Luciano reveals spat with Volpi, opens up, humble after matching Careca | OneFootball

Luciano was the standout player in São Paulo’s 2-1 win over Bragantino on Saturday night at Morumbi. Wearing the No. 10 shirt, he opened the scoring from the penalty spot after a lot of gamesmanship from opposing goalkeeper Volpi, an old acquaintance of the striker.

“He kept saying I was going to shoot across goal, I told him I wouldn’t, but in the end I took an excellent penalty. I knew (Volpi), I had already scored a penalty against him when he was at São Paulo while I was at Grêmio, but we also worked together. He’s a great goalkeeper, but thank God today, with the support of our fans, we came away with the win,” Luciano told SporTV as he left the pitch.

Tricolor’s captain in the match, Luciano did not fail to mention the club’s off-field problems, which, according to the player’s outburst, do end up hurting the team.

“Like I always say, São Paulo is huge and is going through the worst phase in its history. A lot of things that happen off the pitch, sometimes we try to say they don’t affect us, but sometimes they do. Sometimes a shot off the post against Chapecoense goes in, sometimes it doesn’t, you know? It’s that kind of thing.”

“What I want to tell the fans is that we’re going to fight for this shirt, so that São Paulo can once again be the São Paulo that every fan who saw it in the past can see shine again in the future, because that’s what São Paulo is, it’s a massive club, and I hope that from now on São Paulo shines again and wins major titles again,” the top scorer added.

Luciano reached 115 goals in a São Paulo shirt, drawing level with a true club legend, Careca, the center forward who made his mark in the 1980s. After reaching the incredible milestone, he remained humble.

“Today I was able to draw level with a legend (Careca), but like I said, Luciano is still a long way from those São Paulo legends,” the Tricolor player concluded.

Looking to improve things even further, Tricolor will return to the pitch only at 6:30 p.m. (Brasília time) next Saturday (9/5), once again at Morumbi, aiming to fully confirm its rise in the Brasileirão.

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