Luís Filipe Andrade de Oliveira (born 30 September 1973), known as Andrade, is a Portuguese retired professional

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, currently

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of Brazilian club Flamengo (women). A gritty player with few skills, he operated mainly as a

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but could also play as a defender.

Playing career

Andrade was born in

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

. After playing his youth football at

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal, founded Sporting Club de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP, often known abroad as Sporting Lisbon , is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Lisbon. It is best known for the professional foot ...

, he went on to represent

G.D. Estoril Praia Grupo Desportivo Estoril Praia (), commonly known as Estoril, is a Portuguese sports club from Estoril, Cascais, Lisbon. Founded on 17 May 1939, its football team currently plays in Primeira Liga and hold home games at the Estádio António Coimb ...

, C.F. Estrela da Amadora,

C.F. Os Belenenses Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses, commonly known as Os Belenenses (), is a Portuguese sports club best known for its football team. Founded in 1919, it is one of the oldest Portuguese sports clubs. It is based in the 25,000-seat Estádio do Rest ...

S.L. Benfica Sport Lisboa e Benfica (), commonly known as Benfica, is a professional association football, football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football league system, Portuguese footba ...

(five years, with one season loaned to

S.C. Braga Sporting Clube de Braga () (), commonly known as Sporting de Braga or just Braga, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Braga. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese f ...

), Académica de Coimbra,

C.D. Pinhalnovense Clube Desportivo Pinhalnovense is a Portugal, Portuguese Association football, football club based in the town of Pinhal Novo, Palmela, Setúbal District. Founded in 1948, it currently plays in AF Setúbal 2ª Divisão, holding home games at ''Ca ...

C.D. Olivais e Moscavide Clube Desportivo dos Olivais e Moscavide is a centenary club located in the eastern area of Lisbon that distinguishes itself in practice in different levels of football, basketball, American Football and Table Football, in addition to developing ...

and Odivelas FC. Andrade also had abroad spells with

CD Tenerife Club Deportivo Tenerife, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. Founded in 1912, the club plays in the Segunda División, holding home matches at the Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez Lóp ...

(Spanish

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) and

AEP Paphos FC AEP Paphos ( el, Αθλητική Ένωση Πάφος, ''Athlitiki Enosi Pafos''; "Athletic Union Paphos") was a Cypriot football club based in Paphos. The club was formed in 2000 after the merger of the two clubs of Paphos, APOP and Evagoras. A ...

(

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, a few months), and finished his 21-year senior career in the regional championships in 2013, with

GS Loures Grupo Sportivo de Loures is a Portuguese football club located in Loures, Portugal. History Loures was founded on 13 August 1913 by local footballers who used to play in a plot of land called ''Casaréus'' in Loures. Their first ever game was a ...

and Odivelas again. He amassed

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totals of 193 games and one goal over 12 seasons, and was a member of the Portugal national side that competed at the

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, helping them to reach the fourth place.

Coaching career

Benfica

Andrade started working as a coach in 2010, going on to be in charge of several sides in the

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. On 2 July 2019, he was named manager of Benfica women's team. On 26 December 2020, Andrade left his position after only three losses during his spell, two of those being in the

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of the

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against

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Flamengo

On 8 December 2021, Andrade signed with Brazil's

Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (women) Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, commonly known as Flamengo, is a Professional sports, professional women's association football club based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1995, the team is affiliated with Federação de Futebol do Estado do ...

to become the first foreign head coach in the club's history.

Honours

Manager

Benfica *

Supertaça de Portugal Feminina The Supertaça de Portugal Feminina ( en, Portuguese Women's Super Cup) is an annual Portuguese football match played since 2015 between the winners of the Portuguese league, Campeonato Nacional Feminino, and the holders of the Portuguese Cup, Ta ...

: 2019

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrade, Luis 1973 births Living people Portuguese men's footballers Footballers from Lisbon Men's association football midfielders Men's association football utility players Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players G.D. Estoril Praia players C.F. Estrela da Amadora players C.F. Os Belenenses players S.L. Benfica footballers S.C. Braga players S.L. Benfica B players Académica de Coimbra (football) players C.D. Pinhalnovense players C.D. Olivais e Moscavide players Odivelas F.C. players GS Loures players Segunda División players CD Tenerife players Cypriot First Division players AEP Paphos FC players Portugal men's youth international footballers Portugal men's under-21 international footballers Olympic footballers for Portugal Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Portuguese football managers S.L. Benfica (women) managers Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (women) managers Portuguese expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Brazil Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Brazil