Esmaël Gonçalves
| Esmaël Gonçalves | ||
.jpg) Esmaël Gonçalves in 2019
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Esmaël Ruti Tavares Cruz da Silva Gonçalves | |
| birthday | June 25, 1991 | |
| place of birth | Bissau , Guinea-Bissau | |
| size | 184 cm | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2005-2008 | Boavista Porto | |
| 2008-2011 | OGC Nice | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2011–2012 | OGC Nice | 18 (2) |
| 2012-2015 | Rio Ave FC | 18 (1) |
| 2013 | → FC St. Mirren (loan) | 12 (3) |
| 2013-2014 | → APOEL Nicosia (loan) | 10 (3) |
| 2014 | → Veria FC (loan) | 15 (2) |
| 2015 | → Anorthosis Famagusta (loan) | 15 (9) |
| 2015 | al-Ettifaq | |
| 2015-2017 | Anorthosis Famagusta | 33 (9) |
| 2017-2018 | Heart of Midlothian | 35 (13) |
| 2018-2019 | Paxtakor Tashkent | 31 (16) |
| 2019 | Esteghlal Tehran | 1 (1) |
| 2019– | Matsumoto Yamaga FC | 0 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2007-2008 | Portugal U-17 | 3 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of February 1, 2020 |
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Esmaël Ruti Tavares Cruz da Silva Gonçalves (born June 25, 1991 in Bissau ) is a Portuguese football player . He holds both Portuguese and the nationality of Guinea-Bissau .
Career
Esmaël Gonçalves was born in June 1991 in Bissau , the capital of the African country Guinea-Bissau . At the age of three he came to Portugal with his family. He began his football career at the Boavista Porto youth academy . As a 19-year-old he moved to the youth division of OGC Nice from France. At the club he spent the next three years in the junior teams. On January 30, 2011 Gonçalves made his professional debut against Girondins Bordeaux . In August 2012 Gonçalves moved back to Portugal for Rio Ave FC . From there it was awarded a total of four times in the following three seasons, including FC St. Mirren , APOEL Nicosia , Veria FC and Anorthosis Famagusta . In Scotland, he won the Scottish League Cup with St. Mirren in the final against Heart of Midlothian in March 2013 . In the semifinals, Gonçalves had scored the opening goal against Celtic Glasgow in a 3-2 win, which was also his first in the Saints jersey . In 2013 he also won the Cypriot Supercup against Apollon Limassol during his loan to APOEL Nicosia . After returning to Rio Ave, his contract was not renewed. He then played for a short time with al-Ettifaq in the Saudi Professional League before joining Anorthosis Famagusta. In January 2017, Gonçalves joined Heart of Midlothian for a fee of £ 170,000. A year later, Gonçalves moved to Paxtakor Tashkent in Uzbekistan for a transfer fee of £ 350,000 .
successes
FC St. Mirren
APOEL Nicosia
- Cypriot Supercup : 2013
Web links
- Esmaël Gonçalves in the soccerway.com database
- Esmaël Gonçalves in the database of weltfussball.de
- Esmaël Gonçalves in the database of transfermarkt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hearts sign Esmael Goncalves, Alexandros Tziolis and Anastasios Avlonitis. BBC Sport, January 30, 2017, accessed January 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Isma Goncalves and Hearts benefit from sale to Pakhtakor Tashkent - Craig Levein. BBC Sport, January 29, 2018, accessed January 29, 2018 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gonçalves, Esmaël |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tavares Cruz da Silva Gonçalves, Esmaël Ruti (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bissau , Guinea-Bissau |