Ricardo Quaresma

[James 5,138]

Ricardo Andrade Quaresma Bernardo (born September 26, 1983, in Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese footballer partly of Gypsy heritage,usually positioned as an attacking winger.

He joined us yesterday from Internazionale fon loan for the remainder of the 2008/09 season.

His style of play can be defined as one with speed, grace,toughness, and often plays a free role on the pitch. He currently playsfor Inter in the Italian Serie A and the Portugal national football team. Initially nicknamed Mustang by former Sporting Clube de Portugal coach Laszlo Bölöni, his nickname in Portuguese is "Cigano" which literally translates into "Gypsy".

He's regularly compared to fellow Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo for the similarities both possess in terms of their speed and dribblingabilities, as well as their style of play. He also specialized the "Trivela"shooting technique, which is his ability to swerve, bend the ballperfectly with the outside of his boot when executing crosses, freekicks and long shots.

Welcome Ricardo

[terry26 6]

think he'll want the number 77 shirt - because i'm sure no one has that at the moment

thanks to jose for sending him this way

[diskoviolente 425]

Hey José, how about Drogba and 7 mill. pounds for Quaresma and Ibrahimovic, oh, and we put Malouda on it for free

[chrismada9 1,948]

think he'll want the number 77 shirt - because i'm sure no one has that at the moment

thanks to jose for sending him this way

Or maybe number 7??

[Elliott 7]

Number 7 seems like the painfully obvious choice, but up to him in the end.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Don't take the number 7...

Maniche, Mutu, Shevchenko... its bloody cursed

[Elliott 7]

You forgot about the legendary Winston Bogarde BlueLion!

[chrismada9 1,948]

.... and Didier Deschamps

[DavidEU 2,023]

Someone told me he's taken the 37. TBC though.

Not really like EPL clubs to give numbers in the seventies, eighties and nineties like in Serie A.

[Elliott 7]

I wonder if it is banned here for numbers to be that high? It might well be.

He'll be given a high squad number because he is only on loan I suppose.

[DavidEU 2,023]

He likes the 7 involved in the number though.

17/27 for Portugal.

7 for Porto.

77 for Inter.

Sounds stupid but I hope the club stop him having '7'. They told Robben not too, and he didnt. Sheva was obviously different though. 17 and 27 are taken, so 37 is the next option. We'll see.

[chrismada9 1,948]

Quaresma getting number 37?? seems very odd

just claim number 7, it's gaping! LOL

[Elliott 7]

Why did the club tell Robben not to take 7?

[DavidEU 2,023]

Because of Bogarde.

Don't know if thats 100% official, but on the tour a few years ago, the guy said that he wanted 7, but was told about who had worn it before and he chose 16.

[chrismada9 1,948]

Edited February 3, 2009 by CJ Revo

[Elliott 7]

I edited your post CJ. tags are allowed, you just had the wrong url in the tags.

[James 5,138]

Accourding to wikipedia his been given Number 7.

Link

[terry26 6]

do we really wanna trust wiki after reading about David Villa ?

Don't take the number 7...

Maniche, Mutu, Shevchenko... its bloody cursed laugh.gif

Brian Laudraup wasn't the worst but not exactly the best either