Jordi Martins Almeida (born 3 September 1993), known simply as Jordi, is a Brazilian

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who plays as a

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for Novorizontino.

Club career

Born in

Volta Redonda Volta Redonda () is the name of a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro state of Brazil with an area of 182.81 km2, located from 350m to 707m above the sea level (22°31'23" S, 44°06'15" W) an ...

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

, Jordi joined

Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (; ; c. 1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India by way of Cape of Good Hope (1497–1499) was the first to link E ...

's youth setup in 2009, after starting out at

. On 10 September 2013, he signed a professional contract until 2016. Jordi was promoted to the main squad in 2014, and acted mainly as a backup to new signing

Martín Silva Martín Andrés Silva Leites (born 25 March 1983) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Paraguayan side Club Libertad. Club career Defensor Sporting Silva has played most of his professional career in Defensor Sp ...

. He made his professional debut on 9 September, starting in a 2–0 home win against Luverdense for the Série B championship. In his Série A debut on 3 June 2015, Jordi was

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with only 29 minutes; his team would eventually finish with a 0–3 home defeat to Ponte Preta.

Honours

;Vasco *

Campeonato Carioca The Campeonato Carioca (Carioca Championship), officially known as Campeonato Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (Port., Rio de Janeiro State Championship), was started in 1906 and is the annual football championship in the state of Rio de Janeiro, B ...

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 ...

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

* Taça Guanabara: 2019

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* 1993 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers Footballers from Volta Redonda Men's association football goalkeepers CR Vasco da Gama players Tractor S.C. players Centro Sportivo Alagoano players F.C. Paços de Ferreira players Grêmio Novorizontino players Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players Persian Gulf Pro League players Primeira Liga players Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Iran Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Iran {{Brazil-footy-bio-stub