Anderson Could End Up At Benfica

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Manchester United player Oli­veira An­der­son could be on his way to Primeira Liga gi­ant Ben­fica. The Es­ta­dio da Luz out­fit see the in­nov­at­ive mid­field play­maker as a suit­able re­place­ment for Bel­gium in­ter­na­tional Axel Wit­sel who is at­tract­ing the in­terest of sev­eral lead­ing clubs, in­clud­ing both Manchester City and Manchester United.

An­der­son Luís de Ab­reu Oli­veira, to give him his full name, first ap­peared for local team Gre­mio and then FC Porto be­fore he signed with Manchester United for a cool £18 mil­lion at the be­gin­ning of the 2007-08 cam­paign. While at Manchester United, the mul­ti­func­tional player has en­dured a miser­able time with nig­gling in­jur­ies and his first team ap­pear­ances have been fairly in­fre­quent. Given his geo­graph­ical back­ground, how­ever, it is prob­ably only fair to claim that the samba styled mid­fielder was not prop­erly pre­pared for the pace and phys­ic­al­ity of the game in Eng­land. A Brazil in­ter­na­tional, An­der­son made his senior de­but in a 2–0 de­feat to Mex­ico at the Polide­port­ivo Cachamay in Pu­erto Or­daz in June 2007 and has played eight matches for his nat­ive coun­try. Car­los Al­berto: “In Brazil, we com­pared him to Ron­ald­inho be­cause he is a very skilled player. But over here, he seems to be play­ing more de­fens­ively and this is not the best way for him to play.”

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