No one better personifies the brutal change operated by Barça than Raphinha. It is a full -fledged metamorphosis. The numbers presented in the third season manifest a full -fledged, unusual, although explainable mutation.
Of raphinha cannon meat last summer, The clearest transfer of the template for the announced signing of Nico Williams and who gave him the Brazilian's dorsal, was said then, then, Al Rast of the contract without an urgency through. The original commitment, signed in 2022, ends in 2027. The conversations discuss the expansion until 2029 and an increase in the economic file, then limited by the restrictions suffered by Barça. An award, a sign of gratitude and an apology, all at once.
Raphinha surpasses Courtois in the fourth goal during the Barça-Madrid duel on Sunday. / Jordi Cotrina
Of Xav a Hans
That raphinha that Xavi Hernández signed contributed 10 goals and 12 assists in your first campaign With Barça, who was crowned league champion. That Raphinha calculated his performance in the second exercise (10 goals and 13 assists) in less matches: 50 to 37.
The raphinha transformed, Flick's raphinha, has 34 goals and 25 assists in 54 games. It is understandable that a three -band love has flourished between the footballer, the coach and the Barça fans, among whom millions of acts of contribution due to the consideration they had of the footballer, today turned into a leader and one of the captains must be counted.
Raphinha hugs Flick at the end of the match. / Jordi Cotrina
In front of Vinicius
“The renewal,” he told Movistar, is the most immediate matter that he hopes to solve Raphinha after the league's mathematical conquest. The triumph of Barça over Madrid in the Montjuïc classic (in the four of the season, five telling the friendly American) sealed the change of Spanish football cycle. He altered, in passing, the status of the Brazilians who intervened.
Vinicius was a soul in sorrow, While Raphinha was a lethal striker with his two goals, five in the last four days, plus two in the tie against Inter. The end contributed the goals that were missing in the absence of Robert Lewandowski, with whom it rivals in the offensive production: the Polish, a specialist in the area, has noted 40, for 35 The Brazilian, a free soul that has been released from the right wing. After the encounter, Raphinha felt a personal frustration that sifted the happiness of collective success. Although they gave the MVP trophy to the best of the game for its two goals.
Raphinha talks with Lewandowski in the idea of the fourth of the Champions before the Dortmund Bourus in Montjuic. / Jordi Cotrina / EPC_EXTERNAS
“I could have marked more. I have failed three occasions that I could not fail. I go out with the feeling that it could have done better,” he recognized severely to the microphones, lamenting the unnecessary suffering to which he submitted to Barcelonismo in a performance that touched the win to Madrid. “Yes, I am like that. I have a very high self -examination ”, Raphinha was justified on Sunday.
Vinicius and Raphinha greet themselves after the Cup final / STR / EFE
Pichichi in the Champions League
The player came to feel the disappointment of last Tuesday in Milan, by not coinciding the individual and collective purposes: he was crowned top scorer of the Champions League along with the Guinean Serhou Guirassy, of Borussia Dortmund (13 goals in 14 games both), but Barça fell eliminated before Inter. The Consuelo will have, when the selection is incorporated next June, and already under the orders of Carlo Ancelotti, to presume being the Brazilian who has marked so many in an edition of the Champions, Ahead of Neymar (Barça, 2015), Kaká (AC Milan, 2007) and Rivaldo (Barça, 2000), who stayed with ten.
Lamine Yamal and Raphinha celebrating the first goal to Benfica. / JORDI COTRINA / EPC
“I have always said that I arrived here to win titles and write my name in the history of the club,” says Raphinha about the order of his priorities. Now, feeling loved by Barcelonismo since Flick called him to see, chat and work together before deciding whether he left or not, he only thinks about staying and playing at Camp Nou. The millionaire temptation of Saudi Arabia, which will remain there.
