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Blackburn snap up Chilean player of the year Villanueva


Blackburn Blackburn, city (1991 pop. 109,564) and district, Lancashire, NW England. It was formerly a great cotton-weaving center, noted especially for calicoes. Textiles are still important; other industries produce engineering equipment, electronic components, beer, felt,  have moved to fill the gap left by David Bentley's departure by signing the Chile midfielder
For the Australian Rules position, see Midfielder (Australian Rules).


In association football, a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders (highlighted in blue on the diagram).
 Carlos Villanueva For the Chilean footballer, see .

Carlos Manuel Villanueva (born November 28, 1983 in Santiago, Dominican Republic) is a right-handed pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers Major League Baseball team.
. The Chilean player of the year has joined Rovers on an initial one-year loan deal from Audax Italiano with Rovers having the option to sign him permanently next summer.

If manager Paul Ince Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince (born 21 October 1967 in Ilford, London) is a football player who won numerous honours with Manchester United and became the first black player to captain the England team.  decides to keep Villanueva, the 22-year-old has already agreed terms on a three-year contract. "It is and exciting signing, everyone is talking about him," said Ince. "He's a talented kid, he's a skilfull player, I'm sure he'll excite (Excite.com, Irvington, NY, www.excite.com) One of the major search engines on the Web founded in 1995 and part of IAC Search & Media. Excite was acquired by Ask Jeeves, Inc. in 2004, which was acquired by IAC in 2005. See Web search engines.  the fans. Getting him here excites me and shows the kind of football I'm looking to play at Blackburn.

"We'll see how it goes. It is always hard when you come to a new country. I went to Italy and it took me a few months to settle down, so I don't want too much expectation on the lad. It will take him time to settle in, but we believe we have a decent player."
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