4/8/3013: Hapoel Ra'anana sign Brazilian striker Eudis

Eudis (wiki)

Hapoel Ra'anana  have signed Brazilian striker Eudi Silva de Sousa. The 30-year-old whose nickname is Eudis has played his whole professional career until now at clubs in Switzerland with his last club being Servette, where he played for the last 5 seasons. Eudis was also part of the F.C Zurich squad of 06/07 that won the Swiss League. Other Swiss clubs that he played at include Young Boys, Lausanne Sport and Yverdon Sport. The signing of Eudis came about after the Ra'anana backroom staff including manager Menachem Koretski watched DVDs of him playing, which was followed up by the recipient of positive feedback from people in Swizerland about the player.

Nikola Mitrovic alongside Jordi Cruyff after signing (maccabi t.a)

Maccabi Tel Aviv are playing the second leg of their UEFA Champions League 3rd qualifying round tie with FC Basel of Switzerland which they are losing 1-0 on Tuesday but they nevertheless are still making changes to their squad 2 days before the big game. Today Maccabi signed Serbian defensive midfielder Nikola Mitrovic on a 1 year deal. After the signing was completed Maccabi's general manager Jordi Cruyff said: " We are happy to add to our squad a versatile player such as Nikola who will make it a great competition for players to try to make it into the match-day team and the starting lineup". The 26-year-old who is known as the "Serbian Gatusso" played last season at Hungarian side Videoton. Mitrovic was part of the FK Patizan squad that took the Serbian double back in the 07/08 season and also has 1 cap for Serbia. Last season he scored 6 league goals in 26 games which is very good from a defensive position.


Israeli midfielder Bibras Natcho was included in the starting lineup and played 90 minutes as his team Rubin Kazan drew 0-0 with CSKA Mosow today in the Russian Premier League. Natcho has now started in all 4 of Kazan's league fixtures so far this season. Kazan now lie in 5th place in the league but remain undefeated as they have won 1 and drew 3 of the 4 games they have played thus far.