Neymar congratulates Serginho for his goal in Maringá’s victory over Flamengo

The player Serginho was the author of one of the goals of the club from Paraná in yesterday’s victory (13) over Flamengo. Neymar made a publication last night congratulating midfielder Serginho do Maringá, who scored one of the goals in the victory over Flamengo in the third phase of the Copa do Brasil.

Neymar and Serginho played for Santos in the youth and professional categories. The two remain friends to this day. “Happy Birthday brother. Happy for you“, published Neymar on his social network.

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The player has been at the club from Paraná since the beginning of the year, has three goals in the Paraná championship, and yesterday’s goal was the first in the competition.

Serginho was part of the squad of Santos that was champion of São Paulo in 2010, where Neymar was one of the great highlights of the team alongside Paulo Henrique Ganso, today, a Fluminense player.

In addition to the fish, the midfielder also had spells at Palmeiras, Ceara, Ituano (he was champion of the São Paulo interior championship in 2011 and the Brazilian SERIE C Championship in 2012) and abroad for the Matsumoto Yamaga team. Last year he returned to Brazil and defended Paysandu, and now he defends the Dogão team (nickname of the team from Paraná).

Maringá won by the score of 2 to 0 at home, in addition to Serginho, the other goal was scored against defender David Luiz. The return game will be held on April 26th at Maracanã, Maringá may even lose by a goal difference that will be classified, while Flamengo needs to win by three goals difference if it wants to win the vacancy for the round of 16 Final.

Sunday, the red black debut in the Brazilian Championship against Coritiba in Rio Janeiro, as for Maringá, the next commitment will be precisely the return game, as it will only debut at the beginning of May for the Brazilian Series D against XV de Piracicaba.

Featured Photo: Serginho and Neymar. Playback/Fernando Teramatsu/Instagram