Team of Tomorrow Tuesday: Bruno Pereirinha

May 6th, 2008 | By: Greg | 4 Comments »

bpr This week’s featured footballer is twenty year old right midfielder / winger / back Bruno Pereirinha. Pereirinha not only plays for the U21 team but also has featured a number of times this season for Paulo Bento’s second place Sporting CP side. Bruno is the eptiome of a blue collar player: he does everything well, but nothing particularly outstanding.

He doesn’t generally tend to stand out in any given match and will not often be found on the score sheet. Pereirinha is a scrappy utility guy who can be plugged in at a number of positions and hold his own rather well. Look for him in important matches to play a vital role for whatever side he is representing. While he will probably not be a superstar for his club or country, he’ll be the player in the background that’s instrumental in steering his team to the next level. Check out his composure as he scores an important goal for Sporting in this year’s UEFA Cup match against Bolton…

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Comments

By Pedro | May 6th, 2008 at 7:11 am

Pereirinha is my favourite for the team of the Future… He’s an attacking mid but not a winger. He’s perfect to play with 2 strikers. He also plays right-back, I think.
Actually, I think that’s where he started and then was tested a bit more up-front. You can see he’s not a winger but he attacks very well and builds a lot as well.
Latelly, the trend has been to adjust average wingers - considering we always have a million of them - into good full-backs. Miguel and Bosingwa are two very good examples - because of this, they attack/support a lot when playing right-back. Plus, they have lungs and legs that never get tired…
With Pereirinha was the opposite, I think - he was too good to be a full-back and could actually have a role in midfield, not just on the flanks.
I think…

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By Greg | May 6th, 2008 at 7:25 am

When I was referring to him as a winger, it was more in the vein of a wing-back, like Bosingwa, not like Ronny, Nani, or Quares.

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By Pedro | May 6th, 2008 at 11:40 am

I wasn’t tring to correct you, sorry Greg. I was just thinking loud… I mean, although he isn’t a winger per se, he can play wide.
Mostly he supports attack,like the goal you post. Which was a very good goal, considering his age and that it was the UEFA 2nd leg.

Come to think of it, all our dangerous players are attack supporters… Wingers, attacking mids, etc… What we still don’t have (I wonder if we’ll ever have one - maybe it’d never fit in…) is a cold blooded striker, that doesn’t play shit but scores like hell…