Jovane Eduardo Borges Cabral (born 14 June 1998) is a Cape Verdean professional

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who plays as a winger for

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club

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and the Cape Verde national team.

Club career

Born in

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's youth academy at the age of 16 from

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. On 20 August 2016 he made his senior debut with the reserve side, coming on as a 61st-minute substitute in a 2–4 home loss against

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in the

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. His first goal in the competition came on 19 March 2017, netting through a

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in a 2–1 away victory over

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. Still that year, he helped the juniors win the national championship. Cabral was called by first-team manager

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for the 2017 pre-season, but eventually returned to the B team. He made his competitive debut for the former on 12 October, replacing

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for the final 12 minutes of the 4–2 victory at Oleiros in the third round of the

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. Cabral scored his first official goal for Sporting on 1 September 2018, his 88th-minute strike earning the hosts a 1–0

home win against Feirense. On 3 December, in what was new manager

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's first match in charge, he netted through a 20-meter

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to close the score in a 3–1 defeat of

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at the

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; the goal was later named as the best of the season at the annual awards ceremony. In June 2020, after the season resumed following the COVID-19 shutdown, Cabral scored four goals over three consecutive games. This concluded with two in a 3–1 win at Belenenses SAD on 26 June, when he was replaced injured at

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; he was named the league's Player of the Month. On 19 January 2021, after having replaced fellow youth graduate

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late into the second half, Cabral scored twice to help his team come from behind and beat

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2–1 in the semi-finals of the

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. One year later, he was loaned to Italian

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club

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with an option to buy. He made his debut for the latter on 17 February, playing ten minutes in the 2–1 away loss against Porto in the knockout play-offs of the

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. He totalled four games for the club from

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, scoring in a 3–3 home draw with

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on 21 May in the last fixture of the campaign. Cabral was supposed to join

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on loan in the January 2023

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, but the deal fell through due to bureaucratic reasons.

International career

Cabral won his first

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for

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on 28 March 2017, in a 2–0 friendly win over

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. However, in October 2018 he announced he was applying for Portuguese nationality and that he intended to represent its national team. On 23 March 2022, five years after his debut, Cabral scored his first goal, in the 2–0 friendly defeat of

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Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
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: 2018–19 *

: 2018–19,

, 2021–22 *

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Individual *Primeira Liga Goal of the Season: 2018–19

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cabral, Jovane 1998 births Living people People from Santa Catarina, Cape Verde Cape Verdean footballers Footballers from Santiago, Cape Verde Association football wingers Grémio Nhagar players Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Sporting CP B players Sporting CP footballers Serie A players S.S. Lazio players Cape Verde international footballers Cape Verdean expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Portugal Expatriate footballers in Italy Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Italy