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This Friday’s game between Guarani and Palm Trees, at 20h (from Brasília), for Paulistão, it will be special for the midfielder Gustavo Scarpa: it’s the first time he’s playing in the Princess’s Gold Earring.
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And why is a late game in the seventh round of the state so special for the player? Because he played for Guarani between eight and 13 years old, but never had the chance to play at the Bugre stadium.
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Scarpa when working at Guarani – Photo: Personal archive
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Scarpa defended Bugre in futsal, society and field football, before pursuing a career in other clubs. Now, 15 years later, you will have the chance to play for the first time on site.
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– For sure, it will be a special and very good feeling. Every time I stop by Guarani, when I’m walking in Campinas, I feel happy and I always comment with my fiancée: wow, here it was cool, I spent good years of my life and such. She even got tired of it so much that I talk about it with her. Despite not having attended the Golden Earring much, I always dreamed of playing there and I am very happy because that dream can be realized – he said, give.
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Gustavo Scarpa crouched, in the center, with his hand on the ball: Palmeiras midfielder has played in Guarani – Photo: Personal Archive
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In the times that Palmeiras has played for Brinco de Ouro since Scarpa arrived in 2018, he was not available to act.
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In addition to the memories, there is another thing that Gustavo Scarpa brings from the Guarani times: to shirt 14. It was there that he used the number for the first time.
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– Shirt number 14 started because of my father. He liked Cruyff a lot and I chose that number. When I arrived at Palmeiras, I used 10 at Fluminense and Alexandre Mattos told me to choose a number. As Moises used 10 at the time, I asked about 14. If I was free, it would be cool – he said.
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Gustavo Scarpa with shirt 14 in Guarani times – Photo: Personal archive
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This Friday night will be a day of memories for the Palmeiras player. And he says what he would say if he could to the boy Gustavo Scarpa who wore Guarani’s shirt and dreamed of being a football player.
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– I think I would say the same thing that I say to boys who are trying to be players and ask me for advice. You have to believe in your dreams, because it’s really worth it. Do what you can to accomplish them so that after a few years you don’t look back with that feeling of regret and that you could have done more, that you could have given up some things and such.
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In this Friday’s game, Gustavo Scarpa should be in the starting lineup for Palmeiras once again. So far this season he has one goal and three assists, being the leader in goal passes, as well as being the second with the most direct goal appearances, behind only Raphael Veiga.
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