Da Rocha Fonte ?

[simo]

I'm guessing this is Jose!? Means the rock, which is quite apt!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32140214

Edited 1 April, 2015 by simo

[Wrensup]

Nah it's his little brother Rui da rocha Fonte

[simo]

Nah it's his little brother Rui da rocha Fonte

Learn something new everyday, guess Jose never made the match squad last night then which can't be a bad thing looking at the result!

[Bearsy]

Jose is also da Rock name tho ain't it, it's his mum maiden name

 

Source: I saw that too last night + googled it then

Edited 1 April, 2015 by Bearsy

[SNSUN]

Yep, stumped me too on the England thread last night but corrected myself before know-it-all bods pointed it out. :-)

 

Poor result for Portugal too. Didn't Pele play for Cape Verde Islands? (Our Pele, not Pelle or legend Pele)

[Saint-Armstrong]

José posted this about his call-up and his brother...

 

 

[Bearsy]

not much resemblance is there

[angelman]

It was a charity game wasn't it? Heard on the radio that Cape Verde had some disaster recently and needed to raise some money.

[Lets B Avenue]

It was a charity game wasn't it? Heard on the radio that Cape Verde had some disaster recently and needed to raise some money.

 

Still a full international. Cape Verdi are ranked 38 in the world, above Scotland.

[david in sweden]

Learn something new everyday, guess Jose never made the match squad last night then which can't be a bad thing looking at the result!

 

Yes . It's one thing to be sad because you miss a game, but with a result like that one (0-2)....you can be pretty thankful....even if it was a friendly.

[Rasiak-9-]

It was a charity game wasn't it? Heard on the radio that Cape Verde had some disaster recently and needed to raise some money.

 

Yeah it was apparently nowhere near as surprising as it should have been; pretty much literally a 3rd XI for Portugal.

 

guess Jose never made the match squad last night then which can't be a bad thing looking at the result!

 

Definitely. Considering he was called up for Portugal's important match against Serbia and rested for a meaningless friendly (in which the fringe players clearly failed to perform) I think this little international break has done him plenty of good for getting his crack at at least one major international tournament in 2016 (and if he's lucky, maybe the WC 2018 as well).