26 August 2026 …
Joao Pedro: Is Brazilian ready to break Chelsea’s so-called number nine curse?
“If I gave him one thing, it is to fight for what you want all the time,” his mother Flavia Junqueira explained to BBC Sport.
Looking at Joao Pedro’s story, that is exactly what he has had to do.
His mother, along with his grandmother, have largely brought him up.
Reports from Joao Pedro’s early childhood show his father, former Botafogo footballer Jose Joao de Jesus – more commonly known