{"id":383712,"date":"2025-03-06T11:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=383712"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:45:36","slug":"uae-national-team-calls-up-eight-brazilian-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/uae-national-team-calls-up-eight-brazilian-players\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE national team calls up eight Brazilian players"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Eight Brazilian football players naturalized as Emiratis have been called up to represent the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uaefa.ae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Arab Emirates national team<\/a> in the upcoming Asian qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. They will play against Iran in Tehran on the 20th and North Korea in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The players were called up by Portuguese coach Paulo Bento, who previously managed Cruzeiro in Brazil. They are forwards Bruno de Oliveira (Al Jazira), Caio Correia, Fabio de Lima, and Caio Lucas (Sharjah FC), left winger Jonatas Santos (Al Wasl), midfielder Luan Pereira (Sharjah FC), defender Lucas Pimenta (Al Wahda), and right-back Marcus Vinicius Meloni (Sharjah FC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonatas Santos and Caio Lucas were called up to represent the national team for the first time. In an Instagram post, Santos said he arrived in the UAE five years ago and will give back \u201ceverything\u201d he has received as a player and as a person. \u201cThe UAE can count on me to give 110% on the field to achieve the goals and dreams of our great nation,\u201d he said. The athlete was revealed by FSA Esporte Clube, from Feira de Santana, Bahia state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caio Lucas, 30, left Am\u00e9rica de S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 do Rio Preto, in S\u00e3o Paulo state, in the early 2000s to play for teams in Japan, Portugal, and the UAE. The UAE national team is currently in third place in Group A of the Asian qualifiers, with 10 points. They are behind Iran, with 16 points, and Uzbekistan, with 13, and ahead of Qatar (7 points), Kyrgyzstan (6), and North Korea (6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more:<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-named-al-ittihad-womens-football-coach\/\">Women\u2019s football: Brazilian named Al Ittihad coach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-383710\">\u00a9Fadel Senna\/AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of them are naturalized Emiratis and will represent the country in two matches for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":383710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[52568,52569,5898,3260,9579],"class_list":{"0":"post-383712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-al-wahda-2","9":"tag-al-wasl-2","10":"tag-brazilians","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-uae-en"},"wps_subtitle":"All of them are naturalized Emiratis and will represent the country in two matches for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}