Sunday, July 13, 2008

Fabio Coentrao on the way to Eredivise


Fabio Coentrao is this season's first cut. Having started the week with Benfica, Fabio Coentrao was not in Saturday's training session, an absence Benfica justified as "taking care of personal business". This morning Fabio Coentrao was once again absent, but the story was way different. Despite no official confirmation from Benfica, today's "A Bola" reports that Coentrao is on his way to Feyenoord to play in the Eredivise. Feyenoord will have the option of buying Coentrao for 5mm Euros at the end of the loan period(end of this season), this was the value stipulated by Benfica, who will also be free of the winger's wages for the year.

Coentrao was never able to impress Camacho last year and went on loan to Nacional mid-season last season. His high point of the season was when he scored 2 goals against porto at the dragao, wearing the stripes of Nacional. The 20 year old had high hopes for this year, hoping to make the Benfica squad, as a result of his good outings at Nacional, but apparently could not convince Quique.

Today's training session already counted with Urreta, who made his Benfica debut, and showed interesting qualities, according to the club's site.
DiMaria did not participate in today's training session, as he will be joining Argentina's Olympic squad this coming week.

The squad will enjoy the customary day off tomorrow. On Tuesday, we should see Aissa, as well of a lot of the internationals coming back.
No word on whether Adu will be one of the returning internationals. Being that DiMaria has already left to join Argentina, I'm thinking that the US's olympic camp should be starting up soon.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

French newspaper L'Equipe claim that representatives of AS Monaco will be in Lisbon in the next few days to loan Benfica forward Freddy Adu for a season.

The American star had a lack of opportunities last season and may be inclined for a loan to gain more experience, and it also rumoured that Italian outfit Geneva may be interested in his services. Adu arrived at Benfica in 2007 and has a contract until 2012.

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