Orlando City SC has been in the market for a right back after Scott Sutter’s departure and it got what it was looking for as the club is on the verge of signing 23-year-old Brazilian Ruan Teixeira, The Mane Land has learned. The defender was brought to Major League Soccer on a one-year loan deal with the Lions holding an option to make the move permanent at the end of it.
Ruan, whose transfer rights belong to Rio de Janeiro side Barra da Tijuca FC, has been a journeyman in his professional career, having played for as many as four different clubs in Brazil since 2016, always on loan contracts.