Italian Carbone signs for Sydney guest stint

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Italian striker Benito Carbone will start a four-week guest stint with Australian A-League champions Sydney FC next week, the club said.

Carbone, who spent 10 seasons in the English Premier League with Sheffield Wednesday and Aston Villa, and with Inter Milan in Italy’s Serie A, will make his debut against Adelaide United on Monday.

The 35-year-old, who played with Vicenza in Serie B last season, had been training with Sydney FC for two weeks before the contract was finalised, a club spokesman said.

Carbone said that he would like to stay with the Sydney club through the end of the A-League season in February.

“I am here to play and I would like to play more but we will see after four weeks. We will see what the club wants and we will see what I want,” he said in a statement on Thursday.

His arrival comes after Trinidad and Tobago skipper and former Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke left Sydney FC last month to sign with Sunderland in England’s second-tier league.

Club coach and former English international defender Terry Butcher said the presence of Carbone had given the club’s squad a lift going into the match with Adelaide.

“Having him around the place has been great, but now he has signed and will play, then it has given the players a further lift,” Butcher said.

“He is a great player who will excite the fans because he tries things on the field, but he also lifts those around him.

“He brings others into the game and makes them better players but he is also a happy face, and a very experienced face, to have around the change room. He has given us another dimension.”

Carbone’s guest stint expires after the home match with competition leaders Melbourne Victory on October 21.

He is Sydney FC’s second guest player following the four-match appearance of former Japanese international Kazuyoshi Miura last season.

Source:Soccer News

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