How old is Vinicius Junior?

Vinicius Junior is a rising soccer star of Brazilian origins who is currently (as of the mid 2023) playing for Real Madrid and is one of the key wingers of the national team of Brazil. Born in 2000 in the southern part of Brazil, he grew up in a very poor family in the city of Sao Goncalo and stepped on the path of a devoted soccer player at the age of 6 when his father took him to a junior team of Flamengo club. In the late 2000s he had some practice as a futsal player, and during the next decade he continued hard training to get ready to become a future soccer star. in 2017 he debuted as a Flamengo player in Serie A and immediately started demonstrating very good results, so just a more than a year later he was noticed and invited to move to Spain and become a player of Real Madrid. The offer was accepted by him gladly and since then Vinicius Junior has been starring as a left winger in La Liga. He contributed greatly in his team's winning the Spanish championship title in 2021-2022 by scoring the winning goal at the end of the match.

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