{"id":40943,"date":"2026-04-09T03:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nottingham-forest-igor-jesus-reveals-brazil-world-cup-dream\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T03:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:30:25","slug":"nottingham-forest-igor-jesus-reveals-brazil-world-cup-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nottingham-forest-igor-jesus-reveals-brazil-world-cup-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest: Igor Jesus reveals Brazil World Cup dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Striker Igor Jesus has revealed his World Cup dream as he plots European glory with <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/nottingham-forest\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Nottingham Forest<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old has scored once in five games for the five-time winners and wants to seal his spot with Brazil for the summer&#8217;s tournament in the USA, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jesus is the Europa League&#8217;s seven-goal top scorer and is in Porto with Forest ahead of Thursday&#8217;s quarter-final first leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has netted 13 times this season &#8211; although just three in the Premier League &#8211; since a \u00a310m move from Botafogo last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To be among the players (going) to the World Cup it would be a dream and I think I have the skills for it but it will result from what I do here too,&#8221; he said at the Estadio do Dragao. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have been preparing very well, I always try to help my colleagues the best way possible and I hope I can keep doing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The forward scored in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c5yj7rgj7ent\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">3-0 first-leg knock out win in Fenerbahce<\/a>, Vitor Pereira&#8217;s first game in charge, and is eager for more against the Portuguese league leaders, where he will face former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a> defender and fellow Brazil international Thiago Silva. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m really, really happy to be top scorer, we know it&#8217;s not easy to be there. I always work and give my best to help the team. Tomorrow we have an important game and we can do it,&#8221; said Jesus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He (Silva) is a top centre back, I don&#8217;t care about that. I want to do my best and help the team. He is a good player and we have so many good players and we can do our best tomorrow and win the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know our quality and we know what we can do and we know we can do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c75k1p1qwqvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striker Igor Jesus has revealed his World Cup dream as he plots European glory with Nottingham Forest. The 25-year-old has scored once in five games for the five-time winners and wants to seal his spot with Brazil for the summer&#8217;s tournament in the USA, Canada and Mexico. 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