André Caetano Gonçalves (born 23 January 1992) is a

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- Portuguese professional

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currently playing for FC Linth 04.

Club career

Gonçalves began his playing career with lower league clubs FC Glarus and

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before moving on to

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club

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in 2006. After spending time with the club's youth teams, from late 2009 he started playing regularly with the reserve team. Gonçalves then went on loan to

Swiss Challenge League The Challenge League (known as the Dieci Challenge League for sponsorship reasons) is the second-highest tier of the Swiss football league system and lower of two professional leagues in the country. Ten teams play in the Challenge League; the wi ...

club

FC Aarau FC Aarau is a Swiss professional football club based in Aarau. Founded in 1902, the club competes in the Swiss Challenge League, the second tier of Swiss football after being relegated from the Swiss Super League. History FC Aarau was form ...

for both the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons in order to gain more playing experience. He returned to Zürich for the 2012–13 season. In May 2013 it was announced that he joined second tier side

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. Ahead of the 2019/20 season, Gonçalves joined FC Linth 04.

International career

Gonçalves is a Switzerland youth international. In 2009, he was part of the Swiss under-17 team that won the

2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup The 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup was the thirteenth tournament of the FIFA U-17 World Cup held in Nigeria from 24 October to 15 November 2009. Switzerland national under-17 football team, Switzerland won the tournament, beating the host team and holde ...

beating host nation

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1—0 in the final. Gonçalves featured in all 7 matches at the tournament and scored in the team's round of 16 win against

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Honours

FIFA U-17 World Cup The FIFA U-17 World Cup, founded as the FIFA U-16 World Championship, later changed to U-17 in 1991 and to its current name in 2007, is the annual world championship of association football for male players under the age of 17 organized by ''Fé ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goncalves, Andre 1992 births Living people People from Interlaken-Oberhasli District Swiss people of Portuguese descent Sportspeople of Portuguese descent Swiss men's footballers Switzerland men's youth international footballers Men's association football defenders FC Zürich players FC Aarau players FC Schaffhausen players Swiss Super League players Swiss Challenge League players Footballers from the canton of Bern 21st-century Swiss sportsmen