 1 of the biggest clubs successful the world. And I anticipation to get determination and accommodate arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. I privation to play. It's the happening I emotion doing most, what I bask most."
The Brazilian prodigy confirmed helium is taking English lessons up of the determination and that helium has spoken with midfielder Moisés Caicedo astir what to expect from his clip playing for the westbound London club.
Asked what helium is expecting from his clip successful England, Estêvão said: "Madness. It volition beryllium my archetypal time. And I'm going to stay. A movie plays successful my head, from wherever I came from to wherever I'm going.
"Of course, I cognize I volition person difficulties, but I volition beryllium with my family, who are the pillar of my life. It volition beryllium an important measurement for maine and my family. I anticipation it volition beryllium the champion imaginable way. London, Chelsea ... it couldn't beryllium better."
Estêvão, who has drawn comparisons to Lamine Yamal, has racked up much than 70 appearances for Palmeiras and was named breakthrough subordinate and champion striker successful Brazil's apical formation past season. The Club World Cup volition people the extremity of his clip astatine the Brazilian club.
"I conscionable anticipation it goes arsenic good arsenic possible. We are alert of the difficulties of the [Club] World Cup. But we besides cognize the worthy of our team. We person precise precocious expectations," helium said.
"We cognize the spot and quality of our team, but we besides cognize what we are going to face, with tremendous challenges. My caput is precise calm.
"I americium precise anxious to correspond Palmeiras successful this competition, which is truthful large for the full world. It volition beryllium an unthinkable accidental to amusement my imaginable successful these past moments astatine Palmeiras."
Estêvão has besides made 5 elder appearances for Brazil, the past of which came nether caller caput manager Carlo Ancelotti.
When asked astir what it's similar playing nether the erstwhile Real Madrid boss, helium said: "A batch of joy. It's 1 happening to spot him connected TV, with everything he's won, competing for everything, and different happening is to beryllium moving with him.
"He's a immense notation not lone here, but each implicit the world. Receiving this affection ... This clip with him is teaching maine a lot. I'm trying to bask it and get the astir retired of it to amended myself, to amended my shot and germinate much and more.
"This transportation with him is precise special. He's a precise nonstop and straightforward guy. He's besides a squad player, ever with america and talking to us. It's precise special."
Information from ESPN's James Olley contributed to this report.
