Last update 21 April, 2024 by Alberto Llopis
Remember the Fish?, That Portuguese midfielder that Sevilla signed in 1995 and that he had a reasonable resemblance to the villain of the “Last Boy Scout”? In 1995, in the hot summer of that year, right at the halfway point of the 90's, Sevilla reached, a Portuguese player who had stood out as Golden Ball in the Sub World Cup 20 of 1991 as the best player of the tournament. A championship that was won by Portugal. A team they called the” Golden Generation”, although then they failed to win anything. This team was formed among others by Luis Figo or Rui Costa.
Peixe's signing for Sevilla
Emilio Manuel Delgado Peixe, Portuguese despite its South American soap opera name. Born in 1973, this player arrived from Sporting Lisbon where he highlighted. With a more than reasonable resemblance to the villain of the classic Bruce Willis; “He last Boy Scout”, Peixe appeared in the season Sevilla 95/96 to be the compass to guide the boat sevillista. Besides, reference had to coach Sevilla, Toni was the Portuguese, his former coach at Sporting.
seemed so, Peixe's adventure would be a success but started badly. Upon reaching the set hispalense, an administrative problems down to the second B Seville with Celta Vigo, in the famous case that ended with the league of 22 equipment. After the sevillista set was maintained in First Division, was injured, what he did debut in the third round of the League that year.
Peixe's fiasco as a Sevilla player
He played only five games, from the third to the eighth day, which also they expelled twice in those five games. Has an urban legend , that his girlfriend, I did not want to leave Lisbon and took advantage of the rest of expulsions to go see it.
To make matters worse, on the eighth day, They dismissed his protector, the Portuguese coach Toni, so Peixe ended that same day passing through Sevilla with expulsion to finish the job. no longer would slip into the elastic of the Spanish team and return to Portugal, in an operation benefiting Sevilla, because despite all won 50 million pesetas for this signing crashed. football stuff.
After, he developed his career for Portugal, where he played for several teams and ended up hanging the boots in the 2004. Portuguese Federation signed him to hand over its expertise as coach of the Under 16. Although already stripped of his nineties hair due to alopecia. Another player that went unnoticed by many Spanish football.