After much speculation it was with great fanfare (not really) that the Impact announced their 2 new player signings today. Midfielders Helder Filipe Da Costa Soares (pictured left) and Philippe Billy (pictured right DUH!!).
Soares 27 yrs old, also known as Filipe Pastel played in Portugal 2nd division for 10 years and was also selected for the Portuguese Under-20 National Team. He is expected to take the place of the recently departed Joey Gjertsen (does San Jose constantly scout our games or something!?) as an offensive midfielder. Here is a brief compilation video (looks pretty impressive to me) :
Excuse the annoying little background music
Billy 28 yrs old, bounced around a lot playing briefly in Serie A with Lecce, but mostly seeing action in French Ligue 2 having played the last 2 seasons with Stade Brestois.
It's kind of hard for me to give an honest opinion about these 2 new acquisitions having never actually seen them play, but both having consistently played in euro 2nd divisions they most definitely have the skills to succeed in USSF D2.
Time will tell if they adapt themselves well to the team and North American footy. Hopefully they will have as much of an Impact (not meant as a pun) as Cristian Arrieta did for Puerto Rico, when he came over from Serie B in Italy in 2008. Arrieta was named USL-1 MVP in 2009.
I'm hoping to head down to the Impact's practice facility in Brossard to check them out in person tomorrow.
More later..
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