This 2024/25 season may be a great season of Raphinha. Along with Lamine Yamal, he is contributing significant effort to help Barcelona enter the semi -finals of the Champions League, as well as the leader of La Liga and the championship of the Spanish King’s Cup. The Barca striker is also a key player of the Brazilian national team. But not always. A few years ago, there was a little missing Raphinha accepted the competition for the Italian team instead of the Brazilian national team.
Need to know, in 2021, Raphinha for the first time in Brazil and so far, the player born in 1996 had 33 appearances for Selecao. But only 1 year earlier, Raphinha was very close to playing for Italy. Raphinha was born and raised in Restinga, a poor house located away from the center of Porto Alegre. It is known that Raphinha’s father is an Italian man. Therefore, Raphinha is eligible for Italy.
Raphinha confirmed this to journalist Isabela Pagliari on her YouTube channel: “I almost accepted the summons to the Italian national team.” Raphinha also revealed why he didn’t wear Azzurri’s shirt in the end. “I was going to go to Euro 2020, where Ltalia won when he defeated England in the final. I was almost ready to go. Fortunately, my passport was malfunctioning,” Raphinha added.
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