{"id":30713,"date":"2015-01-17T09:12:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T14:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=30713"},"modified":"2015-01-17T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T19:00:05","slug":"source-sporting-cp-open-to-heldon-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=30713","title":{"rendered":"Source: Sporting CP Open to H\u00e9ldon Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30750\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SportingCP1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30750\" data-attachment-id=\"30750\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=30750\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SportingCP1.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,415\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SportingCP\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Sporting CP&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SportingCP1.png?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SportingCP1.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30750\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SportingCP1.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Photo credit: Sporting CP\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SportingCP1.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SportingCP1.png?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Sporting CP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Members of the Revolution front office will fly to Lisbon next week to meet with\u00a0Sporting\u00a0CP officials\u00a0to further\u00a0their partnership, and\u00a0both are open to discussing a move for\u00a0<em>Le\u00f5es<\/em> winger\u00a0<span dir=\"auto\">H\u00e9ldon<\/span> Ramos,\u00a0according to a source.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Revolution\u00a0initially learned that <span dir=\"auto\">H\u00e9ldon could be available for a move to New England earlier this week. The 26-year-old midfielder\u00a0is among other Sporting CP targets &#8211; whose identities\u00a0were not\u00a0disclosed &#8211; that the Revolution are currently eyeing ahead of the 2015 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Lisbon-based agent Paulo Teixeira reported that Cape Verdean International was on the Revolution&#8217;s radar.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>New England Revolution, parceiro MLS do <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sporting_CP\">@Sporting_CP<\/a>, vem a Avalade breve. De olho em Heldon, um produto para a comunidade criola de Boston<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paulo Teixeira (@epteixeira) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/epteixeira\/status\/556058533184421888\">January 16, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>New England Soccer Today<\/em> has learned that H\u00e9ldon would be &#8220;delighted&#8221; to make a move to New England given the region&#8217;s dense Cape Verdean community, as well as the opportunity for additional playing time. To date, the winger has only seen action in two Portuguese Liga matches,\u00a0with his minutes cut short due to\u00a0Nani&#8217;s regular inclusion in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting CP acquired\u00a0H\u00e9ldon last January for 1.5 million Euros following a successful four-year stint with Portuguese Liga side Mar\u00edtimo, where he scored 15 goals in 82 games between 2010 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>At the international level, H\u00e9ldon&#8217;s star has skyrocketed. In 32 caps, he&#8217;s scored 11 goals, and steered Cape Verde to an improbable run to its first African Nations Cup appearance\u00a0in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>H\u00e9ldon is currently in camp with Cape Verde, who are preparing for the upcoming\u00a0Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Equatorial Guinea. The Blue Sharks&#8217; first match is set for Sunday when they face Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>The Sporting CP midfielder is not the first Cape Verdean International targeted by the Revolution. In 2011, the club attempted to sign former Olhanense forward Dady, who ultimately turned down the offer to play in New England.<\/p>\n<p>The Revolution kick off their preseason camp on Thursday at Gillette Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Revs front office will fly to Lisbon next week to discuss its partnership with Sporting CP. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[891,916,49,1274,915,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SportingCP.png?fit=600%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30752,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30713\/revisions\/30752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}