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MADRID — With two diamond studs sparkling in his ears, Vinícius José Paixão de Oliveira Júnior strolled through the front door of the gated villa he calls home after a day of training at Real Madrid.

Within minutes, he and his two closest friends from Brazil had fired up the FIFA video game in the living room to begin a daily ritual: the usual marathon session that seems to only pause for meal times.

“What a header,” one of the friends yelled as the digitized version of Vinícius leapt into the air and buried a shot past the goalkeeper. Vinícius, 19, raised his head from the massage table to see the action unfold on a 65-inch television, and then let his attention drift back to his phone as his personal physiotherapist continued to work on his legs.

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This villa, in one of Madrid’s most exclusive neighborhoods, has the air of a teenage boy’s paradise. In addition to its enormous television, there are electric scooters, a driving seat for a motor racing game and table tennis and pool tables. The items are there to distract as much as entertain: Vinícius’s status as the next great star of Real Madrid means he rarely ventures out in public anymore. There are strict rules for his friends, too. No nights out when Vinícius is at home.

“It’s not fair if we go out and he has to stay in,” said one of them, Luiz Felipe Menegate. “We know we’re here for him to succeed.”

“Just like always,” Vinícius said with a grin.

In some ways, he is correct. Even if he were not one of the sport’s brightest young prospects, Vinícius probably would be spending his days talking soccer in the company of Menegate and another boyhood friend, Wesley Menezes, or digging into plates of black beans, rice and sirloin prepared by a favorite aunt. But in so many other ways — not just the toy-filled villa, but the multimillion-dollar salary and the attention and expectation that come with being one of the most valuable teenagers on earth — Vinícius Júnior now inhabits an entirely new world.

In April, he and his team invited The New York Times into that world, offering a rare glimpse into the care and the planning and, yes, the comforts that can help a talented young player navigate the warp-speed transformation from prospect to pro.

In Vinícius’s case, the change of venue alone has been remarkable.

Only a few years ago, Vinícius, a skillful and speedy wing, was living in a cramped room with more than a half-dozen family members in a Rio de Janeiro municipality notorious for violent crime and crippling poverty. Then, in May 2017, Real Madrid agreed to pay the Rio de Janeiro club Flamengo 45 million euros (just over $50 million) for the rights to the teenage forward. In an instant, before he had kicked a ball as a professional, Vinícius became the most expensive teenage export in Brazilian soccer history.

The record-breaking fee made Vinícius, then only 16, an instant millionaire. But it also kick-started the effort to make his journey from Rio to Europe as seamless as possible. That is why Menegate and Menezes are here, along with his aunt and nearly a dozen other family members, all of them living inside the two-story villa behind the tall gates, the ferns and the evergreens of La Moraleja, an enclave for Madrid’s rich and powerful.

It is the dream of every young Brazilian boy who plays soccer to land with a club like Real Madrid, a team of superstars that has won more international titles than any other club. Vinícius’s journey, though, represents something far different than the usual favela-to-riches story: It also captures the fevered, high-risk game Real Madrid plays to try to maintain its excellence, the ease with which top clubs can bid up the value (and the expectations) for an unproven player, and one family’s efforts to try to maintain just the slightest bit of normalcy amid that storm.

“I don’t really feel pressure,” Vinícius said in April. “I just focus on enjoying myself on the pitch.”

Much of that, he said, is because of what is in place inside the villa in La Moraleja, away from the prying eyes of fans and reporters, and a universe removed from his childhood.

Even by the standards of São Gonçalo, the bayside city of about 330,000 near Rio that is blighted by poverty and crime, the Paixão de Oliveira family had it hard. Vinícius’s father had to take work in a neighboring state to support his family, installing wiring for cable and internet firms. Often that was not enough.

When he was 6, Vinícius, who according to family members showed glimpses of talent soon after learning to walk, signed up for soccer training with a local school run by Carlos Eduardo Abrantes, known to everyone as Cacau. The school is one of scores affiliated with Flamengo, and that meant Cacau also shared in the riches of Vinícius’s transfer to Madrid. “It was a good amount,” he said, without revealing an exact figure.

Cacau said Vinícius’s family often could not afford to pay the monthly fees to keep him in training, and often did not have enough to eat. He said he and his wife, Valeria, would sometimes help by allowing him to skip a payment, or by giving Vinícius something to eat. “He was very needy,” Cacau recalled on a blisteringly hot February afternoon. Nearby, a group of boys trained on his facility’s single artificial turf field. Vinícius, in the form of two billboards, watched over them.

By the time Vinícius was 10, Flamengo had signed him to its school, located on the other side of the city. At 12, Vinícius moved in with his uncle Ulysses, whose home was closer to Flamengo’s training complex, avoiding a commute to training that sometimes stretched to three hours.

By the time he was 14, Vinícius’s rare talent was clear. He was one of the best players in Rio, and soon a star on national teams for his age group. It was then that TFM, one of Brazil’s soccer agencies, started to manage his career, taking the place of a previous agent and providing support that allowed his father to return home to his family and focus on Vinícius’ ascent.

TFM bet on his promise and started investing in Vinícius, persuading the family to let it represent the talented youngster. The informal arrangement carried risks for the firm because in Brazil players cannot sign with agents until they are 18.

“It is a gentleman’s agreement, and many times that agreement isn’t respected by the parents, and he’s free to change his mind,” said Frederico Pena, the agent who runs TFM.

TFM helped Vinícius’ family rent an apartment closer to Flamengo’s training center and paid for him to attend two high-performance facilities in the United States that are used by professional sports franchises. Such was the speed of Vinícius’ rise that a planned third visit had to be scrapped: He had been promoted to Flamengo’s first team.

When Vinícius was honored as the best player and top scorer for Brazil’s championship team at a South American under-17 championship in early 2017, the performance led to one of the most remarkable transfer battles in recent soccer history. Real Madrid and Barcelona, bitter rivals on and off the field in Spain, each decided it wanted Vinícius — a teenager who still had not made his professional debut for Flamengo — at almost any price.

Barcelona opened the bidding at 10 million euros and an option to match any offer from a rival club. Real Madrid topped the bid. Back and forth it went until the price hit 45 million euros.

At that point, Pena said, Real Madrid’s chief executive, José Ángel Sánchez, told Vinícius’ representatives that the club would pull out of the race to sign Kylian Mbappé, the French teenage sensation then starring for Monaco, if Vinícius would commit.

“We realized they really wanted him because they’re comparing him, without playing a professional game, with a player killing it at a top European level,” Pena said, remembering how he laughed at the time, unsure whether Sánchez meant what he was saying.

The deal was quietly completed in early 2017. Vinícius, still only 16, would be richer than he had ever dreamed. Months later, he would make his professional debut for Flamengo at Rio’s famed Maracanã stadium, and then announce his pending move to Spain. Just over a year later, in July 2018, the now-18-year-old Vinícius and his entourage landed in Madrid for the first time.

As they waited to enter the auditorium where the Spanish news media had gathered to get a first look at Real Madrid’s latest big-money signing, Menegate teased Vinícius about the formal clothes they had been ordered to wear. Vinícius, dressed in a dark tailored suit, laughed that his friend was only angry because he did not look as sharp. The jokes flowed until Menegate suddenly shot his buddy a look.

“Can you believe all this?” he asked.

“No,” Vinícius replied. “I’ll only believe it when I get on the field.”

Vinícius returned to Brazil to close out the season with Flamengo, and he and his family members, for whom the days of hardship were now over, tried to play down their new status. They moved into a better house and bought a new car — one Vinícius’ managers insisted had to be bulletproof — but otherwise kept a low profile.

“A lot of times they said, ‘Let’s pretend we don’t have this money so we don’t do something stupid,’” Pena said.

The transition to Europe has not always been easy. The battle for a regular place in the Real Madrid lineup is not for the meek, and even the biggest signings, and the brightest prospects, quickly fall out of favor with fans and the news media. But at least that quest, which continues Friday when Real Madrid plays Atlético Madrid at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, is within Vinícius Júnior’s control; the friends and family members who have uprooted their lives to support him already have surrendered part of their own identities to help him flourish. Menegate acknowledged as much one afternoon as he waited for his friend to return from training.

“I know that we are not just Menegate and Wesley anymore because people now just see us as the two guys who live with Vinícius,” he said.

Still, the attempts at normalcy continue. His aunt Vanessa, who is part of the entourage, cooks every meal for the household, and the menu rarely changes: rice, beans and protein, staples of family meals throughout Brazil. Most days, the family gathers at the table a couple of hours before dinner; they wash down slices of a cornmeal cake, known as bolo de fubá, with sweet Brazilian coffee as pagode music blares from a living room speaker. Except for the fact the group is sitting in a home whose previous occupant was the chief executive of one of Spain’s largest retailers, the scene could be one set back in the cramped apartment in São Gonçalo, family and friends enjoying one another’s company, discussing soccer and the quality of aunt Vanessa’s cooking.

The next day, Vinícius will return to training. The club will focus on his development. The agents will focus on his millions. The family members and the old friends will offer their company. The auntie will prepare more beans and rice.

“My dad says, ‘Just focus on the pitch,’” Vinícius Júnior said. “‘You don’t have any problem off the pitch.’”

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MADRID — With two diamond studs sparkling in his ears, Vinícius José Paixão de Oliveira Júnior strolled through the front door of the gated villa he calls home after a day of training at Real Madrid.

Within minutes, he and his two closest friends from Brazil had fired up the FIFA video game in the living room to begin a daily ritual: the usual marathon session that seems to only pause for meal times.

“What a header,” one of the friends yelled as the digitized version of Vinícius leapt into the air and buried a shot past the goalkeeper. Vinícius, 19, raised his head from the massage table to see the action unfold on a 65-inch television, and then let his attention drift back to his phone as his personal physiotherapist continued to work on his legs.

Subscribe to Rory Smith’s weekly newsletter on world soccer, delivered every Friday.

This villa, in one of Madrid’s most exclusive neighborhoods, has the air of a teenage boy’s paradise. In addition to its enormous television, there are electric scooters, a driving seat for a motor racing game and table tennis and pool tables. The items are there to distract as much as entertain: Vinícius’s status as the next great star of Real Madrid means he rarely ventures out in public anymore. There are strict rules for his friends, too. No nights out when Vinícius is at home.

“It’s not fair if we go out and he has to stay in,” said one of them, Luiz Felipe Menegate. “We know we’re here for him to succeed.”

“Just like always,” Vinícius said with a grin.

In some ways, he is correct. Even if he were not one of the sport’s brightest young prospects, Vinícius probably would be spending his days talking soccer in the company of Menegate and another boyhood friend, Wesley Menezes, or digging into plates of black beans, rice and sirloin prepared by a favorite aunt. But in so many other ways — not just the toy-filled villa, but the multimillion-dollar salary and the attention and expectation that come with being one of the most valuable teenagers on earth — Vinícius Júnior now inhabits an entirely new world.

In April, he and his team invited The New York Times into that world, offering a rare glimpse into the care and the planning and, yes, the comforts that can help a talented young player navigate the warp-speed transformation from prospect to pro.

In Vinícius’s case, the change of venue alone has been remarkable.

Only a few years ago, Vinícius, a skillful and speedy wing, was living in a cramped room with more than a half-dozen family members in a Rio de Janeiro municipality notorious for violent crime and crippling poverty. Then, in May 2017, Real Madrid agreed to pay the Rio de Janeiro club Flamengo 45 million euros (just over $50 million) for the rights to the teenage forward. In an instant, before he had kicked a ball as a professional, Vinícius became the most expensive teenage export in Brazilian soccer history.

The record-breaking fee made Vinícius, then only 16, an instant millionaire. But it also kick-started the effort to make his journey from Rio to Europe as seamless as possible. That is why Menegate and Menazes are here, along with his aunt and nearly a dozen other family members, all of them living inside the two-story villa behind the tall gates, the ferns and the evergreens of La Moraleja, an enclave for Madrid’s rich and powerful.

It is the dream of every young Brazilian boy who plays soccer to land with a club like Real Madrid, a team of superstars that has won more international titles than any other club. Vinícius’s journey, though, represents something far different than the usual favela-to-riches story: It also captures the fevered, high-risk game Real Madrid plays to try to maintain its excellence, the ease with which top clubs can bid up the value (and the expectations) for an unproven player, and one family’s efforts to try to maintain just the slightest bit of normalcy amid that storm.

“I don’t really feel pressure,” Vinícius said in April. “I just focus on enjoying myself on the pitch.”

Much of that, he said, is because of what is in place inside the villa in La Moraleja, away from the prying eyes of fans and reporters, and a universe removed from his childhood.

Even by the standards of São Gonçalo, the bayside city of about 330,000 near Rio that is blighted by poverty and crime, the Paixão de Oliveira family had it hard. Vinícius’s father had to take work in a neighboring state to support his family, installing wiring for cable and internet firms. Often that was not enough.

When he was 6, Vinícius, who according to family members showed glimpses of talent soon after learning to walk, signed up for soccer training with a local school run by Carlos Eduardo Abrantes, known to everyone as Cacau. The school is one of scores affiliated with Flamengo, and that meant Cacau also shared in the riches of Vinícius’s transfer to Madrid. “It was a good amount,” he said, without revealing an exact figure.

Cacau said Vinícius’s family often could not afford to pay the monthly fees to keep him in training, and often did not have enough to eat. He said he and his wife, Valeria, would sometimes help by allowing him to skip a payment, or by giving Vinícius something to eat. “He was very needy,” Cacau recalled on a blisteringly hot February afternoon. Nearby, a group of boys trained on his facility’s single artificial turf field. Vinícius, in the form of two billboards, watched over them.

By the time Vinícius was 10, Flamengo had signed him to its school, located on the other side of the city. At 12, Vinícius moved in with his uncle Ulysses, whose home was closer to Flamengo’s training complex, avoiding a commute to training that sometimes stretched to three hours.

By the time he was 14, Vinícius’s rare talent was clear. He was one of the best players in Rio, and soon a star on national teams for his age group. It was then that TFM, one of Brazil’s soccer agencies, started to manage his career, taking the place of a previous agent and providing support that allowed his father to return home to his family and focus on Vinícius’ ascent.

TFM bet on his promise and started investing in Vinícius, persuading the family to let it represent the talented youngster. The informal arrangement carried risks for the firm because in Brazil players cannot sign with agents until they are 18.

“It is a gentleman’s agreement, and many times that agreement isn’t respected by the parents, and he’s free to change his mind,” said Frederico Pena, the agent who runs TFM.

TFM helped Vinícius’ family rent an apartment closer to Flamengo’s training center and paid for him to attend two high-performance facilities in the United States that are used by professional sports franchises. Such was the speed of Vinícius’ rise that a planned third visit had to be scrapped: He had been promoted to Flamengo’s first team.

When Vinícius was honored as the best player and top scorer for Brazil’s championship team at a South American under-17 championship in early 2017, the performance led to one of the most remarkable transfer battles in recent soccer history. Real Madrid and Barcelona, bitter rivals on and off the field in Spain, each decided it wanted Vinícius — a teenager who still had not made his professional debut for Flamengo — at almost any price.

Barcelona opened the bidding at 10 million euros and an option to match any offer from a rival club. Real Madrid topped the bid. Back and forth it went until the price hit 45 million euros.

At that point, Pena said, Real Madrid’s chief executive, José Ángel Sánchez, told Vinícius’ representatives that the club would pull out of the race to sign Kylian Mbappé, the French teenage sensation then starring for Monaco, if Vinícius would commit.

“We realized they really wanted him because they’re comparing him, without playing a professional game, with a player killing it at a top European level,” Pena said, remembering how he laughed at the time, unsure whether Sánchez meant what he was saying.

The deal was quietly completed in early 2017. Vinícius, still only 16, would be richer than he had ever dreamed. Months later, he would make his professional debut for Flamengo at Rio’s famed Maracaã stadium, and then announce his pending move to Spain. Just over a year later, in July 2018, the now-18-year-old Vinícius and his entourage landed in Madrid for the first time.

As they waited to enter the auditorium where the Spanish news media had gathered to get a first look at Real Madrid’s latest big-money signing, Menegate teased Vinícius about the formal clothes they had been ordered to wear. Vinícius, dressed in a dark tailored suit, laughed that his friend was only angry because he did not look as sharp. The jokes flowed until Menegate suddenly shot his buddy a look.

“Can you believe all this?” he asked.

“No,” Vinícius replied. “I’ll only believe it when I get on the field.”

Vinícius returned to Brazil to close out the season with Flamengo, and he and his family members, for whom the days of hardship were now over, tried to play down their new status. They moved into a better house and bought a new car — one Vinícius’ managers insisted had to be bulletproof — but otherwise kept a low profile.

“A lot of times they said, ‘Let’s pretend we don’t have this money so we don’t do something stupid,’” Pena said.

The transition to Europe has not always been easy. The battle for a regular place in the Real Madrid lineup is not for the meek, and even the biggest signings, and the brightest prospects, quickly fall out of favor with fans and the news media. But at least that quest, which continues Friday when Real Madrid plays Atlético Madrid at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, is within Vinícius Júnior’s control; the friends and family members who have uprooted their lives to support him already have surrendered part of their own identities to help him flourish. Menegate acknowledged as much one afternoon as he waited for his friend to return from training.

“I know that we are not just Menegate and Wesley anymore because people now just see us as the two guys who live with Vinícius,” he said.

Still, the attempts at normalcy continue. His aunt Vanessa, who is part of the entourage, cooks every meal for the household, and the menu rarely changes: rice, beans and protein, staples of family meals throughout Brazil. Most days, the family gathers at the table a couple of hours before dinner; they wash down slices of a cornmeal cake, known as bolo de fubá, with sweet Brazilian coffee as pagode music blares from a living room speaker. Except for the fact the group is sitting in a home whose previous occupant was the chief executive of one of Spain’s largest retailers, the scene could be one set back in the cramped apartment in São Gonçalo, family and friends enjoying one another’s company, discussing soccer and the quality of aunt Vanessa’s cooking.

The next day, Vinícius will return to training. The club will focus on his development. The agents will focus on his millions. The family members and the old friends will offer their company. The auntie will prepare more beans and rice.

“My dad says, ‘Just focus on the pitch,’” Vinícius Júnior said. “‘You don’t have any problem off the pitch.’”

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MADRID — With two diamond studs sparkling in his ears, Vinícius José Paixão de Oliveira Júnior strolled through the front door of the gated villa he calls home after a day of training at Real Madrid.

Within minutes, he and his two closest friends from Brazil had fired up the FIFA video game in the living room to begin a daily ritual: the usual marathon session that seems to only pause for meal times.

“What a header,” one of the friends yelled as the digitized version of Vinícius leapt into the air and buried a shot past the goalkeeper. Vinícius, 19, raised his head from the massage table to see the action unfold on a 65-inch television, and then let his attention drift back to his phone as his personal physiotherapist continued to work on his legs.

Subscribe to Rory Smith’s weekly newsletter on world soccer, delivered every Friday.

This villa, in one of Madrid’s most exclusive neighborhoods, has the air of a teenage boy’s paradise. In addition to its enormous television, there are electric scooters, a driving seat for a motor racing game and table tennis and pool tables. The items are there to distract as much as entertain: Vinícius’s status as the next great star of Real Madrid means he rarely ventures out in public anymore. There are strict rules for his friends, too. No nights out when Vinícius is at home.

“It’s not fair if we go out and he has to stay in,” said one of them, Luiz Felipe Menegate. “We know we’re here for him to succeed.”

“Just like always,” Vinícius said with a grin.

In some ways, he is correct. Even if he were not one of the sport’s brightest young prospects, Vinícius probably would be spending his days talking soccer in the company of Menegate and another boyhood friend, Wesley Menezes, or digging into plates of black beans, rice and sirloin prepared by a favorite aunt. But in so many other ways — not just the toy-filled villa, but the multimillion-dollar salary and the attention and expectation that come with being one of the most valuable teenagers on earth — Vinícius Júnior now inhabits an entirely new world.

In April, he and his team invited The New York Times into that world, offering a rare glimpse into the care and the planning and, yes, the comforts that can help a talented young player navigate the warp-speed transformation from prospect to pro.

In Vinícius’s case, the change of venue alone has been remarkable.

Only a few years ago, Vinícius, a skillful and speedy wing, was living in a cramped room with more than a half-dozen family members in a Rio de Janeiro municipality notorious for violent crime and crippling poverty. Then, in May 2017, Real Madrid agreed to pay the Rio de Janeiro club Flamengo 45 million euros (just over $50 million) for the rights to the teenage forward. In an instant, before he had kicked a ball as a professional, Vinícius became the most expensive teenage export in Brazilian soccer history.

The record-breaking fee made Vinícius, then only 16, an instant millionaire. But it also kick-started the effort to make his journey from Rio to Europe as seamless as possible. That is why Menegate and Menazes are here, along with his aunt and nearly a dozen other family members, all of them living inside the two-story villa behind the tall gates, the ferns and the evergreens of La Moraleja, an enclave for Madrid’s rich and powerful.

It is the dream of every young Brazilian boy who plays soccer to land with a club like Real Madrid, a team of superstars that has won more international titles than any other club. Vinícius’s journey, though, represents something far different than the usual favela-to-riches story: It also captures the fevered, high-risk game Real Madrid plays to try to maintain its excellence, the ease with which top clubs can bid up the value (and the expectations) for an unproven player, and one family’s efforts to try to maintain just the slightest bit of normalcy amid that storm.

“I don’t really feel pressure,” Vinícius said in April. “I just focus on enjoying myself on the pitch.”

Much of that, he said, is because of what is in place inside the villa in La Moraleja, away from the prying eyes of fans and reporters, and a universe removed from his childhood.

Even by the standards of São Gonçalo, the bayside city of about 330,000 near Rio that is blighted by poverty and crime, the Paixão de Oliveira family had it hard. Vinícius’s father had to take work in a neighboring state to support his family, installing wiring for cable and internet firms. Often that was not enough.

When he was 6, Vinícius, who according to family members showed glimpses of talent soon after learning to walk, signed up for soccer training with a local school run by Carlos Eduardo Abrantes, known to everyone as Cacau. The school is one of scores affiliated with Flamengo, and that meant Cacau also shared in the riches of Vinícius’s transfer to Madrid. “It was a good amount,” he said, without revealing an exact figure.

Cacau said Vinícius’s family often could not afford to pay the monthly fees to keep him in training, and often did not have enough to eat. He said he and his wife, Valeria, would sometimes help by allowing him to skip a payment, or by giving Vinícius something to eat. “He was very needy,” Cacau recalled on a blisteringly hot February afternoon. Nearby, a group of boys trained on his facility’s single artificial turf field. Vinícius, in the form of two billboards, watched over them.

By the time Vinícius was 10, Flamengo had signed him to its school, located on the other side of the city. At 12, Vinícius moved in with his uncle Ulysses, whose home was closer to Flamengo’s training complex, avoiding a commute to training that sometimes stretched to three hours.

By the time he was 14, Vinícius’s rare talent was clear. He was one of the best players in Rio, and soon a star on national teams for his age group. It was then that TFM, one of Brazil’s soccer agencies, started to manage his career, taking the place of a previous agent and providing support that allowed his father to return home to his family and focus on Vinícius’ ascent.

TFM bet on his promise and started investing in Vinícius, persuading the family to let it represent the talented youngster. The informal arrangement carried risks for the firm because in Brazil players cannot sign with agents until they are 18.

“It is a gentleman’s agreement, and many times that agreement isn’t respected by the parents, and he’s free to change his mind,” said Frederico Pena, the agent who runs TFM.

TFM helped Vinícius’ family rent an apartment closer to Flamengo’s training center and paid for him to attend two high-performance facilities in the United States that are used by professional sports franchises. Such was the speed of Vinícius’ rise that a planned third visit had to be scrapped: He had been promoted to Flamengo’s first team.

When Vinícius was honored as the best player and top scorer for Brazil’s championship team at a South American under-17 championship in early 2017, the performance led to one of the most remarkable transfer battles in recent soccer history. Real Madrid and Barcelona, bitter rivals on and off the field in Spain, each decided it wanted Vinícius — a teenager who still had not made his professional debut for Flamengo — at almost any price.

Barcelona opened the bidding at 10 million euros and an option to match any offer from a rival club. Real Madrid topped the bid. Back and forth it went until the price hit 45 million euros.

At that point, Pena said, Real Madrid’s chief executive, José Ángel Sánchez, told Vinícius’ representatives that the club would pull out of the race to sign Kylian Mbappé, the French teenage sensation then starring for Monaco, if Vinícius would commit.

“We realized they really wanted him because they’re comparing him, without playing a professional game, with a player killing it at a top European level,” Pena said, remembering how he laughed at the time, unsure whether Sánchez meant what he was saying.

The deal was quietly completed in early 2017. Vinícius, still only 16, would be richer than he had ever dreamed. Months later, he would make his professional debut for Flamengo at Rio’s famed Maracaã stadium, and then announce his pending move to Spain. Just over a year later, in July 2018, the now-18-year-old Vinícius and his entourage landed in Madrid for the first time.

As they waited to enter the auditorium where the Spanish news media had gathered to get a first look at Real Madrid’s latest big-money signing, Menegate teased Vinícius about the formal clothes they had been ordered to wear. Vinícius, dressed in a dark tailored suit, laughed that his friend was only angry because he did not look as sharp. The jokes flowed until Menegate suddenly shot his buddy a look.

“Can you believe all this?” he asked.

“No,” Vinícius replied. “I’ll only believe it when I get on the field.”

Vinícius returned to Brazil to close out the season with Flamengo, and he and his family members, for whom the days of hardship were now over, tried to play down their new status. They moved into a better house and bought a new car — one Vinícius’ managers insisted had to be bulletproof — but otherwise kept a low profile.

“A lot of times they said, ‘Let’s pretend we don’t have this money so we don’t do something stupid,’” Pena said.

The transition to Europe has not always been easy. The battle for a regular place in the Real Madrid lineup is not for the meek, and even the biggest signings, and the brightest prospects, quickly fall out of favor with fans and the news media. But at least that quest, which continues Friday when Real Madrid plays Atlético Madrid at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, is within Vinícius Júnior’s control; the friends and family members who have uprooted their lives to support him already have surrendered part of their own identities to help him flourish. Menegate acknowledged as much one afternoon as he waited for his friend to return from training.

“I know that we are not just Menegate and Wesley anymore because people now just see us as the two guys who live with Vinícius,” he said.

Still, the attempts at normalcy continue. His aunt Vanessa, who is part of the entourage, cooks every meal for the household, and the menu rarely changes: rice, beans and protein, staples of family meals throughout Brazil. Most days, the family gathers at the table a couple of hours before dinner; they wash down slices of a cornmeal cake, known as bolo de fubá, with sweet Brazilian coffee as pagode music blares from a living room speaker. Except for the fact the group is sitting in a home whose previous occupant was the chief executive of one of Spain’s largest retailers, the scene could be one set back in the cramped apartment in São Gonçalo, family and friends enjoying one another’s company, discussing soccer and the quality of aunt Vanessa’s cooking.

The next day, Vinícius will return to training. The club will focus on his development. The agents will focus on his millions. The family members and the old friends will offer their company. The auntie will prepare more beans and rice.

“My dad says, ‘Just focus on the pitch,’” Vinícius Júnior said. “‘You don’t have any problem off the pitch.’”

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Old Friends and Family Recipes Fuel a Real Madrid Prodigy

MADRID — With two diamond studs sparkling in his ears, Vinícius José Paixão de Oliveira Júnior strolled through the front door of the gated villa he calls home after a day of training at Real Madrid.

Within minutes, he and his two closest friends from Brazil had fired up the FIFA video game in the living room to begin a daily ritual: the usual marathon session that seems to only pause for meal times.

“What a header,” one of the friends yelled as the digitized version of Vinícius leapt into the air and buried a shot past the goalkeeper. Vinícius, 19, raised his head from the massage table to see the action unfold on a 65-inch television, and then let his attention drift back to his phone as his personal physiotherapist continued to work on his legs.

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This villa, in one of Madrid’s most exclusive neighborhoods, has the air of a teenage boy’s paradise. In addition to its enormous television, there are electric scooters, a driving seat for a motor racing game and table tennis and pool tables. The items are there to distract as much as entertain: Vinícius’s status as the next great star of Real Madrid means he rarely ventures out in public anymore. There are strict rules for his friends, too. No nights out when Vinícius is at home.

“It’s not fair if we go out and he has to stay in,” said one of them, Luiz Felipe Menegate. “We know we’re here for him to succeed.”

“Just like always,” Vinícius said with a grin.

In some ways, he is correct. Even if he were not one of the sport’s brightest young prospects, Vinícius probably would be spending his days talking soccer in the company of Menegate and another boyhood friend, Wesley Menezes, or digging into plates of black beans, rice and sirloin prepared by a favorite aunt. But in so many other ways — not just the toy-filled villa, but the multimillion-dollar salary and the attention and expectation that come with being one of the most valuable teenagers on earth — Vinícius Júnior now inhabits an entirely new world.

In April, he and his team invited The New York Times into that world, offering a rare glimpse into the care and the planning and, yes, the comforts that can help a talented young player navigate the warp-speed transformation from prospect to pro.

In Vinícius’s case, the change of venue alone has been remarkable.

Only a few years ago, Vinícius, a skillful and speedy wing, was living in a cramped room with more than a half-dozen family members in a Rio de Janeiro municipality notorious for violent crime and crippling poverty. Then, in May 2017, Real Madrid agreed to pay the Rio de Janeiro club Flamengo 45 million euros (just over $50 million) for the rights to the teenage forward. In an instant, before he had kicked a ball as a professional, Vinícius became the most expensive teenage export in Brazilian soccer history.

The record-breaking fee made Vinícius, then only 16, an instant millionaire. But it also kick-started the effort to make his journey from Rio to Europe as seamless as possible. That is why Menegate and Menazes are here, along with his aunt and nearly a dozen other family members, all of them living inside the two-story villa behind the tall gates, the ferns and the evergreens of La Moraleja, an enclave for Madrid’s rich and powerful.

It is the dream of every young Brazilian boy who plays soccer to land with a club like Real Madrid, a team of superstars that has won more international titles than any other club. Vinícius’s journey, though, represents something far different than the usual favela-to-riches story: It also captures the fevered, high-risk game Real Madrid plays to try to maintain its excellence, the ease with which top clubs can bid up the value (and the expectations) for an unproven player, and one family’s efforts to try to maintain just the slightest bit of normalcy amid that storm.

“I don’t really feel pressure,” Vinícius said in April. “I just focus on enjoying myself on the pitch.”

Much of that, he said, is because of what is in place inside the villa in La Moraleja, away from the prying eyes of fans and reporters, and a universe removed from his childhood.

Even by the standards of São Gonçalo, the bayside city of about 330,000 near Rio that is blighted by poverty and crime, the Paixão de Oliveira family had it hard. Vinícius’s father had to take work in a neighboring state to support his family, installing wiring for cable and internet firms. Often that was not enough.

When he was 6, Vinícius, who according to family members showed glimpses of talent soon after learning to walk, signed up for soccer training with a local school run by Carlos Eduardo Abrantes, known to everyone as Cacau. The school is one of scores affiliated with Flamengo, and that meant Cacau also shared in the riches of Vinícius’s transfer to Madrid. “It was a good amount,” he said, without revealing an exact figure.

Cacau said Vinícius’s family often could not afford to pay the monthly fees to keep him in training, and often did not have enough to eat. He said he and his wife, Valeria, would sometimes help by allowing him to skip a payment, or by giving Vinícius something to eat. “He was very needy,” Cacau recalled on a blisteringly hot February afternoon. Nearby, a group of boys trained on his facility’s single artificial turf field. Vinícius, in the form of two billboards, watched over them.

By the time Vinícius was 10, Flamengo had signed him to its school, located on the other side of the city. At 12, Vinícius moved in with his uncle Ulysses, whose home was closer to Flamengo’s training complex, avoiding a commute to training that sometimes stretched to three hours.

By the time he was 14, Vinícius’s rare talent was clear. He was one of the best players in Rio, and soon a star on national teams for his age group. It was then that TFM, one of Brazil’s soccer agencies, started to manage his career, taking the place of a previous agent and providing support that allowed his father to return home to his family and focus on Vinícius’ ascent.

TFM bet on his promise and started investing in Vinícius, persuading the family to let it represent the talented youngster. The informal arrangement carried risks for the firm because in Brazil players cannot sign with agents until they are 18.

“It is a gentleman’s agreement, and many times that agreement isn’t respected by the parents, and he’s free to change his mind,” said Frederico Pena, the agent who runs TFM.

TFM helped Vinícius’ family rent an apartment closer to Flamengo’s training center and paid for him to attend two high-performance facilities in the United States that are used by professional sports franchises. Such was the speed of Vinícius’ rise that a planned third visit had to be scrapped: He had been promoted to Flamengo’s first team.

When Vinícius was honored as the best player and top scorer for Brazil’s championship team at a South American under-17 championship in early 2017, the performance led to one of the most remarkable transfer battles in recent soccer history. Real Madrid and Barcelona, bitter rivals on and off the field in Spain, each decided it wanted Vinícius — a teenager who still had not made his professional debut for Flamengo — at almost any price.

Barcelona opened the bidding at 10 million euros and an option to match any offer from a rival club. Real Madrid topped the bid. Back and forth it went until the price hit 45 million euros.

At that point, Pena said, Real Madrid’s chief executive, José Ángel Sánchez, told Vinícius’ representatives that the club would pull out of the race to sign Kylian Mbappé, the French teenage sensation then starring for Monaco, if Vinícius would commit.

“We realized they really wanted him because they’re comparing him, without playing a professional game, with a player killing it at a top European level,” Pena said, remembering how he laughed at the time, unsure whether Sánchez meant what he was saying.

The deal was quietly completed in early 2017. Vinícius, still only 16, would be richer than he had ever dreamed. Months later, he would make his professional debut for Flamengo at Rio’s famed Maracaã stadium, and then announce his pending move to Spain. Just over a year later, in July 2018, the now-18-year-old Vinícius and his entourage landed in Madrid for the first time.

As they waited to enter the auditorium where the Spanish news media had gathered to get a first look at Real Madrid’s latest big-money signing, Menegate teased Vinícius about the formal clothes they had been ordered to wear. Vinícius, dressed in a dark tailored suit, laughed that his friend was only angry because he did not look as sharp. The jokes flowed until Menegate suddenly shot his buddy a look.

“Can you believe all this?” he asked.

“No,” Vinícius replied. “I’ll only believe it when I get on the field.”

Vinícius returned to Brazil to close out the season with Flamengo, and he and his family members, for whom the days of hardship were now over, tried to play down their new status. They moved into a better house and bought a new car — one Vinícius’ managers insisted had to be bulletproof — but otherwise kept a low profile.

“A lot of times they said, ‘Let’s pretend we don’t have this money so we don’t do something stupid,’” Pena said.

The transition to Europe has not always been easy. The battle for a regular place in the Real Madrid lineup is not for the meek, and even the biggest signings, and the brightest prospects, quickly fall out of favor with fans and the news media. But at least that quest, which continues Friday when Real Madrid plays Atlético Madrid at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, is within Vinícius Júnior’s control; the friends and family members who have uprooted their lives to support him already have surrendered part of their own identities to help him flourish. Menegate acknowledged as much one afternoon as he waited for his friend to return from training.

“I know that we are not just Menegate and Wesley anymore because people now just see us as the two guys who live with Vinícius,” he said.

Still, the attempts at normalcy continue. His aunt Vanessa, who is part of the entourage, cooks every meal for the household, and the menu rarely changes: rice, beans and protein, staples of family meals throughout Brazil. Most days, the family gathers at the table a couple of hours before dinner; they wash down slices of a cornmeal cake, known as bolo de fubá, with sweet Brazilian coffee as pagode music blares from a living room speaker. Except for the fact the group is sitting in a home whose previous occupant was the chief executive of one of Spain’s largest retailers, the scene could be one set back in the cramped apartment in São Gonçalo, family and friends enjoying one another’s company, discussing soccer and the quality of aunt Vanessa’s cooking.

The next day, Vinícius will return to training. The club will focus on his development. The agents will focus on his millions. The family members and the old friends will offer their company. The auntie will prepare more beans and rice.

“My dad says, ‘Just focus on the pitch,’” Vinícius Júnior said. “‘You don’t have any problem off the pitch.’”

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An Easy Guide to Choose Best Irrigation and Sprinkler Repair Services

All greenery you see around needs a few basic things to survive and thrive. Like water, air and sunlight. But which plants and trees need more or less of these can be done with the accurate installation of an irrigation system. It will help in maintaining the greenery in plants and help them grow in the right way with blooming flowers and fruits. A poor system can lead to bad conditions for plants, like dehydration or famishment, which will invite a lot of repairing work, and may kill some plants. It might also need a new installation of systems for watering. In conditions like these, trusted irrigation repair services will be much in need, or it will further spoil the condition of your garden space. Let’s see major factors that will assist you in choosing the best services:

➔ Check if the service providers are willing to provide details of their previous clientele. If you have a talk or get word from old customers of the service providers, it will give you reviews about their quality of work. The service company should be happy to do so, as they will also let their work do the talking with the new customers. It’s a kind of vocal feedback from the customers. If the company refuses to do so, then they might be hiding something, or may not have happy clients in their previous affairs. a ➔ In case the repair work in your garden is intricate and requires a heavy revamp or correction, the choice of your service firm should have experience in handling works like that. Even if the companies say yes immediately to the task, you need to get a background check on them as well. Check online about their feedback on search engines, and service-providing websites. Read about the review or testimonials posted by the previous customers and see if the jobs are similar to your work or congruent to the size of work you require. If the service provider’s website has an absence of those pages, see if there are reviews on the Google business page profiles or similar search engines. See if they are present on various social media platforms, and how is the comment section on them. Are they full of complaints or have gratitude and happy feedback? The better ratings they carry, the more content you should be in choosing them.

➔ Do observe whether the company admits to the job and sends a quotation right away, or check the details of your work first. Don’t trust the words of the company employees just when they say yes right after listening to your query on phone or reading your email. A good service company will get persons over your address and see what all things they need for repair in your garden. Some good observations can save cost, or they can show you some hidden patches to be done which might miss your eyes. Without observing the place and work, quotations would always be fake. What’s on the ground, needs to be checked on the ground!

➔ See if the quotation covers everything, or are they excluding stuff like taxation, labour costs, material costs, spare part costs, etc. Be thorough about the pricing before they hand you an extra cost bill which they tell you after the work is done.

➔ Lastly, check whether they add something extra to make your place beautiful or just what’s needed. A good company always tries to provide extra than what’s asked of them.

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It is one of the most common reasons behind failing of water pumps in Melbourne, Sydney, and every other place that faces heat waves in Australia. Most electric pumps produce heat automatically as the duration of their usage exceeds a specific time period. Ask any water pump repair provider in Brighton and they will confirm that excessive heat inside and out is one of the common reasons for the failure of water pumps.

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Top Five Reasons For Why Your Electric Water Pump Might Be Failing?

So, you went out of your way to import a high-quality water pump but after a few days, you start facing new issues every other day. It is a highly frustrating process, after spending so much money and time, you still fail to get smooth water flow. How amazing would it be to just switch on the pump and let it run in the long run? But the bad news is even the finest of water pumps develop problems once in a while. Here is a small synopsis of what kind of issues can obstruct the normal working of an electric water pump:

● Excess Heat: It is one of the most common reasons behind failing of water pumps in Melbourne, Sydney, and every other place that faces heat waves in Australia. Most electric pumps produce heat automatically as the duration of their usage exceeds a specific time period. Aks any water pump repair Brighton and they will confirm that excessive heat inside and out is one of the common reasons for the failure of water pumps. The thumb rule states that the mere addition of 10 degrees to motor windings can reduce the life of an electric motor to half. The rule applies to both domestic and industrial pumps equally well.

● Contamination And Dust: Unless a submersible pump is sealed hermetically, an electric motor can easily draw dust particles to itself from its surroundings. It is a bigger problem during summers when dry and dusty winds are frequent. When dust particles accumulate inside the pump windings they result in unexpected damage to the windings of the pump.  The extent of damage relies heavily on the physical properties and size of accumulated particles. If the particles are abrasive in nature (like sand), they bring down the contact components of the electric motor. However, if the accumulated particles have electrical properties they may move across the components and result in a bigger damage. If several particles block the inner workings of the motor, they start generating heat inside the pump which leads to short circuits, excessive heat and several other such problems.

● Anomalies With Power Supply: Not all pumps work on a “plug and play” Modus Operandi. But it is not easy to find specific parameters for a unique application. Apart from this, high frequency switching and pulse width modulation are some of the primary causes of harmonic currents. It can result in voltage and current distortion leading to overheating and overloading. Such factors reduce the motor’s life and add several extra costs to its maintenance. Also, power surges can result in several other malfunctioning and problems in other parts of your electrical connection.

● Humidity And Moisture: Moisture and humidity present in the air can have devastating effects on an electric pump. It may not affect the person in one day, week or month, but regular contact with moist air can easily lead to corrosion in the pump. If any toxic particles are mixed with moisture, it may lead to ‘negative synergy’ that can accelerate the rate of damage exponentially.

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The continent is full of highs and lows and is currently passing through a frequent shortage of water. Therefore, it is a must to find the right ways to minimize water wastage and maximize optimum usage of available water. You may have seen big ads and hoarding for water pumps in Melbourne, water transfer pumps in Hampton, as well as related services like water pump repair in Brighton.

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Once you are done with outdoor lighting you need to find the right place to keep the landscape lights. But before that make sure you have placed enough fixtures to light up your house and keep it safe and tight during the nights. Position the lighting fixtures in a way that they highlight the architectural features and walls of the house in the right way.

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What Kind of Benefits Can You Expect From A High-Pressure Water Pump?

Ask any pump expert and they will tell you that “high-pressure pump” is a rather broad term that includes both centrifugal and positive-displacement pumps. But what further adds to the confusion is that different companies have different definitions for a high-pressure water pump. Despite all these confusions and dilemmas the fact that underlines this discussion is that we all need to cope with the challenges presented by our everyday lives.

 There are so many areas where high-pressure water pumps can make an existential difference. These areas include manufacturing, sewage, agriculture, gardening, and so forth. Here is a summary of the different types and advantages associated with high pressure pumps.

 Types of High-Pressure Pumps

 ●      Boiler Feed Pump: It is normally used for power generation. Whenever the inner rotators of this pump move, power is produced. The high-pressure steam produced in the process moves the turbine to generate power. The boiler consumes the water sent by the boiler and generates heat from the stream. Similarly, high pressure pumps help in nuclear power generation where they are used as reactor feed pumps.

●      Descaling Pump: Descaling pumps are normally used in manufacturing units. They have a role in the making of large-sized complicated appliances like washing machines, refrigerators, and automobiles. Most of these appliances are products of steelworks. Here, the steel ingots are heated to a temperature of a thousand degrees centigrade to be moulded into steel plates for the manufacturing of appliances. This heating leads to the formation of oxidized scales over the plates that need to be cleared away or they will degrade the quality of the finished product. High-pressure water pumps are used to remove these scales and other impurities from the steel sheet before they are sent to rolling mills.

●      Desalination Pump: Desalination pumps are mostly used in Middle East countries and all those places that face acute shortages of water. These pumps help turn seawater into freshwater. Since these pumps mostly deal with seawater, they are manufactured from corrosion-resistant high-grade stainless steel.

●      Agriculture: Here, high-pressure pumps are used as centrifugal pumps. Here the rotors inside the pump draw in water at a rapid force and then throw it out with force from another outlet. Most of these pumps are used for irrigation and watering large-sized fields that need more water in less time. Apart from that, they also have been used in landscaping and gardening on a medium to large scale area.

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Landscape lighting is essential for all those who have an open space around their place. The same stands true for those who have gardens of all sorts within the bounds of their property. So, whether you are talking about garden lighting in Melbourne or Sydney, you need to learn about the ins and outs of this concept. Get more more details visit our Website.

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The Dos and Don’ts Of Outdoor Landscape Lighting

Landscape lighting is essential for all those who have an open space around their place. The same stands true for those who have gardens of all sorts within the bounds of their property. So, whether you are talking about garden lighting in Melbourne or Sydney, you need to learn about the ins and outs of this concept. In this blog, we are discussing a few tips and tricks related to landscape lighting that may come in handy while lighting up your surroundings. So, keep reading.

● The first thing that you need to keep in mind is to not make landscape lighting the centre of your universe. The focus shouldn’t be on illuminating the pathways or the trees defining the space. The primary focus should be on outdoor lighting which is one of the most precious parts of any property.

● Once you are done with outdoor lighting you need to find the right place to keep the landscape lights. But before that make sure you have placed enough fixtures to light up your house and keep it safe and tight during the nights. Position the lighting fixtures in a way that they highlight the architectural features and walls of the house in the right way.

● The most important thing to remember about landscape lighting is not to group a lot of fixtures in one spot. It is alright to feel the need for creating optimal lighting for a specific space or an object, but if you place too many fixtures around one spot it will draw more attention than it is required. Also, overdoing the lights may kill the overall appeal of the place.

● Next, you need to look to take proper advantage of multiple layers. If you are planning to highlight any specific object, you may want to place the fixtures at different angles to illuminate it from different directions. Strategic placement of fixtures will help reveal silhouettes and would create a dramatic effect on the object as per your expectation.

● Experts also advise avoiding keeping the lights in a straight line as it gives a bland appearance like roadside lamps or airway pathways. So, make sure the lights are placed in a distinct style.

● If it is about lighting up the pathways, you may want to get a bit creative. While it is not about being too unique so as it becomes a distraction or takes away all the attention from the rest of the property, you may stagger the lights or place them in a way that they shine over the pathway.

● Make sure you place ample attention on the selection of light bulbs. Keep things within the parameters of your affordability and energy efficiency. If you go for incandescent bulbs know that they are high on energy consumption and do not last as long as you may like. The ideal power consumption for a landscape is between 40-75 watts. So, anything that falls within this power range would be perfect for a landscape. Also, bulbs with high wattage result in an ugly glare which might be less inviting for the guests and onlookers.

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Understanding Different Types of Sprinkler Heads And Their Applications

It is not easy to select a sprinkler head for a project.  The process breaks down to the knowledge of pressure per square inch (PSI) for every sprinkler head offered in its respective aisle. There is one more factors that plays a key role in the selection and tractors the size of a year that you need to irrigate. The first thing that you need to understand is types of irrigation sprinkler heads prevalent in the present day market.

 Types of Sprinkler Heads

 ●      Spray Heads: Spray heads are most suitable for medium and small sized landscapes for lawns where the operating pressure ranges between 20 to 30 PSI. A lower PSI means the range of spray head what exceed 15 feet in any direction. So is you are planning to get a spray head you need to ensure your that none of the spray heads are placed for then 15 feet away from each other. If the distance exceeds that your loan will have dry spots here and there. You can also install sprinklers that overlap with each other’s coverage area to ensure optimum irrigation on hot days. It is one of the most common recommendations from Brighton irrigation service providers. The biggest advantage of spray heads is that they have much higher applications as compared to every other kind of sprinkler head. It means the rate of water spraying is much faster than all the other kinds. You may select between 360, 210, 90,  120, and 180 degrees spray patterns. Each one of these can be installed with fixed prices or pop up spray bodies.

 ●      Rotary Heads: Also known as sprinkler routers these are mostly used in medium to large size launch that need and irrigation system with PSI over 30. If you are going for small sized rotary heads they will easily cover a distance between 15 to 50 feet. Try to make sure that the distance between Rotary head is less than the required PSI for every head. Note that the delivery rate of of rotary heads is slower as compared to spray heads. However, these heads are less vulnerable to wind drifts because the water is delivered in form of a stream instead of fine misty spray. The slower rate of precipitation increases the efficiency of water usage which is an essential requirement in many parts of Australia.

 ●      Bubblers: Bubblers are designed to deliver large volumes of water quickly in very small spaces like ground covers, area around shrubs, and tree basins. Do not mistake them for small-sized systems which mean they are not to be used in lawns and gardens. Bubblers should also be avoided in areas that retain water for long time and gets flooded with little extra supply of water. The ok strictly to be used in porous soils. But if you have large sized fields or extensive landscapes you should try using drip irrigation system instead of installing multiple bubblers. A drip irrigation system will allow you to control wastage of water and ensure optimal water supply to every single plant.

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Garden Lighting Ideas for Christmas 2021

Christmas lights are the shining beacon of what the festival stands for. It not just illuminates the place but also our hearts and hopes. So, when you put up the Christmas light, it is a signal that you are all set to welcome the upcoming festivities. Whether you are looking forward to going with ‘Blackpool-style’ lighting or just keeping things subtle with some elegant twinkling lights, it is important to have some cool ideas for your landscape or a small green corner that keeps you cosy during the day. In this article, we will be discussing some uber-cool garden lighting ideas that you may try in Melbourne, Sydney, garden LED lighting Sandringham, or wherever you want.

● Creating an entrance: There is no other point better than the entrance, to begin with. You may create a magical effect by festooning your porch with small shapes of twinkling lights along with groups of floor-standing lanterns. You may also create some majestic creatures like a Stag or a pair of deer next to the door that will complete the festive look.  Outdoor lights can easily add the needed warmth for the biggest festival of the year. It is well known that large glasses often turn into big black spaces at night, they may light up your inner space during the day but at night it is very different. When you light up your garden its light reflects on those big glasses and add some more magic to your outdoors.

● Lighting Up The Way Inside: If you have a portico or even a small way from the main door that leads to your entrance, it may be time to light it up. You may also add some special props like some lit-up fountains that may jazz up the place. There are so many water pump stores in Melbourne where you may find some cool pieces for the right price. You may try hanging some lights along the way or wire some twinkling fairy lights along the way. If you have a grass patch along the way, you can always spiral some twinkling lights around them. If you want some extra magic, just bring some extra floor-standing lanterns or lights that are clustered on either side of the door. They will act as the additional layer of lighting on the ground level. It will help the incomers find their way to the front door on frosty and dark evenings. And who knows, they may even bring Santa and the elves at the right time. If you are worried about on or off timings, you can always add some timers so that the lights are off at the exact time automatically.

● Add Some Sparkle To Your Door: If you think your plants are sensitive to the lights, you may want to upgrade your door with a door wreath, and some strings of lights up and down. It can really light up your small outdoor space without hurting your plants. You may also use some mini LED bulbs that can be threaded through the greenery and will twinkle brightly post dark.