Evandro Brandão

This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is de Carvalho and the second or paternal family name is Brandão.

Evandro Brandão

Personal information
Full name	Evandro Elmer de Carvalho Brandão
Date of birth	(1991-05-07) 7 May 1991
Place of birth	Luanda, Angola
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Libolo
Youth career
?–2003	Blackburn Rovers
2003–2006	Walsall
2006–2009	Manchester United
2009	Braga
2009–2010	Benfica
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2010–2011	Benfica	0	(0)
2010	→ Fátima (loan)	3	(0)
2011	→ Gondomar (loan)	12	(10)
2011–2013	Videoton	14	(1)
2012–2013	→ Olhanense (loan)	18	(1)
2013–2014	Tondela	17	(4)
2014–	Libolo
International career
2006–2008	Portugal U17	8	(0)
2009	Portugal U18	2	(0)
2010	Portugal U19	6	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:00, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Evandro Elmer de Carvalho Brandão (born 7 May 1991) is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a striker for C.R.D. Libolo.

Career

England

Brandão was born in Luanda, Angola, but spent the first years of his life in Portugal before moving to England at the age of nine. He began his football career at Blackburn Rovers before joining Walsall in 2003.

After three years with Walsall, Brandão signed for Manchester United on 21 October 2006, after impressing assistant manager Carlos Queiroz 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 Premier Academy League, before being offered a trainee contract in July 2007.

The following season, Brandão scored four goals in 18 appearances for the Under-18s, adding four in 15 appearances the year after – he also made his debut for the reserve team in 2008–09, coming on as a 69th-minute substitute for Magnus Wolff Eikrem 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 Braga 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, Brandão went out on loan twice in 2010–11, first to second division club Fátima and then to Gondomar in the third level, for whom he netted 10 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 Paulo Sousa. He scored his first and only goal for the side against Pécs.

External links

• Evandro Brandão at footballzz.co.uk
• Evandro Brandão profile at ForaDeJogo
• Videoton official profile (Hungarian)