Oct 172013
 
Mosquito Nets Hat-trick as Brazil U17s Win World Cup Opener

Brazil began their 2013 U-17s World Cup campaign with a convincing 6-1 win over Slovakia in group A, as Atlético Paranaense wonderkid Mosquito scored an impressive hat-trick. He was joined on the score-sheet by the imaginatively named Nathan, who scored two goals and also plays for Atlético PR, and Flamengo forward Caio Rangel. Mosquito, whose full name is Thiago Rodrigues da Silva, has been a mainstay of Brazil’s youth sides from a young age, and possesses a […]