Cafú (soccer player, 1977)

Cafu
Cafú (2010)
Personnel
Surname	Arlindo Gomez Semedo
birthday	17th November 1977
place of birth	Lisbon ,  Portugal
size	176 cm
position	Center Forward
Juniors
Years	station
	Amora FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1997-1999	Amora FC
1999-2002	Belenenses Lisbon	60 0(8)
2002-2005	Boavista Porto	93 0(9)
2006	Sports fans victories	13 0(5)
2006-2007	Sc freiburg	23 0(1)
2008-2009	Omonia Nicosia
2009-2011	Anorthosis Famagusta	61 (26)
2011–2012	AEL Limassol	24 0(4)
2012-2013	Alki Larnaka	25 0(4)
2013-2014	Académico de Viseu FC	35 (15)
2014-2015	CD Feirense	42 0(7)
2015-2016	SC Freamunde	28 0(2)
2016–	FC Felgueiras
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2004-2007	Cape Verde	14 (5)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2015/16

Arlindo Gomez Semedo called Cafú (born November 17, 1977 in Lisbon ) is a Cape Verdean football player with a Portuguese passport.

Club career

Cafú started his career with the Portuguese amateur club CF Amora . In 1999 he moved to Belenenses Lisbon , for whom he played until 2002. Then he switched to league competitor Boavista Porto , with whom he stayed until the winter break of the 2005/2006 season. In January 2006 he moved to the 2nd Bundesliga to Sportfreunde Siegen , but could not prevent their relegation at the end of the season.

For the 2006/2007 season, Cafú moved to SC Freiburg on a free transfer and was there until the 2007/08 winter break, mostly as a substitute player, on 23 appearances and only one goal. He then moved to the Cypriot club Omonia Nicosia in late January 2008 .

National team

Cafú had initially made hopes of a call to the Portuguese national team. When he started qualifying for the 2006 World Cup , he made his debut in the Cape Verdean national team at the age of 26 . So far he has completed 14 international matches and scored 3 goals (as of May 2009) .

Web links

• Cafú in the database of weltfussball.de
• Cafú in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Article on fifaworldcup.com