The likelihood of Leo Baptistao playing for Spain is becoming more and more of a reality. The Brazilian player, who is having a great season at Rayo Vallecano, has a great future ahead of him in the spanish league.
Baptistao was born in Brazil but has an Italian passport and has now done the paperwork to get Spanish nationality, and this in turn will allow him to play for the national side.
The management of the Spanish team has already marked his card. Leo, born in 1992 in Santos, landed up in Madrid at the age of 16, and found a comfortable home at Rayo, where this season he has really shown off his skills, and his confidence has not gone unnoticed by Spanish team manager Vicente del Bosque.
About the possibility of playing for Spain, Baptistao is unequivocal. "If Del Bosque calls me up, I'd be thrilled to go", he said on MARCA.com. "I'd have no problems about playing for the team", went on the young Vallecas player, who has already scored six goals this season in the league.
Leo, who could equally well play for Brazil as for Italy or Spain, has shown through his comments that he has it in mind to play for Spain. Baptistao, who has had several possible suitors as of late, both in Spain and elsewhere, could even find himself playing in the next friendly match for the under-21s. So will there soon be another Brazilian playing for Spain? Leo would be the sixth to do so, following in the footsteps of Becerra, Donato, Catanha, Senna and Thiago.
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Source: MARCA
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