German Bundesliga side Werder Bremen have announced the signing of Hungarian youngster Marko Futacs from French side AS Nancy Lorraine.
The 18 year old is a striker, and has been signed by Werder on a two and a half year contract ( 30.6.2011)
Bremen general manager Klaus Allofs said on the club’s official website that they had been tracking Futacs’ progress for quite a while and hoped that the youngster could develop well at Bremen.
Futacs had never played a single top flight French League game for Nancy before the transfer.
Futacs’ photo can be seen here–
Edit- Marko Futacs has made his debut for Werder Bremen.
He started for Werder Bremen U-23 against Brinkumer SV in a 3.Liga game on February 9, 2009.
Futacs scored the first goal of the game in the fifth minute, heading home a corner from Kevin Artmann. He also created the fourth goal for Artmann. Werder won the game 6-0.
He was replaced by Stefan Ronneburg at the beginning of the second half.