Benfica starlet joins rival club on a free: Time to face reality | OneFootball

Filipe Cruz has ended his association with Benfica and will join Felgueiras for the 2025/26 season. The player, who played for the Eagles' B team - which recently slipped up again - will remain in the Liga Meu Super and strengthens a competitor of the red team in the second tier of Portuguese football.

Filipe Cruz, a 23-year-old winger, completed all his training at Benfica, accumulating more than a decade at the Clube da Luz. One of the highlights while serving the Eagles was competing in the final of the UEFA Youth League in 2020, a very important match in the history of the red team's youth divisions.

Benfica left a farewell note through its official channels for Filipe Cruz, thanking him for his "example of commitment and dedication" as a player who was part of the red B team for the last five seasons, and who now sees his journey at Luz come to an end.

The player, in turn, also took to his social media to leave a farewell message to the red emblem: "Today I close my cycle at Benfica. It was not at all the outcome I dreamed of for many years, but it is time to face reality and move on."

"It was 15 years of Benfica, much of who I am today as a person and as a player I owe to Benfica. I was very happy with the eagle on my chest, always giving my all for the club of my heart with great pride," said Filipe Cruz, highlighting the decade and a half he spent at the Clube da Luz.

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