Hai Phong Club recruits foreign soldiers to replace Lucao

Hai Phong Club recruits foreign soldiers to replace Lucao

Hai Phong Club is said to have just completed the contract with Luiz Antonio, the best foreigner of Thanh Hoa Club in the 2024/25 season. This is an important addition of the port team after breaking out the main striker Lucao.

Luiz Antonio had an impressive season in Thanh Hoa shirt with 4 goals and 5 assists, becoming the leading tectonic player and the second good striker of the Thanh team. The bringing Luiz Antonio to Lach Tray yard is considered a timely and wise step of Hai Phong, in the context that they have lost a series of pillars.

Luiz Antonio was born in 1991, matured from the prestigious training of Flamengo Club. He has 6 years of playing for Flamengo first team (2011–2017) in the Brazilian Serie A. Notably, in the period of 2011/12, Antonio had the opportunity to stand side by side with Ronaldinho, one of the biggest symbols of modern Brazilian football.

Luiz Antonio broke up with Thanh Hoa to join the Hai Phong Club

In addition to Flamengo, Luiz Antonio also plays a number of other famous teams in Brazil such as Sport Recife, Bahia and Chapecoense. After that, he had many years of playing in the Middle East for Al-Shabab clubs (Saudi Arabia, Baniyas and Ajman (UAE). The 2022/23 season, Luiz switched to the Lamphun Warriors Club in Thai League.

Earlier, the team of coach Chu Dinh Nghiem said goodbye to Lucao, the V.League scorer 2024/25 with 14 goals, who had just switched to Viettel's coat. In addition, the Hai Phong Club had previously said goodbye to the versatile defender Dang Van until the player joined the Nam Dinh Club.

Meanwhile, Thanh Hoa Club is facing the “bleeding” forces after the last season. In addition to Luiz Antonio, they soon broke up with A Mit, who arrived at Nam Dinh wharf, and the pair of center -backs of Thanh Long and Gustavo Santos.

In the opposite direction, the team of Thanh is negotiating to keep the remaining two foreign soldiers Ribamar and Rimario to keep the squad stabilizing for the 2025/26 season.