http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/luis-gustavo/profil/spieler_139352.html brazilian/portuguese born in braga. never seen him play...but im going to just assume a midfield who is playing in barcelona will have great passing lol
There is talk Diego Lopes who will soon get his portuguese citizenship is opting to pledge his allegiance to portugal, for those who dont know who he is, 18 year old benfica product who has been loaned out to Rio Ave along with Roderick, he is a creative midfielder, tall elegant midfielder with a beautiful range of passing, with a very good goal return. Would of definitely been in the under 19 squad if he was illegible. Im pretty sure that he was signed at 15 so i think its 4 years until your eligible, so its not too far away. its conceivable that he will be wearing the number 10 at next years u20s world cup
Obviously. At least he has portuguese ancestry: "da Silva Lopes". Don't know how far back, though. Now that I think of it we can't really complain about the lack of portuguese ancestry of the brazilians who played for Portugal. "Pepe" Képler Laveran Lima Ferreira (Képler and Laveran are his personal names) "Deco" Anderson Luís de Souza Liedson da Silva Muniz Lúcio Soares Celso Luís de Matos
That's dope! I've watched a bunch of juniors matches on BenficaTV, and he's been impressive. It would be nice to see him play for the Portuguese youth squads.
For those of you who have not watched this doco, its on youtube now its about Alfredo 'Cartaxinha' Silva, one of those rare talent ala Ronaldo/Messi. Ofcourse there is no guarantees but this kid is a child prodigy and if he continues to progress he could something special
Portugal Under 20 Striker Fabio Nunes has signed a 3 year deal with Blackburn Rovers, who recently got relegated from the English Premier League. http://www.abola.pt/nnh/ver.aspx?id=339772 David Simao of Portugal's Under 21's has left Benfica and is now a free agent. I hope he can find a club that will allow him to play regularly. http://www.zerozero.pt/noticia.php?id=71281
Another example of teams choosing to play foreigners instead of building form their farm system. Shameful.
FC Brazil.. I mean Porto is notorious for that, and So Lost Benfica too! Please no one get offended with me making fun of the club teams, it's just that Sporting seem to be the only one of the big 3 who develops any kind of Portuguese talent now a days, Porto has Sergio Oliviera and didn't they have Orlando Sa, and how's that development going? Hey Porto, Brazil thanks you for furthering there already powerful team by developing the Hulk, and now Iturbe is next! That's all Messi needs is another young talent to play with. Thank God Fabio Coentrao left Benfica cause he will be the best Defender at Madrid in the next few years. Look at that Portuguese Team and all I see is Sporting Academy... Thank you Sporting, job well done now ship the players all to one team like Spain does with Barcelona, or Italy did this past Euro with Juventus. Mourinho please sign Moutinho and get Nelo from Benfica or Ricardo Vaz Te from West Ham so we could gel... just my thoughts.
I knew it! The first person to comment would be FC Porto fan. I know you don't agree but it's the truth. I'm not bashing Porto it's just they don't develop Portuguese talent like Sporting does, no team in Portugal does. Portugal is my club team, I know it says Liverpool but who do I want to win more definitely Portugal. FC Porto is a great football club, but let me ask you this: To all you big 3 supporters, who do you want to win more your club team or Portugal? That's what i was trying to get across with my earlier post.