Inter presented midfielder Fernando on Thursday afternoon (7). The experienced midfielder, 36, recently arrived at Beira-Rio from Vila Nova, in Goiás. The player explained his departure from the Goiás club, the club of his heart, after staying less than two months and says he saw a great chance to continue at a high level in Colorado.
Fernando was presented a day after striker Rafael Borré. He was given the number 5 shirt by president Alessandro Barcellos, who also presented the player with the club’s 136,000th member card. The midfielder praised Colorado’s insistence on having him at Beira-Rio.
“Inter came to me in 2021, I ended up renewing with Sevilla. However, it was the club that tried to bring me here, but Sevilla wanted to renew my contract and I stayed there for another year and a half. After coming to Brazil, everything was almost right for me to come here, but it turned out that personal problems, family, things that we can’t control, I decided to stay close to my father, my mother, to try to help them through this difficult time. However, thank God we’re finally together and now we have to work to bring joy to the fans,” he said.
Volante played with Lucho, Coudet’s current assistant
The experienced player spent almost 17 years in Europe. In 2007, he left Vila Nova for Porto. His success in Portugal led Fernando to attract interest from Manchester City, where he played for three seasons. In the last of these, he was coached by Pep Guardiola, who had just arrived at the Citizens. As well as Porto and City, Fernando also spent two seasons with Galatasaray in Turkey and four and a half years with Sevilla.
At the press conference, he praised the current boss of the English side and Lucho González, a former Porto teammate and current assistant to coach Eduardo Coudet. Fernando said that he has good defensive skills and assured that he can also play as a defender.
“I’ve always been a player characterized by defending well, by helping the defenders not to concede goals. The last club I played for in Spain, Sevilla, we went down in the club’s history for defending well, for going many games without conceding a goal. I think that offensively Inter have a lot of good players, they attack very well, and then we need to improve that defensive part.”
Fernando’s debut could be in the Brazil Cup
Fernando has been training at Inter for a week and could already make his debut for Colorado, as he has been regularized in the CBF’s BID. Next Wednesday, the team faces Nova Iguaçu in Brasilia in the second round of the Copa do Brasil. As a result, he should be used by Coudet in the match.
Before the national competition, Inter play São Luiz at Beira-Rio on Saturday in the quarter-finals of the Campeonato Gaúcho. Fernando and Borré are not registered for the state championship.
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