Eduardo Ferreira: “An FC Porto player must give everything for the club” | OneFootball

Eduardo Ferreira has signed his first professional contract and extended his link with the club he has represented since 2023. This season, the 17-year-old forward has been the top scorer in the National U19 Championship with 25 goals, and this Monday he opened his scoring account for the B team against Lusitânia de Lourosa.

Born in Lisbon, the striker started playing for Belenenses at the age of eight and stayed at the club until he was 15, when he received an offer from FC Porto after standing out at Restelo for his clinical finishing and for being the top scorer of the U15 team, with 11 goals in 34 games.

In the summer of 2023, he joined the club he had “always wanted to play for” and quickly began to make an impression: in his debut season, he scored 16 goals and provided four assists in 24 matches, becoming the fifth most-used player and the second-highest scorer for the blue-and-white U16 side, behind only Rúben Barbosa, who scored 17.

In his second season with FC Porto, Eduardo Ferreira was directly involved in 20 goals after scoring 12 and providing eight assists in the 34 games he played for the U17s, showing very positive signs for the future.

In the current campaign, the top scorer in the National U19 Championship has already totaled 25 goals in 31 games, and his strong performances for the youth team caught the attention of João Brandão, who brought him on in the 79th minute of FC Porto B’s win over Torreense at the end of February.

Since then, the striker has been racking up minutes in the Segunda Liga and also featured in this Monday’s clash in Paços de Ferreira against Lusitânia de Lourosa. Coming on in the 74th minute, with FC Porto B trailing 1-0, the number 53 scored for the first time in professional competitions and rescued a point shortly before the 90th minute.

The young Portuguese international’s performances led Francesco Farioli to call him up to first-team training, at a time when FC Porto are leading the league and are involved in the semi-finals of the Portuguese Cup and the Europa League quarter-finals.

In the final stretch of the “best season” of his career, Eduardo Ferreira signed a professional contract and says he is determined to “keep working” to live up to this “vote of confidence,” especially because “an FC Porto player must be willing to give everything for the Club.”

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