Alisson’s nightmare: he risked quitting because he was “small and fat”

One of the highest paid goalkeepers of all time may not have been a goalkeeper. In fact, he might not even play football, even though it had been his dream since he was a child. Yet Alisson seriously risked hanging up his gloves, convinced by someone that he would never make it. But luckily there was a guardian angel in the Porto Alegre Internacional youth team who watched over the growth (in every sense) of the goalkeeper. Who from “small and fat” found himself in Olympus in the ball. And, as he told some time ago to the Sun, Daniel Pavan has every reason in the world to be proud of Alisson’s career.

GOODBYE TO FOOTBALL – Yeah, because, strange to say, it didn’t always seem so obvious that the Brazilian would explode … “I am very happy and proud to have seen Alisson play the World Cup and to have moved to one of the best clubs in the world. When he started he had slower growth than the other guys, so as a goalkeeper he was short and had weight problems. And this sometimes cost him the starting shirt and forced him on the bench. And one day his parents came looking for me, they thought he had no future in football and they wanted him to leave the ball“A drastic choice, but partially justified by the concerns of a family for their child.

GLUTTONOUS – “They thought that a better future would be built with his studies and that he would have to leave Internacional, but I managed to convince them that Alisson only had to finish his development phase and that he would have a great future as a goalkeeper. He was slower than the boys of his age, but in terms of technical gestures there was no competition “. And in the end Pavan was definitely right, but he had to sweat seven shirts to explain to the very young Alisson that perhaps his predilection for sweets and carbonated drinks was not to be indulged to the end. But in the end nature ran its course and former “little fat” Alisson Becker is now a mountain of muscle and one of the best goalkeepers in the world. Fortunately, someone believed in him. Otherwise, it would have been too enormous a waste of talent for a football that needs it more and more.