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Maniche signs for Atlético de Madrid, finally!

August 30th, 2006 | By: Luis | 9 Comments »

Maniche has finally signed for Atlético de Madrid and will be officially presented to club members and fans tomorrow. It’s been a long and bumpy ride for Portugal’s midfield canon. The former FC Porto player was traded, along with Costinha, to Dynamo Moscow back in 2005. The deal went sour early on and both athletes fell out of favor after they expressed some distaste for life in the Russian league. Both players have now come full circle and will be reunited in the “rojiblanco” midfield.

Maniche managed to work out a loan spell with his old pal José Mourinho for part of last year but finding playing time on a star packed team like Chelsea isn’t easy. The World Cup seemed to be a turning point and his performance for Portugal helped to pave a path to this three year contract with Atlético de Madrid.

To celebrate Maniche’s signing, I thought we might revisit his tasty goal in Portugal’s 1 – nil victory over Holland in the round of 16. You can bet you’ll see more of the same in La Liga this season.

Força Portugal!

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Comments

By Pedro P | August 30th, 2006 at 10:43 am

Lovely GOAL!!!

Posted from Netherlands

By Pedro P | August 30th, 2006 at 10:50 am

He’ll be team mate of another portuguese hope, in Atl Madrid: Ze Castro, also U21 (central defender, I think).

Posted from Netherlands

By Pedro P | August 30th, 2006 at 10:55 am

And Manuel Fernandes is also FINALLY a Portsmouth player…

http://www.abola.pt/nnh/index.asp?op=ver&noticia=107508&tema=3

Posted from Netherlands

By Pedro P | September 1st, 2006 at 11:36 am

Futre happy with Maniche’s signing!

http://www.ojogo.pt/22-192/artigo575813.htm

Posted from Netherlands

By eric | September 2nd, 2006 at 11:23 am

any idea who is da next portuguese captain?let me know if you know da answer

Posted from Singapore

By Luis | September 3rd, 2006 at 10:11 am

eric – costinha is the acting captain with perhaps N. Gomes as co-captain.

Posted from United States

By steven | September 3rd, 2006 at 4:07 pm

hi, what was the score against denmark?? i cant find it anywhere.

Posted from United States

By Pedro P | September 4th, 2006 at 11:18 am

4-2 for Denmark… It’s not the end of the world… Only if they loose again tomorrow…

Posted from Netherlands

By Carlos | September 6th, 2006 at 9:11 am

When I was in Portugal (about two weeks ago), Portuguese managers told us it was absolutely sure that Maniche would be playing for any English or Scottish team. Now we’re very surprised and happy to hear about his signing in Spain!
Anyway, is Nuno Gomes completely cured now?
He, Armando Petit and particularly Rui Costa were brilliant in the CL-qualification against Vienna, but Nuno seemed to be in pain and he wasn’t as fast as before.

Posted from Austria