This is how Raphinha plays, Barça's new Brazilian 'star'

The signing of Raphinha by the FC Barcelona is a reality. The attacker will join to the discipline culé by the next five seasons, until the summer of 2027, after the club disbursed 58 million fixed euros that they could increase until the 67 'kilos' if they fulfil all the variables. It will land in the Spotify Camp Nou after ensuring the permanence of the Leeds United in the Premier, being the fundamental axis of the offensive of Jesse Marsch.

His role in England has been always by the right band, playing to leg changed and taking advantage of his potential of desborde in the one against one. The diagram 4-2-3-1 is the one who handled the ones of Yorkshire in the majority of meetings, resorting to his advanced by the side and in his quality of dribbling to cause impact in the rival defenders, something that knows Xavi Hernández at first hand with Ousmane Dembélé.

Raphinha Attained to see door in eleven opportunities and deliver three assistances during 36 commitments in his last campaign with the Leeds, achieving be the 'Pichichi' and the maximum offensive referent of the team. However, his step has gone of less to more since it went out of the Sub-20 of the Avaí Brazilian, going through the Vitoria Guimaraes of Portugal and afterwards by the Sporting of Lisbon in 2019, club that opened him the door to the European elite.

It Tie it 1 it interested in his traspaso and the Rennes disbursed 21 million euros in his signing, although so alone a year afterwards would be the Leeds the one who would obtain his pass to finish to expose his quality in the most important league of the 'old continent'. Now, two years after his incorporation, the '10' will arrive to Barcelona like one of the most important signings of this 2022 and with the opportunity to leave his footprint in one of the sportive enclosures more laureados to world-wide level.

Dribbling, speed and style

His dribbling is characteristic of the player 'canarinho' but his stride when running is one of his virtues to individual level. With 1.76 metres of height, can evade to the rivals in the hammer in short and generate a big quantity of faults because of his style of game. Added to this, his vision of the field is another of his virtues, what allows to create opportunities still without having the balloon in his power.

In spite of that the philosophy of game of the Barcelona recae in the possession, Xavi has given him a twist to the small nuances and has kept to the extremes like constant threats in his tactical system. The centres to the area and the arrivals by the sides are something that the egarense wishes to explode, by what Raphinha is a player that fits to perfection in this 'new' ideology that wants to implement in the dynamics of the club.