Gabriel Jesus's Life and Career Journey in Football "The Mother is Gabriel's Greatest Motivation"

Gabriel Fernando De Jesus was born on April 3, 1997 in Sao Paolo, Brazil, to the couple Diniz De Jesus and Vera Lucia Jesus. He was born as the last child of four siblings. Since childhood Gabriel has been abandoned by his father, according to reports his father fled with his affair.

Gabriel grew up in the Jardim Peri neighborhood located north of Sao Paolo. Little Gabriel really likes soccer. At the age of five he often played soccer with his friends on the streets, at that time he often played as a midfielder. After the 2002 World Cup he turned into an attacker after seeing his idol, Ronaldo Luis Nazario Da Lima appear neat at the event.

That also makes it more serious to wrestle the world of the round leather. He began to join an amateur club in the area of his residence. At the age of 13 Gabriel joined Anhanguera Associato de Paulesta. He scored 29 goals in a tournament under the age of 15.

For his brilliant performance with the team, Gabriel was quoted by Palmeiras. Even when he was 15 years old Gabriel already had an agent who would take him to Palmeiras. At that moment Gabriel began to join Palmeiras.

Palmeiras fans asked management to put Gabriel, who was then 16 years old, into the main squad after playing neatly in the junior team. Together with Palmeiras junior squad he was able to score 54 goals in 48 matches.

In early 2015 Gabriel finally joined the Palmeiras main squad. He made his first match on 7 March 2015 at the Campeonato Paulista against CA Bragantino at Allianz Parque. In that year he played 37 times and was able to score 7 goals in all competitions.

In 2016, Gabriel helped Palmeiras win the Brazilian league for the first time in 22 years. The 175 cm tall striker, was named the best player of the season.

His neat appearance with Palmeiras made him in the lyrics of talent scouts from Europe. Until January 2017 he officially signed a contract with Manchester City, Gabriel signed a contract until 2021. He was recruited at a cost of £ 27 million or Rp. 445 billion.

Gabriel made his first appearance in the Premier League on January 21 while replacing Raheem Sterling in a match that ended in a 2-2 draw with Tottenham Hotspur at the Ettihad Stadium. A week later, Gabriel made his first appearance at Manchester City's starting XI against Crystal Palace in the FA Cup.

Gabriel Jesus ended the 2016/17 season with a score of 7 goals and 4 assists in 11 matches.

In his second season with The Citizen, Gabriel was transformed into a public idol for Ettihad. In that season Gabriel scored the Premier League's first goal on August 26 while equalizing in a 2-1 away win over AFC Bournemouth. In that season he helped City win two titles, namely the Premier League and League Cup. He recorded 42 appearances and scored 17 goals.

His sharpness in breaking into the opponent's goal became even more sadistic in the 2018/19 season, where he was able to score 21 goals in 46 matches. Even on 9 January 2019, Gabriel scored 4 goals for the first time in his career when he won 9-0 against Burton Albion.

While at the international level, Gabriel has been defending Brazil since the age of 18 years, when he was part of the team that competed in the 2015 U-20 World Cup in New Zealand. Then he entered the U-23 team, and gradually his performance attracted the interest of the senior team coach.

Gabriel made his senior team debut on September 1, 2016 in a match against Ecuador in Quito in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. In that match he scored two goals, when Brazil won 3-0. Gabriel is Brazil's top scorer in the CONMEBOL World Cup qualifiers, with 7 goals in 10 matches.

At the 2018 world cup, Gabriel played five times without scoring a single goal. One year later he became one of the Brazilian stars in the Copa America, when the samba team won. Gabriel scored 2 goals and 2 assists in the tournament.

For Gabriel, the mother, is the most important person in her life and she always calls Gabriel whenever her son will compete. The mother's face was also painted on Gabriel's body. Even Gabriel also often asks his mother to control the money he has. According to him the mother is Gabriel's biggest motivation.

In addition, Gabriel is indeed from a religious family. He chose to wear the number 33 in Man City as a tribute to Jesus Christ who was believed to be crucified at that age.

Outside of Football, Gabriel Jesus is also very fond of playing music. Even he has the skills in playing drums. Gabriel is also a Basketball fan, he idolized the American basketball club, Golden State Warriors and his player Sthepen Curry.

Gabriel was great, but beyond that he was not free from controversy, while still strengthening Palmeiras he got the first red card in his career when he hit one of the officers in the stadium.

Now at a young age he is added by some of the advantages he has such as speed, technical skills, dribbling, creativity, finishing, movement without the ball, and the fighting spirit will make him someday become a football star like the idol, Ronaldo Luis Nazario Da Lima.