
After a notable first selection with the French team, the midfielder confirms his meteoric progress under the colors of Como.
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Lucas Da Cunha joined the Como club while playing in the Italian 2nd division. He is now captain of the team which plays in Serie A.
A few words whispered to him during a stoppage in play by Zinédine Zidane, at the King Baudoin stadium in Brussels. Lucas Da Cunha, 25, finished delivering 90 successful minutes for his first selection for the French team, against Belgium on Monday (0-1). The midfielder seemed light years away from such a scene three years ago, when he was fighting for a starting place in an Italian 2nd division club. This club, that of Como, is still there. He is now its captain, took it to 4th place in Serie A and even discovered the Champions League at the end of the summer.
“I arrived when the club was 17th in Serie B. I came precisely for this kind of challenge,” he confided to Le Figaro a year ago, in one of his rare interviews. The young boy is not the most talkative, far from the cliché of the star footballer. “He’s someone who is more in his bubble, in his world,” describes a coach who worked with him in France. A tranquility…

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