Vieri who is playing in Italy with Fiorentina is heading to the A-league to be the long awaited marquee striker for Wellington Phoenix. It is a major coup for the New Zealand club who needed another striker for supurb striker Shane Smeltz who hit nine for the Phoenix in their first season in the A-league. Vieri's contract will be for 2 years and will have undisclosed amount but is expected to be around the same as Aloisi's Sydney contract. This is the second to last piece of the puzzle to the Phoenix puzzle after the signings of Australians Durante and Mckain who is an exellent recruit for them, New Zealand international Leo Bertos and LeiLei Gao the Chinese who played seven games for the ill-fated Knights. A right-back is expected to be announced next week it is to be believed that it is a player from the NSL.

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Antonio of Australia FourFourTwo Belief Factor: 2/10 - Absolutely huge coup for Pheonix if it were to come off, but it has all the hallmarks of Utter And Complete Bollocks to us. Phoenix over Sydney? From Serie A to A-League? We'd love to see him but we doubt very much it will happen.