A grand total of 89 minutes. Or the fact that he will be playing for Italy against Spain at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday only because of a serious injury to left back Leonardo Spinazzola, one of the best players at Euro , near the end of the win over Belgium in the quarterfinals. No, Emerson's unlikely journey to the biggest match of his life can be charted back to the start of the century, when he was a kid playing soccer on the beach with his brother in the Brazilian port city of Santos.
The life-changing move to Italy — and the subsequent switch of nationality — was still years away. At that time, Emerson was just having a fun time, living near the beach and going surfing and skateboarding when not blossoming as a soccer player.
After playing 5-a-side with two small teams in the area, he moved to Santos — famous for being the club of Brazil great Pele — to play a-side first as a striker, then a central midfielder then, randomly, as a left back.
A fulltime contract followed and, before long, a move to Europe to play on loan for Palermo, a club on the Italian island of Sicily. That enabled Emerson, who had just turned 20, to live the kind of life he had in Brazil, with the sea, the sun and the climate.
An anterior cruciate ligament injury in at his second Italian club, Roma, was another obstacle for Emerson, keeping him out for seven months. This season, his only minutes in the league came as a substitute for Ben Chilwell against Newcastle and West Ham, and he has made only seven starts in all competitions.
Being an unused substitute in the Champions League final — Chelsea beat Manchester City in Porto in May — was hardly surprising, even if it didn't stop him from collecting a winner's medal. Indeed, Italy coach Roberto Mancini hasn't been put off by Emerson's lack of game time for Chelsea, regularly starting him at left back over the last two years.
But one call changed everything. Paris needed Neymar to take their project to a new level, to reach the stars. So the secret talks started. If the Parisians wanted their man, they would have to cough up the whole amount of the release clause, paying the biggest transfer fee ever.
After a few internal meetings, the PSG hierarchy decided that the club could afford to recruit the superstar. The French club did not want to be at fault with the regulations of financial fair play.
Pini Zahavi, the Israeli agent, who brokered the deal for Neymar to join Barcelona from Santos in the summer , was at the heart of all the negotiations.
On 14 July, Neymar returned to training with Barcelona after his holidays. On 18 July, rumours of the potential biggest transfer in history appeared for the first time on social media. Three days later, French and Catalan media stated that the deal was pretty much done.
Yet it took another two weeks before it became official. Barcelona were determined to do everything they could to keep Neymar at the Camp Nou. Despite the agreement being in place, the player was still not sure what to do. His father, Neymar Sr, who is the biggest influence on him, wanted him to stay in Catalonia. Many cities in Brazil do not comply with the air quality guidelines recommended by the World Health Organization , so further action is necessary to improve air quality and protect public health.
HDVs—trucks and buses—represent an effective target for early emission control. They include lower emission limits than previous standards and a new limit for particle number. Euro VI standards also guarantee in-use compliance beyond the laboratory tests through more representative test cycles, cold-start requirements, more robust on-board diagnostics OBD , better durability requirements, and in-use testing.
These details matter. Brazil should adopt Euro VI in its entirety, because deviations could have unintended consequences. Euro V vehicles have struggled to meet emission limits in the real world in many markets because test cycles do not adequately represent normal driving conditions, especially in urban areas. This means that automakers designed trucks and buses to pass certification tests, but not necessarily to comply with emission limits in the real world. In Brazil, the problem with P-7 vehicles was worse.
Adopting Euro VI standards with as little deviation as possible would minimize the risk of such compliance issues.
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