Evandro Brandão
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Evandro Elmer de Carvalho Brandão | ||
| Date of birth | 7 May 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Luanda, Angola | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
|
Current team
|
Fafe | ||
| Number | 47 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| ?–2003 | Blackburn Rovers | ||
| 2003–2006 | Walsall | ||
| 2006–2009 | Manchester United | ||
| 2009 | Braga | ||
| 2009–2010 | Benfica | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010–2011 | Benfica | 0 | (0) |
| 2010 | → Fátima (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2011 | → Gondomar (loan) | 12 | (10) |
| 2011–2013 | Videoton | 14 | (1) |
| 2012–2013 | → Olhanense (loan) | 18 | (1) |
| 2013–2014 | Tondela | 17 | (4) |
| 2014–2015 | Libolo | 20 | (2) |
| 2015 | Kabuscorp | 8 | (1) |
| 2016 | Benfica Castelo Branco | 11 | (1) |
| 2016– | Fafe | 36 | (11) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2006–2008 | Portugal U17 | 8 | (0) |
| 2009 | Portugal U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 2010 | Portugal U19 | 6 | (0) |
| 2014– | Angola | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 May 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13 August 2014 |
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Evandro Elmer de Carvalho Brandão (born 7 May 1991) is an Angolan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Portuguese club AD Fafe.
Brandão was born in Luanda, Angola, but spent the first years of his life in Portugal before moving to England at the age of 9. He began his football career at Blackburn Rovers, before joining Walsall in 2003.
After three years with Walsall, Brandão signed for Manchester United on 21 October 2006, after impressing assistant manager Carlos Queiroz while on trial with United at the 2006 Under-17 Nike Cup. He had to wait five months to make his debut for the under-18s, but played in four of their last five games as the side finished fourth in the 2006–07 Premier Academy League, before being offered a trainee contract in July 2007.
The following season, Brandão scored four goals in 18 appearances for the under-18 team, adding four in 15 appearances the year after – he also made his debut for the reserves in 2008–09, coming on as a 69th-minute substitute for Magnus Wolff Eikrem in a Manchester Senior Cup game away to Bury; however, he was unable to make any more of an impression at the club, and was released on the expiry of his contract in June 2009.
Brandão signed with Braga in the summer of 2009 but, just five months later, the deal was usurped by Benfica, who signed him on a two-and-a-half-year contract.
After spending a year in the Benfica academy, Brandão went out on loan twice in 2010–11, first to Segunda Liga club Fátima and then to Gondomar in the third division, for whom he netted 10 goals in 12 games.
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