Until his severe knee injury, which he suffered from Tottenham Hotspur’s bitter, Kaua Santos at Eintracht Frankfurt had just caused a wax withdrawal in the goal. Now the Brazilian keeper left no doubt that he wanted to stand in the goalkeeper hierarchy again after his return.
“First of all, it’s time for me to get fit. But of course I hope that I can stand in the goal again. I worked on that so hard,” said Kaua Santos in the “Sport Bild” interview. The 22-year-old has failed with a cruciate ligament tear in the right knee since mid-April and will probably only be competitive again in September.
Until then, the long -time regular goalkeeper Kevin Trapp will get the opportunity to sustainably recommended as the number one between the Frankfurt posts.
Despite the special competitive situation at Eintracht Frankfurt with the twelve -year -old Trapp, Kaua Santos emphasized that he had a good relationship with the former German national goalkeeper: that was it from the start. Kevin speaks Portuguese and helped me a lot. We learn a lot from each other, it is a healthy competition, “said the 1.96-meter giant, who had played 14 competitive games for the eagle bearers up to his injury.
Kaua Santos wants to go with Brazil for the 2026 World Cup
The promotion of the Trapp representative (laboratories in March and April on a shin injury) to the supposedly new number one in the SGE goal was fluent in spring, as Kaua Santos reported: “Nobody spoke to me about who is now number one or number two. I just continued and showed what was in me.
At the moment, the goalkeeper goes through various rehabilitation measures to be able to stand in the box of Hesse again in autumn. The keeper’s long -term goal remains the nomination in Brazil’s squad for the 2026 World Cup.