{"id":379029,"date":"2025-11-14T19:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/379029\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:41:20","slug":"chelsea-impressed-by-brazil-under-17-international-felipe-morais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/379029\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea impressed by Brazil Under-17 international Felipe Morais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have been impressed by the performances of Brazil player Felipe Morais at the Under-17 World Cup according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have three youngsters representing England at the tournament in Reggie Walsh, Landon Emenalo and Chizaram Ezenwata.<\/p>\n<p>Scouts from all of Europe\u2019s top clubs will no doubt be in attendance as they look to discover the future stars of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea impressed by Felipe Morais<\/p>\n<p>As has been the case since Chelsea were taken over by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital, the Blues have targeted the best young talent from around the World.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazil under-17 team is believed to have caught the eye of scouts, and <a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2025\/03\/chelsea-corinthians-denner-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chelsea have already agreed a deal for Denner.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NurPhoto-via-Getty-Images.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-153346 has-webp\" alt=\"Felipe Morais in action at the Under-17 World Cup.\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1536\/1016;max-width:1536px\"\/>Morais has caught the eye at the Under-17 World Cup. (Photo by Noushad Thekkayil\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>However, it appears another Brazilian youngster has appeared on their radar, and journalist Graeme Bailey has reported the Blues have been impressed by Morais.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne Brazilian who everyone is loving is Felipe Morais,\u201d he said as quoted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Blue_Footy\/status\/1989284798012006439\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStunning player, fabulous technician. Everything about him. He\u2019s really stood out and really caught the attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot that clubs didn\u2019t know about him, but he\u2019s obviously only turned 17 in August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s one who has impressed Chelsea. He\u2019s stood out. A scout said to me a real majestic Kaka-type player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South American market heavily targeted<\/p>\n<p>Morais is an attacking midfielder who\u2019s scored twice at the competition, and he wouldn\u2019t be the first South American youngster to make the switch to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\tMore Stories \/ Latest News<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2025\/11\/estevao-adapting-to-life-at-chelsea\/\" title=\"\u201cOne of the most important things\u201d \u2013 Estevao reveals secret behind his impressive start at Chelsea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Working-copy-of-CNFeaturedHero-Image-Templates-60.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-144019 has-webp lazyload\" alt=\"Estevao Willian warms up.\"  data-\/>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2025\/11\/disasi-first-team-policy-change\/\" title=\"Former Chelsea starter to return to first team after mysterious change of club policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Working-copy-of-CNFeaturedHero-Image-Templates-4.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-139002 has-webp lazyload\" alt=\"Axel Disasi with a Chelsea logo.\"  data-\/>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2025\/11\/caicedo-chelsea-fastest-strongest-funniest\/\" title=\"Moises Caicedo names Chelsea\u2019s fastest, strongest and funniest players in quickfire interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Working-copy-of-CNFeaturedHero-Image-Templates-24.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-136895 has-webp lazyload\" alt=\"Moises Caicedo speaks to the press.\"  data-\/>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have heavily targeted the continent, with <a href=\"https:\/\/chelsea.news\/2025\/11\/andrey-santos-estevao-relationship-chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Estevao and Andrey Santos part of the first team set up<\/a> whilst Kendry Paez and Aaron Anselmino are on loan at Strasbourg and Borussia Dortmund respectively.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s clearly plenty of talent in South America, and Chelsea have had success, but there\u2019s also been signings which haven\u2019t worked out such as Angelo and Deivid Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea have been impressed by the performances of Brazil player Felipe Morais at the Under-17 World Cup according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":379030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-379029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115549758488884748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}