Ex-Benfica prospect warns: Anísio, Banjaqui must stay 100% focused | OneFootball

Ex-Benfica prospect warns: Anísio, Banjaqui must stay 100% focused | OneFootball

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·5 February 2026

Ex-Benfica prospect warns: Anísio, Banjaqui must stay 100% focused

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Benfica continues to be a factory of talent, but not all prospects manage to fulfill the destiny that many foresee for them in the corridors of Seixal, as is the case with Fábio Novo. The former forward, now retired from the pitch, offers some advice to the young Anísio Cabral and Daniel Banjaqui.

Fábio Novo gives his advice: “If I were at Seixal today, my focus would be just one: to be the best football professional possible. I would be 100 percent focused on football in order to reach where I knew I had the ability to go,” he said in an interview with the newspaper Record.


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The winger, who played in the “Glorioso” youth ranks between 2009 and 2016, has no doubts about Banjaqui’s quality, the full-back who became U-17 world champion. “I particularly like him, he is a physical powerhouse, very strong in duels,” he stated.

As for Anísio Cabral, Fábio Novo believes that the forward has a different physique from the others. “Anísio is a different kind of striker, with enormous physical ability. I believe he will have a real opportunity to show the abilities he possesses,” it reads.

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