Adelaide United has signed its final player for the A-League season with Portuguese forward Fabio Ferreira joining the Reds on a one-year deal.
The 23-year-old was part of Chelsea's youth program before his career stagnated in the Portuguese second division.
He has been trialing for several weeks with the club after originally moving to New South Wales to get his career back on track.
"Fabio has got a really good pedigree - you don't get signed to Chelsea for four years by Jose Mourinho unless you've got something about you," Adelaide coach John Kosmina said in a statement.
"He offers us a real point of difference in that he's a natural wide player and we don't have a lot of natural width, so someone who can play as a natural winger and is a good dribbler with pace, they're hard to find these days."
Ferreira fills Adelaide's quota of foreign players.
"I came to Sydney to try and get my career on track again at a high level and now I've got my chance at Adelaide, I'll try to do my best," he said.
Tags: a-league, soccer, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, australia First posted August 27, 2012 16:56:54