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Porsche Taycan


The Brazilian midfield dynamo got a taste for automobiles during his time in Italy, were he spent 8 years with Serie A outfits Udinese and SSC Napoli. Here's a young Miguel with his dad's favourite car, an old fashioned Porsche!

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 8th, 1991, O Motor, like all Brazilians, began his footballing journey in the streets of Rio long before he was picked up by the academy of Madureira in 2007. A year later he moved to Vasco da Gama, and it is here where he would get his first taste of professional football. Playing an instrumental part in the club’s success, he helped them earn promotion from Série B to the top flight of Brazilian football. Shortly afterwards, he was scouted by Italian Serie A club Udinese, and duly made the switch from South America to Europe in 2012. O Motor was an instant hit on foreign soil, featuring in all but two Serie A fixtures in his debut season and helping I Bianconeri to a fifth placed finish. The box-to-box midfielder went on to play in 116 games for Udinese, establishing himself as one of the finest defensive midfielders in Europe. On July 21st, 2015, fellow Serie A club SSC Napoli signed the Brazilian for a fee of €10 million. The midfield dynamo enjoyed great success with Gli Azzurri, playing in over 200 games, with the club coming close to winning Serie A on a couple of occasions. Napoli and O Motor would not be denied at the last and his final season saw the club triumph in the Coppa Italia. The summer of 2019 would be a big one for O Motor as the midfielder went on to win the Copa América with Brazil. The following summer the Brazilian wrapped up his Italian adventures and set sail for England, signing for Premier League club Everton.