00:00Still unknown to the general public, he will compete with Erling Haaland in terms of goals in the first league, but who is Igor Thiago?
00:05Born on June 26, 2001 in Tucurui, Brazil, he will be trained at Cro-Zero, a historic club in Brazilian football.
00:10He will sign his first professional contract there.
00:12On January 23, 2020, Igor Thiago will make his professional debut and will score in his first match.
00:17There, he will score 10 goals in 64 games, but you should know that there, he will not develop a Brazilian style, ultra technical, etc.
00:23No, he will become a one-on-one player, an impact player, a player who will impose himself physically.
00:28In 2022, it was his turn to join European football, but this time through the back door, since he was going to Bulgaria to play for Ludo Goretz.
00:34So it's not a club in the middle of nowhere, it's a European club.
00:37In two seasons there, he will discover the European Cup, he will score 21 goals in 55 matches, and will add a Bulgarian championship title and a Bulgarian Cup to his list of achievements.
00:45In the summer of 2023, he will be heading to Belgium, as he will sign with the Bruges club.
00:48For him there, it's going to be a major turning point; he'll show statistical promise, he'll have a 2023-2024 season with 29 goals.
00:54and he is increasingly establishing himself as a pure number 9, capable of playing with his back to goal, attacking the space in behind,
00:59but also to put pressure on the defenses, and physically becomes a monster.
01:02In the summer of 2024, that's it, it's the big leap for him, as he will join the Premier League and Brainford, for an amount of 25 million euros.
01:08Except that his beginnings were nightmarish.
01:10He will be seriously injured, first in the knee, then in the meniscus; he will have virtually no playing time in the first league.
01:16But Igor will persevere, and in the 2025-2026 season, he will explode onto the scene.
01:20From the outset, he was established as a regular starter, he began scoring braces in quick succession, and he even scored a hat-trick against Everton.
01:25And with 16 goals in 21 matches, Igor Thiago is the second-highest scorer in the Premier League.
01:29But above all, he goes down in Premier League history as the most prolific neighbour in a single season.
01:33And this monstrous season could well open one thing for him: the doors to the CDSAO to compete in the World Cup in 2026.
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