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FOTO:
fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
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NOME
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| MARCO
Paulo Coimbra de ABREU |
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POSIÇÃO
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Médio / Defesa Esquerdo
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DATA DE NASCIMENTO
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| 08/12/1974 |
| NATURALIDADE |
| Lobango
(Angola) |
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INTERNACIONALIZAÇÕES |
AA
por Angola
(Estreia no Marrocos-Angola
em 17/01/2006)
Presente no "Mundial" 2006 |
CLUBES
(camadas jovens) |
| Viseu
e Benfica (88/89) |
| inactivo (89/90) | | CD Drizes (90/91) | GD Oliveira de Frades
(91/92 a 92/93) | |
| UD Sampedrense
(93/94) |
| Acad.
Viseu (94/95) 5-0 |
| Acad.
Viseu (95/96) 30-0 |
| Acad.
Viseu (96/97) 24-1 |
| Acad.
Viseu (97/98) 22-0 |
| U. Madeira (98/99) 29-1 |
Trofense
(99/00) 10-0
* - até Dezembro
U. Madeira (99/00) 21-2
* - a partir de Janeiro |
| Varzim
(00/01) 6-0 |
| Sp.
Covilhã (01/02) 36-1 |
| Sp.
Covilhã (02/03) 22-3 |
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Ovarense (03/04) 29-1 |
Ovarense (04/05) 18-1
* - até Janeiro
Olhanense
(04/05) 14-0
* - a partir de Fevereiro
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| Portimonense
(05/06) 15-1 |
| Portimonense
(06/07) 19-2 |
| Espinho
(07/08) 32-6 |
| Espinho
(08/09) 27-3 |
| Espinho
(09/10) 22-3 |
| Avanca
(10/11) 25-2 |
| Avanca
(11/12) 24-0 |
| inactivo (12/13) | | Avanca
(13/14) |
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Marco Abreu, na 8.ª jornada da Lia de Honra na época 2004/05,
frente ao Olhanense pela Ovarense. A partir de Fevereiro veio
para Olhão.
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[ FOTOS: Jorge
Monteiro ]
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Angola's
Abreu prepares to face adopted country
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Although defender Marco Abreu
fled war-torn Angola as a toddler and has never been back he still
considers the southwest African country home.
Abreu is preparing for Angola's FIFA World Cup™ debut on Sunday
against Portugal, the country he escaped to with his family shortly
after the civil conflict broke out in 1975.
Born in Lubango, the capital of central Huila province, Abreu's
family fled from a war that was to last 27 years and by the end
had devastated much of the country.
"My family left Angola because of the war. My father was
white, so it was too dangerous for us to stay," he said.
"My parents have since visited Angola but no, I haven't been
back."
Growing up in Portugal and playing his club football at Portimonense,
Abreu has mixed feelings about facing his other home country in
their very first match at the FIFA World Cup.
"Portugal is one of the teams I would have preferred to avoid
but the balls (in the draw) said Portugal versus Angola, so we
can do nothing about it," he said. "Now I am in the
Angolan team and I am thinking only about Angola."
A solid defender who will be competing for the left-back position
with Luis Delgado, Abreu perhaps has extra motivation for wanting
to perform well against the Portuguese.
"My friends are all in Portugal, they are all Portuguese
and of course they will be supporting Portugal. They will be watching,
so I have to play very well so that I can say to them, 'Look,
we won'," he said.
He is also aware of what the game means to the people of Angola,
the former Portuguese colony that became independent in 1975 and
is enjoying a petrodollar-fuelled reconstruction boom.
"It means a lot. All the Angolan people want to prove that
Angola is a good country, that it is better now and that it wants
to rebuild, and they want to show this to the Portuguese people
in particular," he said.
"In Portugal there are a lot of people from Angola who say
they don't mind if we lose all the other games, so long as we
beat Portugal," he laughed.
Abreu said the game would be emotional but he does not expect
a repeat of the bad behaviour in their last meeting.
That game, in Lisbon in 2001, ended in a 5-1 defeat for Angola
and was abandoned 20 minutes before the end after Angola had four
players dismissed.
"Many of those players in that game played in Portugal in
the first division. I think that was the problem. I don't think
it will be the same story on Sunday," he said.
Abreu is looking forward to the opening Group D match when the
enormity of being at the FIFA World Cup will finally sink in.
"This is the most important thing to happen to me in my career.
It is a once in a lifetime experience but, at the moment, I can't
find the words to describe it.
"When I stand in the stadium, I will feel what it is to be
in the World Cup, then I will understand," he said. After
Portugal, Angola face Mexico and Iran. |
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