FC Porto, currently on loan, mother is a Kiwi. Midfielder. Tried to loan him to Villarreal last year but it fell through. Been a professional for 5 years. Played for Portuguese U21.
Picking up from a comment on the Winston Reid thread, if the above information is correct then this is an avenue well worth taking.
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Yes it could be an interesting option for Ricki Herbert to complete his midfield, especially with MLS maybe going on strike. In this case, Elliott and Oughton might be out of form for the world cup...
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Gourdie, time to work your magic again.
You know we belong together...
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Very interesting indeed. I think this is well worth a look. Does anyone here actually know Gourdie? Someone point this in his direction.
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any other sauce? Hasn't come up from all the other know it alls trainspotters before...I thought we'd actually done really well and most of our overseas talent on board...
martinb2010-03-14 18:12:56
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If it is true... then this could be hiuge for us.
Breaking into the Portugal national side will not be easy and he may never make it... e.g Arteta and Spain, so this could be his only real chance to play international football and make the WC.
The WC should be a huge carrotm with him on loan he'd probaly like being put out in the largest football shopping window there is.
And we need a quality CM, big time!!
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LOL that's what I was thinking, I'm guessing his English is "limited."
You know we belong together...
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Who cares if he speaks English or not lol. I'd imagine we'd cop a bit of flak from the foreign media if we played a guy with a name like that! Wonder what name he'd want on his shirt? Nuno, Miguel, Prata or Coelho? 
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Deeply suspicious about that Wiki entry.
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Wikipedia. And you believe this? f**k me.
Three for me, and two for them.
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this thread has done well to get this far! 
I think someone said in the other thread that this wiki entry was edited to include the NZ link from an Aussie IP address yesterday...
I think someone said in the other thread that this wiki entry was edited to include the NZ link from an Aussie IP address yesterday...
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Well, he exists as a player... but on his kiwi parentage??
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will have to wait and see what comes true of this....extremely suss though
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For anyone who believes this, can you please send me your bank account details in a PM? Cheers.
Three for me, and two for them.
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Very interesting indeed. I think this is well worth a look. Does anyone here actually know Gourdie? Someone point this in his direction.
Who is Gourdie??? Is it a journalist or somebody who knows Herbert?
Actually I have no problem to trust the info because his father is originally from Timor Leste(Portuguese colony) which is close geographically from NZ.
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Very interesting indeed. I think this is well worth a look. Does anyone here actually know Gourdie? Someone point this in his direction.
Who is Gourdie??? Is it a journalist or somebody who knows Herbert?
Actually I have no problem to trust the info because his father is originally from Timor Leste(Portuguese colony) which is close geographically from NZ.
Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro and Wellington Phoenix, my two teams til death do us part.
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Timor Leste may not be too far from NZ but I wouldn't believe it based on that. Looks somewhat suspicious (to say the least) but would be awesome if it was true.
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He's definitely got a Kiwi look (if this is actually him??). Hilarious.
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Hey if we edit Mikel Arteta's wikipedia page so that he has NZ parentage too can we get him to play for us?
Three for me, and two for them.
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well, we could definitely start a thread about it
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I'm a portuguese speaker so I'll see if i can find anything out from portuguese sources....
Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro and Wellington Phoenix, my two teams til death do us part.
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can't find anything conclusive, probably bullsh*t....
Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro and Wellington Phoenix, my two teams til death do us part.
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can't find anything conclusive, probably bullsh*t....
No. Way!!!!!!
Three for me, and two for them.
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someone should find him on facebook just to make sure
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can't find anything conclusive, probably bullsh*t....
No. Way!!!!!!
Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro and Wellington Phoenix, my two teams til death do us part.
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I wrote to Andrew Gourdie from tv3: hopefully he is going to confirm the info with the player and speak about that to Herbert
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If there is a possibility it is true we must look into it. Simple if not, what will it cost us, a couple long range phone calls??
If someone tole me they were talking to a guy over facebook about playing for nz and getting positive feedback i'd think it a laugh... oh thats right it worked.
Why can't this turn out the same?
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If there is a possibility it is true we must look into it. Simple if not, what will it cost us, a couple long range phone calls??
If someone tole me they were talking to a guy over facebook about playing for nz and getting positive feedback i'd think it a laugh... oh thats right it worked.
Why can't this turn out the same?
I think we should call every decent player who hasn't played international football yet. Surely they're eligable too.
Three for me, and two for them.
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Facebook and a player on the NZ radar for 3 or 4 years > a Wiki entry.
Just saying.
Just saying.
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Andy Carroll is looking for a team
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Must be a wind-up. Wiki now says "also has a pet hamster named max"...
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Must be a wind-up. Wiki now says "also has a pet hamster named max"...
That's gold.
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Fiction or not, it's stopped me thinking about the Saturday night loss for two whole days!!
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Fiction or not, it's stopped me thinking about the Saturday night loss for two whole days!!
same here.
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