BRAZILIAN BRAVEHEART Daniel Lins Cortes JOINS
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The Nix continue to flex their muscles in the transfer market with the acquisition of Brazilian Daniel Lins Cortes.
The left-sided wing-back -simply known as Daniel - had been targeted by both Adelaide United and the Newcastle Jets. But it was Wellington Phoenix coach Ricki Herbert who won the battle for the 27-year-old's signature late last night.
"It's a great coup for the club," Herbert told Sunday News. "It has taken a lot of work but we finally got our man."
Daniel, who had a spell in the Dutch first division with FC Twente, has played most of his professional football in the Brazilian Campeonato, for Juventude and Botafogo. He has also played in Hungary for Videoton FC.
The A-League has a small but significant profile in Brazil thanks to South American talent such as former Melbourne star Fred, Adelaide's Fernando and Newcastle's outgoing Colombian striker Milton Rodriguez.
"I worked my contacts in Australia and South America in getting the deal done and I've watched a lot of DVDs," Herbert said.
"Daniel is the type of player that loves getting forward and putting opponents under pressure. And he's a free-kick specialist.
Meanwhile, Herbert confirmed that talks between the club and his All Whites captain Danny Hay had broken down.
"It would be accurate to say that at this stage it seems unlikely Danny with be with the Nix," Herbert said.
Sunday News understands recently retired All White striker Vaughan Coveny and current international Jeremy Christie will be added to the now 11-strong Nix squad this week.
And at least two more South Americans - both strikers - will be named before the last week of May.
Confirmed signings include Daniel, Australians Steven O'Dor and Vince Lia, Ross Aloisi, Richard Johnson and Michael Ferrante, 17 year old Kiwi phenom Costa Barbarouses and All Whites Mark Paston, Glen Moss, Steven Old and Tim Brown.
http://stuff.co.nz/sundaynews/4049658a19778.htm] Daniel Lins C�rtes
Daniel Lins C�rtes (born 12th December 1979 in Niteroi, Brazil) is a Brazillian football player, who currently plays for Madureira in the Brazillian Championship. He is a typically flamboyant play-maker, who has been linked with a move to Wellington Phoenix in the Australian A-League.
CareerC�rtes began his career as a promising junior at Rio powerhouse, Flamengo. After appearing for the Brazillian U/18 national team over a dozen times, with childhood friend Kaka, a lack of form left him on the international sidelines for two years. He returned in 1999 with Rio club, Madureira, where he became an instant fans' favourite, leading his side to a runners up spot in the Carioca Championship.
The form of C�rtes caught the eye of European scouts, and he was soon on his way to the Dutch Eredivise. After twelve goals and a debut appearance off the bench for the Brazillian national team, C�rtes landed a big money move to Hungarian Champion, Videoton.
After being convinced to return home to Brazil by Botafogo legend, Jairzinho, C�rtes helped the fallen Rio giants regain their status in the Brazillian top-flight. The attack-minded defender was instrumental in his first season back at the club, scoring ten goals, including a memorable hat-trick against local rival Fluminense.
A Brazillian BraveheartA little known fact about C�rtes is that his father left the family when C�rtes was only ten, leaving Daniel and older brother Joao to support their mother and four sisters. Joao was one of the many unfortunate victims of the Favellas gang violence, cruelly gunned down in the street. The tragedy left Daniel more determed to get his family out of the Favellas and saw football as his greatest opportunity to achieve this.
THE FIRST OF THE BRAZILAINS!
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Video footage here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfqQ86Kz3ko
two more videos of him on the "related" panel to the right.
I'm pretty sure this is the guy, first video has him at Botofago.
Chances are this is him.
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YEAH SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD! hoping that juninho joins with him too
then we can have a classy midfield to rip open the a-league
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ye add juninho into the mixer and there u go
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Great signing, looking forward to seeing him on the pitch in the Phoenix colours.
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If he's half as good as he looks on those videos, he'll definitely
bring some punters to the games.
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These are the kind of signings that raise the profile of the team
off the field. The media will have a field day with this, and
that is only good news for the Phoenix! Look at how positive
Fred was for the league last year, this is very very
exciting!
Normo's coming home
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heshould attract the fans in too!
WHERES YOUR FREEEEED AT
WHERES YOUR FRED AT
WHERES YOUR FRED AT
WHERES YOUR FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEED AT
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This guy looks genius. Loves to meg people by the looks of it.
Founder
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ye freekick man too. just what they need, knights didnt have one. can play in defence as well, which makes him even better!
lets just hope hes better than that Fernando de
Moraes
scotland4euro082007-05-06 14:17:29
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If the Youtube is right, he looks like a great crosser, something
the Knights missed last year
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Damn..If that is him on the youtube link...He will destroy the
A-league defenses.
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yeha it is him i think. sounds like a great player. sign juninho
aswell then we have 2 destoriers :P
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Meg! Haha, Feverish you English?
Looks like a godsend. GO THE PHOENIX!
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I was born in a nest.
Anyway, saw Costa on the town last night. Should have hooked
up an interview actually (Costa if you read this then PM me).
The young lad was probably a bit dumbfounded when an un-named
Miramar player kept chanting "There's only one Ricki Herbert, he
loves his sherbert" and "We're playing for the Nix, We love our
Weet-a-bix"
Founder
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"We're playing for the Nix, We love our Weet-a-bix"
Nice one...THough maybe not use it until Weetbix is a
sponsor.
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"We're playing for the Nix, We love our Weet-a-bix"
Nice one...THough maybe not use it until Weetbix is a
sponsor.
haha ^ ^ great one, lol and we shud def get weetbix our
sponser just for that
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Anyway, saw Costa on the town last night.
Hey, you should have grabbed him and taken him home to his
Mother. We can't have our future young stars out on the
bash..........
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Damn that Brazilian looks good.
I can hear the crowd at the Caketin singing the tune
to a certain Elton John song now.
Must think of some new lyrics.
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SWEET! and i f the new on this site is correct that there signing
two more south american strikers well rip up the a league i wonder
if a non south american will pick up the 4th spot.
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I'm scared. Really. I'm not being sarcastic. When I compare
Sydney's midfield signing so far, Michael Enfield or something like
that from the USA to this guy, there's no competition. Your
Brazilian wins for sure. But I have to say, I'd still prefer
our Carney than your Daniel...
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But congratulations on beating Adelaide (who I loathe) and
Newcastle to sign him, that's some pretty fierce competition, 2nd
and 3rd from last year, is that where you'll be? I'd say you'll be
a little further down, maybe a close 5th, but you never know.
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Yeah, I hope they learn from the Fred and Melbourne thing..It is a
risk to sign a player for two years not knowing if he will do well
or not but I think they should take the chance and hopefully they
did do a two year contract.
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Yahoo, way better than some old Pom has been (never been ) that
we've had to put up with in the past.
A dog with a bone :)
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Hopefully the've got him for more than a year, he obviously is
class, hell he's got an international cap for Brazil and he's still
in his 20's.
If he has a good year he'll give the nix some credibility and
if he goes while still under contract (highly possible if his that
good) maybe old tony can turn a profit and be rewarded for his
rescue act for football.
great signing.... way to go Ricki.
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I'd be keen to know why he chose us over Adelaide
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same, why he came to nz instead of aus
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The weather obviously, Windless Wellington, the city of sun.
Money i'd guess, another question if he is so good why the A
league? Is he getting over a serious injury?
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yeah thats true. why not aim higher? why is he coming to a smaller
league with smaller money and smaller teams? when theres divison 2s
all around the world with bigger money than the a leage..
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heshould attract the fans in too!
WHERES YOUR FREEEEED AT
WHERES YOUR FRED AT
WHERES YOUR FRED AT
WHERES YOUR FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEED AT
are you serious??? this guy doesnt compare to fred.
is the pheonix sure? i mean you can still have byrnes,
allesandro, vlahos, reccia, robinson, claudinho. a range of
ex-melbourne players who arent good enough, available for you to
sign! that seems to be your targets.
MelbourneFan2007-05-06 20:41:38
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Fred was a good player for Melbourne..But watching the clips of
Daniel...He is without doubt better quality than Fred, You better
hope he doesn't run circles around Melbournes Defense in Round
1.
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Fred was a good player for Melbourne..But watching the clips of
Daniel...He is without doubt better quality than Fred, You better
hope he doesn't run circles around Melbournes Defense in Round
1.
im shaking in my boots!
seriously though, im fairly happy with your teams progress.
more happening here then most other teams!
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seriously though, im fairly happy with your teams progress.
more happening here then most other teams!
Yeah...Especially with perth aven't heard anything happening
there....Wooden spooners this year I reckon.
Nestling2007-05-06 20:49:53
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seriously though, im fairly happy with your teams progress.
more happening here then most other teams!
Yeah...Especially with perth aven't heard anything going up
there....Wooden spooner I reckon.
totally agree. im putting money on it.
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Hopefully the've got him for more than a year, he obviously is
class, hell he's got an international cap for Brazil and he's still
in his 20's.
you seem to forget that brazil hands out international caps like the labour government hands out golden handshakes ;)
As cultured as Che Bunce's left foot and as profilic as John Lammers
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