On his first start, captain Vitor Reis adds Brazil youth experience | OneFootball

At 20 years old, center-back Vitor Reis, of Manchester City, will make his debut for the Brazilian National Team this Friday (25), in a friendly against Australia, at 7 a.m. (Brasília time). A starter, the defender will partner Marquinhos in central defense. Despite receiving his first opportunity with the senior team, Vitor has already built an outstanding track record in Brazil’s youth national teams.

The center-back built a solid path through the national team’s youth ranks. Vitor served as captain and lifted the South American U-17 title, and he also captained the team at the 2023 U-17 World Cup. In October of that year, he was named by British newspaper The Guardian as one of the 60 young players in the world with the greatest potential.

In January 2025, Vitor Reis was transferred to Manchester City for 37 million euros (around R$232 million at the time), becoming the biggest sale in history for a Brazilian defender. In the same year, the center-back and Estêvão, of Chelsea, were the country’s only representatives on the traditional Wonderkids list, which highlights the 50 most promising U-20 players on the planet.

Vitor Reis received his first call-up before the World Cup

Vitor Reis’s first call-up to the senior national team came on March 26, 2026, when he was called up at the last minute by coach Carlo Ancelotti for a friendly against Croatia, after Gabriel Magalhães was ruled out due to injury.

“There are the young players who have already been with us: Estêvão, Rayan, Endrick — these will be very important. Vitor Reis, for example. Naming players is complicated, but there are young players in the Brasileirão, goalkeepers who are playing and showing the quality to potentially be part of the national team,” Ancelotti said in an interview given in September.

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