Evandro Elmer de Carvalho Brandão (born 7 May 1991) is an Angolan professional

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who plays for Portuguese club Alverca as a striker.

Club career

England

Brandão was born in

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, but spent the first years of his life in

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before moving to England at the age of 9. He began his football career at

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, before joining

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in 2003. After three years with Walsall, Brandão signed for

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on 21 October 2006, after impressing assistant manager

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while on trial with United at the 2006 Under-17 Nike Cup. He had to wait five months to make his debut for the under-18s, but played in four of their last five games as the side finished fourth in the 2006–07

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, before being offered a trainee contract in July 2007. The following season, Brandão scored four goals in 18 appearances for the under-18 team, adding four in 15 appearances the year after. He also made his debut for the reserves in 2008–09, coming on as a 69th-minute substitute for

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in a Manchester Senior Cup game away to Bury. However, he was unable to make any more of an impression at the club, and was released on the expiry of his contract in June 2009.

Portugal

Brandão signed with

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in the summer of 2009 but, just five months later, the deal was usurped by Benfica, who signed him on a two-and-a-half-year contract. After spending a year in the Benfica academy, he went out on loan twice in 2010–11, first to Fátima ( Segunda Liga) and then to Gondomar ( third division), for whom he netted ten goals in 12 games.

Hungary

After failing to break into the Benfica first team, Brandão moved to Hungarian club Videoton in July 2011, coached by his former Portugal under-16 manager

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. He scored his first and only

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goal for the side on 20 August, contributing to a 4–1 home win against

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Later years

In the summer of 2012, Brandão signed with

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in the Portuguese top flight, on loan. He scored his first goal in the competition on 15 December to help to a 2–2 home draw with

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, as his team went on to finish as the first above the relegation zone. Subsequently, Brandão represented in quick succession

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, Kabuscorp – both from the Angolan

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– and

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, for a total of only eight goals. On 12 July 2016, he agreed to a deal at

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from the Portuguese second tier. Brandão scored his first

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at the professional level on 15 January 2017, in a 4–1 victory over Braga B at the '' Parque Municipal dos Desportos de Fafe''. In June, following

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, he signed for

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also of the second division. On 10 September 2019, Brandão joined Israeli

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club

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. He returned to Portugal and its division two in the 2021 January

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, on a one-and-a-half-year contract at Vilafranquense.

International career

At youth level, Brandão earned 24

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for

. He switched allegiance to

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as a senior, making his debut on 13 August 2014 by playing the last four minutes of a 0–0 friendly draw against

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International goals

(Angola score listed first, score column indicates score after each Brandão goal)

Honours

Videoton *

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: 2011–12 *

Szuperkupa The Hungarian Super Cup is an annual association football match between the League (Nemzeti Bajnokság I) champions and the Cup (Magyar Kupa) winners. Winners (*) due to violent incidents during the recent 1997–98 Magyar Kupa Final between ...

: 2011 Libolo *

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Maccabi Petah Tikva *

: 2019–20

References

External links

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Videoton official profile
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brandao, Evandro 1991 births Living people Portuguese sportspeople of Angolan descent Footballers from Luanda Portuguese footballers Angolan footballers Association football forwards Blackburn Rovers F.C. players Walsall F.C. players Manchester United F.C. players Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players S.L. Benfica footballers C.D. Fátima players Gondomar S.C. players S.C. Olhanense players C.D. Tondela players Sport Benfica e Castelo Branco players AD Fafe players Leixões S.C. players U.D. Vilafranquense players F.C. Alverca players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Fehérvár FC players Girabola players C.R.D. Libolo players Kabuscorp S.C.P. players Liga Leumit players Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. players Portugal youth international footballers Angola international footballers 2019 Africa Cup of Nations players Portuguese expatriate footballers Angolan expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in England Expatriate footballers in Hungary Expatriate footballers in Israel Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in England Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Israel Angolan expatriate sportspeople in England Angolan expatriate sportspeople in Hungary