Sporting CP Academy - A Fábrica de Talentos

I think he plays well in both positions, but given his 30 goals in 60 games for the B team I think it's a waste to play him too far from the opposition's goal.

A popular opinion among fans is that he would probably be a very good centre midfielder too. I personally believe that with proper management he could play anywhere other than centre back and goalkeeper. This generation's Luis Enrique basically.

 

Betinho was very impressive last weekend when he came on for the last minutes of Setúbal's defeat at Arouca. He only played about 10 minutes and it was just his second game for them after recovering from his injury. I doubt he'll be able to start for them anytime soon, their other forwards are also doing fine, but at least he's already looking more incisive. I hope Couceiro stays at Setúbal next season and we loan them Betinho again, then by 2015-16 he should be ready to fight for a starting spot on our first team.

His highlights start from 2:14.
First a dangerous header after a long ball from João Mário, then a shot deflected by a defender and then another violent shot from outside the box that hit the post.

http://www.tvgolo.com/jogo-showfull-1396220153-1304288520--39

 

Sporting B defeated Feirense this morning at Santa Maria da Feira.

Feirense 1-2 Sporting B
Luís Ribeiro; Ricardo Esgaio, Matías Pérez, Rúben Semedo, Seejou King; Kikas, Wallyson Mallmann, Filipe Chaby (74' out for Edelino Ié); Iuri Medeiros (82' out for Luka Stojanovic), Wilson Eduardo, Ousmane Dramé (85' out for Lewis Enoh)

Goals by Wallyson Mallmann (again!) assisted by Dramé and Wilson Eduardo assisted by Iuri.

http://www.tvgolo.com/jogo-showfull-1396781417---39

 

Betinho and João Mário are starting right now for Vitória de Setúbal against Nacional.

You can follow it here: http://www.rojadirecta.me/goto/micast.tv/gen5.php?ch=sporttv1
Veetle: http://www.sporttvhdmi.com/Sporttv1-veetle.html

 

Betinho subbed off. He assisted Rafael Martins for his second goal and had a great shot from outside the box that hit the post. He and his teammates upfront still don't connect very well, especially him and Ricardo Horta.

 

João Mário with us next season looks like a given, he has been imense for Setúbal dictating their game with Pedro Tiba by his side.
I found Horta a little underwhelming though, he looks like a less creative version of Iuri Medeiros.

 

Diego Rubio played his first official game today for Sandnes Ulf and scored their only goal on a 4-1 defeat against Lillestrom.

 

Wallyson Mallmann who was on loan since he arrived one and a half years ago has signed for us. We paid €350.000 for 70% of his rights and he'll stay with us for the next five years. I don't know who we bought him from, probably some player's fund.

I'm really glad he signed, he has been with Esgaio our best B team player in the second half of the season.

 

He came from there but I doubt they owned his rights.

 

Diego Rubio's second game, Diego Rubio's second goal.

 

Our u13 team won the Torneio Internacional de Futebol Infantil organised by CAC Pontinha. It's one of, if not the most important u13 tournaments in Europe, and besides us, Benfica and FC Porto, teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Lyon, PSG, Inter Milan, Manchester United, Lokomotiv have participated in it's 33 years of competition.

This year the participating teams were:

Group A: Fulham, Recreativo Huelva, CAC Pontinha, FC Porto
Group B: Al Ahli Dubai, Malaga CF, Sporting CP, SL Benfica

We came second on our group behind Malaga, defeated FC Porto in the semis and then defeated Malaga in the final 3-1. The final was on TV.
We started it like this:



14' Goal for Malaga
30' Diogo Rodrigues out for Hevertton Santos
30' Henrick Oliveira out for Nuno André Cardoso
30' Rui Reis out for Tiago Gouveia
38' Goal for Sporting, Félix Correia scored with a volley from outside the box
51' Goal for Sporting, Captain Carlos Silva scored off a corner
59' Goal for Sporting, Tiago Gouveia inside the box created a chance on his own and put it on the back of the net
60' FT 3-1
During the second half Rui Reis came on again for Ricardo Cardoso but I don't know exactly when.

Ronaldo Camará was the youngest player in the tournament, he's two years younger than the rest of his teammates but you wouldn't know, he was our best player. He's strong, fast, really confortable on the ball and had a great chance on a distant free kick, but the ball hit the bar. After the game he was asked on a flash interview who were his references in the world of football and he said "William Carvalho and Paulo Pogba". He did look like a very young version of them, especially Pogba.
I also liked Félix Correia, he wasn't that good in the first half but he got better in the second. He's really technical and has a great dribble.
Gonçalo Franco caught my eye too, he was the smallest kid on the pitch, but he was great, like a little Gattuso, always on top of Malaga's midfielders. He didn't let them breathe.
Tiago Gouveia didn't play much in the final but he did score a goal, and he was the tournaments top goalscorer.

 

Here is some footage of this team winning a tournament in the Azores last summer. From 10m54 you can see Ronaldo Camará scoring an hat trick against Paris SG in the final. We won it 5-1.

 

Did you see that on wikipedia?

 

I saw it the other day, it was just a troll. If you want squad numbers for portuguese teams (and Sporting's youth team rosters) go to zerozero. Their english version isn't as good because a few things aren't translated. But other than that you aren't going to find a better and more up to date website on Portuguese football.

Other than Dier or Ilori (whose father is an englishman of nigerian descent) the only british player I can find to recently play for us is Zack Aguiar Blackwell, an u13 who played for us two years ago, he's playing now at the aforementioned CAC Pontinha.