Sandro (footballer, born 1989)
Sandro warming up for Tottenham Hotspur in 2010
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| Full name | Sandro Raniere Guimarães Cordeiro |
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| Date of birth | 15 March 1989 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Riachinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Defensive midfielder | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Antalyaspor | |||||||||||
| Number | 33 | |||||||||||
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| 2005–2007 | Internacional | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2007–2010 | Internacional | 68 | (4) | |||||||||
| 2010–2014 | Tottenham Hotspur | 81 | (3) | |||||||||
| 2014–2017 | Queens Park Rangers | 28 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2016 | → West Bromwich Albion (loan) | 12 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2017– | Antalyaspor | 0 | (0) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| 2009 | Brazil U20 | 8 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2012 | Brazil U23 | 7 | (2) | |||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Brazil | 17 | (1) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:40, 29 May 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 5 September 2015 |
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Sandro Raniere Guimarães Cordeiro (born 15 March 1989), or simply Sandro, is a Brazilian footballer, who plays for Antalyaspor.
Sandro is a product of Internacional's youth academy. He signed his first professional contract and began his senior career in 2007 as an 18-year-old.
Sandro was one of the main players of Inter's winning 2010 Copa Libertadores campaign. Sandro was already signed to Tottenham through most of the competition, but that did not affect his performance negatively: on the contrary, he said he "live[d] with great intensity, as each game could be the last". With this in mind, he worked hard to stay at Internacional as long as possible in order to help the team reach the finals. After winning South America's top trophy, he flew to England the following week.
In August 2009 Tottenham Hotspur were reported to have had a £14 million bid rejected for the player. However, on 20 October 2009, Spurs and Internacional agreed an affiliation of the two clubs, ensuring that Tottenham have first option on all academy players from the Brazilian outfit. Following this agreement, there were rumours of a near-concluded deal pending for the 2009–10 Premier League January transfer window. Six days later Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp confirmed he was interested in Sandro for a fee rumoured to be around £8 million.
On 10 March 2010, Internacional President Vitorio Piffero confirmed the transfer of the midfielder to Tottenham, after the Copa Libertadores. The transfer amount was speculated to be around €10 million, with only the contract yet to be signed.
Both Internacional and Tottenham reported on their respective websites that a deal had been agreed for Sandro for an undisclosed fee. Sandro joined Tottenham following the end of the Copa Libertadores, which finished on 18 August. Internacional's financial report stated that the fee was R$ 20,633,850, with about 25% re-distributed by Inter to third party owners.
Tottenham Hotspur confirmed that a deal for Sandro had been completed and that he would join up at the end of Internacional's Copa Libertadores campaign. Sandro said of the move to England that he thought Spurs were "a great fit for me" and that "a club that is growing every year makes it the ideal club for me". He made his Tottenham debut in a 4–1 home defeat against Arsenal in the third round of the League Cup on 21 September 2010.
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