We take a closer look at liverpool's new signing Roberto Firmino. The brazilian attacker is currently on international duty at the copa America and will soon be on his way to england after he completes his switch to The Reds for a reported £21m deal with Hoffenheim.
Name:Roberto Firmino
Age:23
Position:Midfield forward
Club:1899 Hoffenheim
Nation:Brazil(Nine appearance,four goals)
Hooked in from the second tier of Brazilian football by german club Hoofenheim in 2010 - struggled to adapt to foreign aridity as it took us three seasons to get the best of this brazilian legs in German conditions.
Since the start of 2013/14 ,Firmino has weighed in with 23 goals and 21 assists in the german top flight,and has attracted interested from several of Europe's elite club.He was a stand-out performer for Hoffenhaim in the Bundesliga this season as he scored seven goals and assisted a further 10 - a total bettered only by Manchester city target Kevin De Bruyne and Zlatko Junuzovic.
Firmino said that it was his "dream" to play in the national team.On 23 October 2014, Firmino received his first call up to Brazil national football team for the friendly matches against Turkey and Austria. The 23-Year Old has excelled his performance for his Nation too as he has been in the bunch of key players after Brazil looks to bounce back for the Mineirao Massacre at the hands of eventual World Cup champions Germany one year ago, Firmino has offered returning coach Dunga a new lease of life.He's currently in Chile with the Brazil squad at the Copa America, where he found the net in a 2-1 win against Venezuela.
What he does provide, though, is an unrelenting work ethic. In that respect, he is similar to Luis Suárez and Alexis Sánchez. He will harry and press the opponents until he drops. In one match report in Germany he was described as the “clever, first stealer of balls in Hoffenheim’s pressing system”.
Holger Stanislawski, his first manager at Hoffenheim, immediately described him as being “unbelievably good tactically”, which will be music to Brendan Rodgers’ ears after a season of having to teach Mario Balotelli, among other things, how to defend at corners.
In fact he has been showered with praise for most of his time in Germany, the papers describing him as one of few players “who stay focused for the entire 90 minutes” and a “master of moving around without anyone noticing him, to provide goals or score them himself”.
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