Flu hits the loan Duckling Lucas and Cassio for Croatian club

Starting a promising international partnership, Fluminense and Croatian club Hajduk Split already entered into an agreement regarding the first players who will be part of the project of exchange of athletes between the two teams: Duckling midfielders Lucas and Cassio, both 20, were loaned by Tri for the team of Croatia for a year. Both still travel to Europe on Friday, 11.

Lucas Duckling, who had already passage by the Brazilian U-20, was on loan at Sporting in Portugal, where little was being tapped. So it fell to Fluminense come to terms with the Portuguese club to allow the release of the athlete for Hajduk Split. Already midfielder Cassio was in the under-20 team and the Tricolor had proposed to play the State by different teams of Brazil.

The executive manager of football Marcelo Teixeira stressed the importance of this first step in the partnership project between the teams:

"With the closing of this loan agreement Duckling and Cassio started on the right foot a partnership that will surely be very fruitful for both teams. We are sending to Croatia two young players, a lot of talent that will certainly help Hajduk in their sporting goals over the next. These athletes will be taking the name of a market for Fluminense playing a football the most beautiful in Europe. Our next step in this partnership project will be sending younger players as well as receive Croats young athletes to train at our Academy Training Xerém. Also we are scheduling for the year 2013 technical visits of professionals from both clubs. "

Besides the Croatian League, where the club Hajduk occupies second place, Lucas Duckling and Cassio will have the opportunity to compete in the finals of Croatia, competition in which the team is in the semifinals and its main competitor, Dinamo Zagreb is already eliminated. Next season, the two certainly have the opportunity to play major European competitions, taking into account the current placement team in major tournaments in the country.