Grêmio will increase the number of observers in Brazil this year. The club's base categories currently have six professionals dedicated to the function and will have double the staff to try to speed up the discovery of new talents. The observers are spread across the country in regions considered strategic for Grêmio. The intention is always to observe young people before not only the big clubs, but also the training teams that sell to the big ones. A common fact in the interior of São Paulo, for example. With six new professionals, Grêmio believes it can accelerate the evaluation process and speed up observations. It can, for example, move a person more quickly to analyze the player in training and games. – We will reach places we did not reach today, it's a speed. Sometimes the agent indicates a boy, but since we are not there, we need to bring the boy here. It can get much faster because football is very fast, it's already there and looks – explains the base coordinator Francesco Barletta. With this, the club can also reduce the period in which the player will be in tests in Porto Alegre. With a faster decision, the accommodation can receive a greater flow of athletes. Currently, a part of the rooms is reserved for athletes in testing. This change is part of the project to value the base categories and focus on formation to boost revenues. There are 17 capture nuclei, 16 of them in Brazil (five in RS and one in SC, PR, SP, RJ, DF, MT, AL, PB, RN, CE and MA) and one in Panama City. These spaces receive players from a radius of 200 kilometers and the young people already enter the methodology of Grêmio. Last year, the club opened a nucleus exclusively to receive goalkeepers. Grêmio still has 72 schools affiliated in Brazil. These structures necessarily give preference to the club when there is interest in the aspirants to athletes. It is up to the Tricolor, then, to define by incorporation in the structure of the club's base or not. Paulo Araújo, Grêmio's capture coordinator, at the inauguration of the nucleus to search for goalkeepers – Photo: Grêmio / Divulgação