Campira

Campira

Personal information
Full name	Samuel Luis Chapanga
Date of birth	(1982-04-09) April 9, 1982
Place of birth	Maputo, Mozambique
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Right defender
Team information
Current team	Maxaquene
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2003	Têxtil do Punguè
2004	Lokomotiv Moscow II	19	(0)
2005–2006	Dinamo Zagreb	0	(0)
2006	Costa do Sol
2007–2009	Maxaquene
2010	Liga Muçulmana
2011–	Maxaquene
International career‡
2003–	Mozambique	23	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 October 2011

Samuel Luis Chapanga, better known simply as Campira (born April 9, 1982 in Maputo) is a Mozambican international football defender playing for Maxaquene.

Career

Campira has become one of the regular players in the right side of the defence of the Mozambique national football team over the years, gaining a total of 13 caps by December 2009. At club level he has played most of his career in the historical Clube de Desportos do Maxaquene with short spells at Grupo Desportivo da Companhia Têxtil do Punguè (2003–2004) and another historic, Clube de Desportos da Costa do Sol (2006). He also had some unsuccessful experiencies abroad, where he failed to adapt, namely at Russian FC Lokomotiv Moscow (2004–2005) and Croatian NK Dinamo Zagreb (2005–2006).

External sources

• Campira at National-Football-Teams.com