{"id":18159,"date":"2026-02-02T21:22:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18159"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:22:27","slug":"nilson-angulo-sunderland-sign-ecuador-winger-from-anderlecht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18159","title":{"rendered":"Nilson Angulo: Sunderland sign Ecuador winger from Anderlecht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/sunderland\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sunderland<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> have signed Ecuador winger Nilson Angulo from Anderlecht in a deal worth \u00a317.5m.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old has penned a four-and-a-half-year contract on Wearside, with the option of a further year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Nilson is an incredibly exciting prospect, and we are delighted he&#8217;s chosen to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/sunderland\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Sunderland<\/a>,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/sunderland\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Sunderland<\/a> sporting director Kristjaan Speakman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A quick and creative wide player, he excels in all the core actions required to impact the final third, and he arrives ambitious to make an impression. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s young but has already had many interesting experiences as a senior player domestically, on the European stage, and internationally with Ecuador. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are delighted to have completed this signing and look forward to welcoming Nilson to Wearside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Angulo only signed a contract extension with Anderlecht in September 2025, after joining in 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He leaves Belgium after three and a half years with 15 goal contributions this season across 30 games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made his senior international debut in October 2021 during a friendly against Mexico. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4gw772jvy4o\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">winger Simon Adingra<\/a> has joined AS Monaco on loan with a view to a permanent move. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce8exr0n6y0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunderland have signed Ecuador&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}