Wolverhampton have announced the signing of Mateus Nunes from Sporting Lisbon for a fee of 45 million euros. This is a record sum for compensation paid by the club, and the 23-year-old Portuguese midfielder has signed a contract until 2027.
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Nunes is the third player who arrived in the locker room of the team coached by Bruno Lage this summer. He was preceded by midfielder Goncalo Guedes from Valencia and defender Nathan Collins from Burnley. However, the newest name in the dressing room also has the most interesting football story.
The boy who grew up in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, idolizing Ronaldinho, joined his mother and stepfather in Portugal when he was 13. Today he is a great soccer player, and just three years ago he was working in a bakery and playing soccer in his free time, training at Sporting Lisbon’s academy and dreaming of having a great career.
“There were times when we had nothing to eat, and my mother never stopped working.” She is a warrior who instilled in me the love of football. We didn’t have a ball, but my brothers and I played with socks, all that mattered was that they rolled. “To this day, my mother says she doesn’t know how we managed to grow up to be a thief or a dealer,” Núñez said.
He had to work to feed his family.
“I worked in a bakery for about five or six months. I came in the morning because training and matches were in the afternoon. I was on my feet for five or six hours, and then I had to train. “I can’t say it was easy, I didn’t have a driver’s license, so I woke up at five in the morning because I went to work by bike,” recalls Mateus Núñez.
Now he no longer has to worry about livelihood, neither he nor his family.
