Adrien Silva

Adrien Sebastien Perruchet da Silva ComM (French: [adʁijɛ̃ sebastjɛ̃ pɛʁyʃɛ da silva]; born 15 March 1989), known as Adrien Silva (Portuguese: [ˈaðɾiɐn ˈsiɫvɐ]), is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Italian club Sampdoria and the Portugal national team. A central midfielder, he is known for his dribbling and passing skills.

He began his career with Sporting, making his first-team debut at the age of 18. In ten years with the club he played 237 games and scored 39 goals, and won the 2008 and 2015 Taca de Portugal trophies. He had loan spells with Maccabi Haifa and Academica, where he won the Portuguese Cup again. He signed with Leicester City in 2018, then served two loan stints at Monaco.

Silva won 46 caps for Portugal at youth level, including 13 for the under-21 team. He made his senior debut in 2014 and played at Euro 2016, which Portugal won, and the 2018 World Cup.

Club Career

Early years

Silva was born in Angouleme, Poitou-Charentes, France, to a Portuguese father and a French mother. He began his football career at the age of 10 with FC Girondins de Bordeaux, but after one year there his father, who worked in aeronautics, returned to Portugal and the family settled in Arcos de Valdevez. Silva spent two seasons with local Associacao Recreativa e Cultural de Paco, who later began to host a tournament in his honour, the A.R.C.Paco–Adrien Silva Tournament, held every June.

Silva then spent six years in Sporting's academy, and won four national and three regional championships. At the age of 15 he was scouted by Chelsea, along with Portugal under-16 teammates Ricardo Fernandes and Fabio Ferreira, and the three players trained at the English club's facilities in January 2005. Sporting filed a complaint with FIFA that Chelsea had not followed the correct procedures, and Silva stayed with Sporting, although Fernandes and Ferreira did later move to the London club.

Sporting

In March 2007, Silva signed his first

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