Andreas Pereira
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Andreas Hugo Hoelgebaum Pereira | ||
| Date of birth | 1 January 1996 | ||
| Place of birth | Duffel, Belgium | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Granada (on loan from Manchester United) |
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| Number | 18 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Lommel United | |||
| 2005–2011 | PSV Eindhoven | ||
| 2011–2014 | Manchester United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014– | Manchester United | 5 | (0) |
| 2016– | → Granada (loan) | 31 | (4) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2010–2011 | Belgium U15 | 7 | (1) |
| 2011–2012 | Belgium U16 | 9 | (10) |
| 2012–2013 | Belgium U17 | 11 | (2) |
| 2014–2015 | Brazil U20 | 8 | (2) |
| 2016– | Brazil U23 | 1 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10:16, 22 April 2017 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:22, 26 August 2014 (UTC) |
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Andreas Hugo Hoelgebaum Pereira (born 1 January 1996) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish club Granada, on loan from Manchester United.
Born in Duffel, Belgium, he began his youth career with nearby Lommel United. At the age of nine, he joined Dutch club PSV Eindhoven, before signing for Manchester United in November 2011. Pereira made his first Premier League appearance in March 2015.
He has played international football for the youth teams of both the country of his birth, Belgium, and his father's homeland, Brazil.
The son of former Brazilian professional footballer Marcos Pereira, Andreas Pereira was born in Duffel, Belgium, while his father was a player there. He began his career with nearby Lommel United, one of his father's former clubs, before moving just across the Dutch border to PSV Eindhoven in 2005, when he was nine years old. In 2011, after impressing at the Manchester United Premier Cup, he became a target for several big English clubs, including Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, but a visit from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson in November 2011 convinced Pereira to sign for the Old Trafford club.
Due to regulations regarding international transfers, the move could not be completed until Pereira's 16th birthday on 1 January 2012, and further complications with international clearance meant that his Manchester United debut was delayed until April 2012. He made his debut for the under-18s in a league match away to Sheffield Wednesday on 25 April 2012, but heavy rain meant the match had to be abandoned as a goalless draw after only 35 minutes. He made two more appearances that season as the under-18s finished eighth out of 10 teams in their Premier Academy League group.
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