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sport">The 22-year-old Brazilian has been under contract with the Eindhoven club for five years, which took him over from Desportivo Brasil Participações in 2017. In total, the footballer came to 78 duels, 7 goals and 11 assists for the Brabanders.
sport">In 2019-2020, Mauro Junior gained experience on a rental basis at Heracles. This season, the attacking midfielder started as a left back at PSV, after Philipp Max temporarily fell away with a corona infection. Trainer Roger Schmidt liked that so much that he left the left leg. It has now moved to the right.
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Mauro Junior is still a youngster at 22 years old.
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Orange
sport">With a Dutch passport in his pocket, Mauro Junior can possibly make an appearance in Orange. However, the versatile South American, who played for various Brazilian youth teams, has formidable competition, especially in the left-back position.
sport">With the Dutch national team, Ajax player and 88-times international Daley Blind has been a certainty for Louis van Gaal for some time. The national coach also has AZ talent Owen Wijndal on hand. In addition, Feyenoord player Tyrell Malacia knocks on the door. Mitchel Bakker is also working on a good season at Bayer Leverkusen in the strongly occupied Bundesliga.
Transfer
sport">A Dutch passport can also make it easier for Mauro Junior to make a transfer. Once he is an official EU citizen, European clubs will no longer have to pay him an extra high salary. Because football players from outside the so-called European Economic Area (EEA) must have a clear sporting added value, a financial threshold has been set that obliges clubs to offer such players a higher compensation. This is so that clubs cannot steal dozens of young players from another continent, as a result of which talents from their own country are pushed aside.
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Former FC Twente player Douglas was called up for the Orange squad in 2012, but did not play.
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Douglas
sport">In the past, Brazilian FC Twente defender Douglas Franco Teixeira, now 34 years old, also took the Dutch identity. Although he was called up a few times for the Orange squad, it did not come to a debut.
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