No one knows tomorrow. Pictures of this football star have been trending
over social media platforms and the reason is very obvious. Four years
ago, Manchester City striker, Gabriel Jesus was painting the streets in
preparation for the Brazil 2014 World Cup.
Yesterday, Gabriel Jesus started in Brazil’s first match against
Switzerland at the ongoing world cup tournament. The match ended in a
1-1 draw.
The viral pictures from 2014 show a 17-year-old Gabriel Jesus, brush
in hand, helping to paint the street where he lived as World Cup fever
swept Brazil. Four years on, 21-year-old Jesus is no longer the painter
but the painted.
It has been a meteoric rise for a player whose £27 million move to
Manchester City from Palmeiras in January last year introduced an
European audience to a talent on which Brazil are pinning so many hopes.
He helped Manchester City demolish a series of records en route to
lifting the Premier League title and now he’s in Russia trying to help
his country.
Now, several adjoining houses in Jardim Peri, the Sao Paulo
neighbourhood where he grew up, have been painted with an image of Jesus
performing his now familiar goal celebration, where he pretends to
phone his mother, Dona Vera, his biggest fan and harshest critic.
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