Alexandre Domingos Cristóvão M'Futila, best known as Alexander Christovao (born 14 March 1993) is an Angolan

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who plays as a

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Club career

Born in

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, he started playing in the Netherlands with lower-league side

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. Then he played with

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and

SC Cambuur SC Cambuur, also known as Cambuur Leeuwarden, or simply Cambuur, () is a Dutch football club from the city of Leeuwarden formed on 19 June 1964. They currently play in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, after winning the 2020–21 Ee ...

in the

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between 2012 and 2014.Alexander Christovao profile
at Soccerway By then he already had debuted in the Angolan national team so he called the attention of the leading Angolan clubs. Angolan premier league side Recreativo do Libolo brought him for their 2015 campaign which ended-up successfully as Libolo became national champions.Alexander Christovao
at National-Football-Teams.com At the end of the season he left and signed with Porcelana playing with them in the

2016 Girabola The 2016 Girabola was the 38th season of top-tier football in Angola. The season ran from 19 February to 5 November 2016. The league comprised 16 teams, the bottom three of which were relegated to the 2016 Provincial championships. 1º de Agosto ...

. On 8 August 2016, he signed a 3-year contract with Serbian club

FK Javor Ivanjica Fk Javor Matis () is a professional football club based in Ivanjica, Serbia. They compete in the Serbian SuperLiga, the top tier of the national league system. History In 1912, a student named Milan Radojević brought the first football ball to ...

. He debuted for Javor in official matches, on 21 September 2016, in a

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game against Proleter which Javor won by 1–0. He entered the game as a substitute in 66 minute. In the SuperLiga he debuted on 15 October 2016, in an away game against Metalac. Scoring 2 goals in 21 appearances in both domestic competitions for the club, he left the club in summer 2017. He then joined in summer 2017 Polish side Zagłębie Sosnowiec helping them achieve promotion to Polish top-flight, and playing following season with them in the

2018–19 Ekstraklasa The 2018–19 Ekstraklasa was the 93rd season of the Polish Football Championship, the 85th season of the highest tier domestic division in the Polish football league system since its establishment in 1927 and the 11th season of the Ekstraklasa ...

. His fine performances during the first half of the season, called the attention of other clubs during the winter transfers window, and thus he got brought by the Romanian historical powerhouse

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, playing with them the second half of the

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season. Dinamo finished the season in a disappointing 9th place, and Alexander Christovão left and signed with Saudi Arabian side Al-Mujazzal. On 17 January 2020, Christovão signed for Keşla FK until the end of the 2019–20 season.

International career

Alexandre Cristóvão has been a regular member of the Angolan national team since his debut in 2014.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Angola's goal tally first.''

Honours

;Recreativo Libolo *

Girabola Girabola, or ''Campeonato Nacional de Futebol em Séniores Masculinos'', is the top division of Angolan football. It is organized by the Angolan Football Federation. The league winner and runner-up qualify for the CAF Champions League. Gira ...

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

References

External links

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Voetbal International profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Christovao, Alexander 1993 births Living people People from Cabinda Province People with acquired Dutch citizenship Angolan men's footballers Angola men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Be Quick 1887 players FC Groningen players SC Cambuur players C.R.D. Libolo players FK Javor Ivanjica players Zagłębie Sosnowiec players FC Dinamo București players Eredivisie players Girabola players Al-Mujazzal Club players Serbian SuperLiga players Ekstraklasa players I liga players Liga I players Saudi First Division League players Angolan expatriate men's footballers Angolan expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Angolan expatriate sportspeople in Serbia Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia Angolan expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Angolan expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia Shamakhi FK players Expatriate men's footballers in Azerbaijan