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Sancidino Silva, a former Benfica academy player and a contemporary of names such as Bernardo Silva and João Cancelo, has a new challenge in his career. At 32, the Portuguese-Guinean has been announced as a new signing for Al Irshad, a club that plays in Lebanon’s second division.

part of a generation that would go on to produce some of the biggest talents in Portuguese football.

Sancidino left Portugal in 2018, when he moved to Lausanne in Switzerland. Since then, he has built a career marked by several international experiences and spells in very different leagues, though never in top-level football. After his Swiss adventure, the player represented Armenia’s Ararat Yerevan before heading to Saudi Arabia to play for Al-Taraji, then in the third tier of that country’s football pyramid.

His journey also took him to Cyprus, where he wore the shirt of Ermis Aradippou, and later to Oman, with Sohar Club. More recently, Sancidino had a spell in Italy, representing Leonfortese, a club in the fifth tier of Italian football. Now, the former Benfica academy talent is preparing to embrace another chapter outside Portugal.

Lebanon will be the sixth foreign country in Sancidino’s career, as he looks to remain involved in professional football at a more mature stage of his career. A new adventure for a player who grew up in Seixal alongside future world football stars and who ended up building a very different path from his former teammates.

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