Éder (Portuguese footballer)

This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Macedo and the second or paternal family name is Lopes.
Éder

Éder playing with Braga in 2012
Personal information
Full nameÉderzito António Macedo Lopes
Date of birth22 December 1987
Place of birthBissau, Guinea-Bissau
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[1]
Playing positionForward
Club information
Current team
Braga
Number17
Youth career
1999–2006ADC Adémia
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2006Oliveira Hospital23(7)
2007–2008Tourizense42(11)
2008–2012Académica83(12)
2012–Braga56(22)
National team‡
2012–Portugal17(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 March 2015.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 31 March 2015

Éderzito António Macedo Lopes (born 22 December 1987), commonly known as Éder, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for S.C. Braga as a forward.

He started playing professionally in 2008 with Académica, and signed for Braga four years later.

A Portuguese international since 2012, Éder represented the country at the 2014 World Cup.

Club career

Early years / Académica

Born in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Éder moved to Portugal as a child, and started playing football with Associação Desportiva e Cultural da Adémia in the Coimbra District at the age of 11.[2] He made his senior debuts with F.C. Oliveira do Hospital and G.D. Tourizense, the latter in the third division and the farm team of Académica de Coimbra.[3]

Éder made his top level debut for Académica on 24 August 2008, in a 0–1 away loss against C.F. Estrela da Amadora.[4] He scored his first goal for the club at the end of the season, netting the Students equalizing goal in an eventual 3–1 victory over Associação Naval 1º de Maio.[5]

On 2 May 2010 Éder scored what looked like a winning goal against C.D. Nacional, but the visitors eventually drew it 3–3 in the 90th minute.[6] On 12 September of the following year, against the same opponent and also in Coimbra, he bagged a brace in a 4–0 routing,[7] finishing the season with five goals in 16 appearances; he also helped the club win its first Portuguese Cup since 1939 by defeating Sporting Clube de Portugal in the final,[8] but he only featured in the earlier rounds, as he was suspended by his employers for not reporting to training for several weeks, as interest in acquiring his services arose.[9][10][11]

Braga

In the 2012 summer, Éder signed with S.C. Braga for four years. He made his official debut for his new team on 2 September in a 0–2 loss at F.C. Paços de Ferreira[12] but scored twice late into that month as the Minho Province side defeated Rio Ave F.C. 4–1 at home,[13] contributing with one in a 4–4 home draw with S.C. Olhanense.[14]

On 30 November 2012, in the fifth round of the Taça de Portugal, Éder netted the winning goal as Braga defeated national giants F.C. Porto 2–1, booking a place in the quarter-finals.[15] On 6 January 2013, in a league match against Moreirense FC, he scored the game's only goal shortly after the restart;[16] on 23 February he netted in each half of the local derby against Vitória de Guimarães, in a 3–2 win at the Estádio Municipal de Braga,[17] but missed the rest of the campaign after suffering a ligament tear in early March.[18]

International career

Éder chose to represent Portugal internationally. After impressive club performances for Braga, he was first called up by the national team in August 2012 for a match against Luxembourg for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, but remained an unused substitute in the 2–1 away win on 7 September.[19] He made his debut four days later in the same competition, replacing Hélder Postiga in the dying minutes of a 3–0 home win over Azerbaijan.[20]

On 19 May 2014, Éder was named in the final 23-man squad for the tournament in Brazil.[21] He made his debut in the competition on 16 June, replacing injured Hugo Almeida in the first half of a 0–4 group stage loss to Germany.[22] In the second game, a 2–2 draw against the United States, he replaced another injured striker early on, this time Postiga.[23]

Honours

Académica
Braga

Statistics

Club

As of 19 June 2014[24]
Club Season League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Tourizense 2006–07 Second Division 7110—81
2007–08 Segunda Divisão 341010—3510
2008–09 Segunda Divisão 1010—20
Total 421130—4511
Académica 2008–09 Primeira Liga 24160—301
2009–10 Primeira Liga 22452—276
2010–11 Primeira Liga 21263—275
2011–12 Primeira Liga 16551—216
Total 8312226—10518
Braga 2012–13 Primeira Liga 1813736[lower-alpha 1]03116
2013–14 Primeira Liga 133211[lower-alpha 2]0164
Total 311694704720
Career total 1563934107019749
  1. ↑ Appearances in the UEFA Champions League
  2. ↑ Appearances in the UEFA Europa League

References

  1. ↑ "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil: List of players" (PDF). FIFA.com. 11 June 2014. p. 27. Retrieved 15 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "É Éderzito mas já rima com seleção" [His name is Éderzito but it rhymes with national team] (in Portuguese). Diário As Beiras. 14 October 2010. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "Gonçalo: "Há muito tempo que esperava"" [Gonçalo: "I have been waiting a long time for this"] (in Portuguese). Record. 8 January 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "Estrela Amadora vs. Académica 1–0". Soccerway. 24 August 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "Académica vs. Naval 1º de Maio 3–1". Soccerway. 16 May 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Académica vs. Nacional 3–3". Soccerway. 2 May 2010. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "Academica de Coimbra 4–0 CD Nacional de Madeira". ESPN FC. 12 September 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  8. ↑ "Académica shock Sporting to lift Portuguese Cup". PortuGOAL. 19 May 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  9. ↑ "Éder (Académica) tem acordo com o FC Porto" [Éder (Académica) has agreement with FC Porto] (in Portuguese). Relvado. 8 December 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  10. ↑ "Éder: "Não gostei da forma como as coisas foram conduzidas"" [Éder: "I did not like the way things were handled"] (in Portuguese). Record. 29 January 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  11. ↑ "Académica participa à PJ desaparecimento de Éder" [Académica reports Éder disappearance to police] (in Portuguese). Diário de Notícias. 29 January 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  12. ↑ "Paços de Ferreira vs. Sporting Braga 2–0". Soccerway. 2 September 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  13. ↑ "Braga 4–1 Rio Ave". ESPN FC. 23 September 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  14. ↑ "Braga 4–4 Olhanense". ESPN FC. 7 October 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  15. ↑ "Sporting Braga vs. Porto 2–1". Soccerway. 30 November 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  16. ↑ "Sporting Braga vs. Moreirense 1–0". Soccerway. 6 January 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  17. ↑ "Sporting Braga vs. Vitória Guimarães 3–2". Soccerway. 23 February 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  18. ↑ "Éder out until summer with torn knee ligaments". PortuGOAL. 2 March 2013. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  19. ↑ "Portugal survive scare to see off Luxembourg". UEFA.com. 7 September 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  20. ↑ "Portugal post Azerbaijan victory". UEFA.com. 11 September 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  21. ↑ "Paulo Bento announces Portugal's 23-man World Cup squad". PortuGOAL. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
  22. ↑ "Muller-inspired Germany thrash ten-man Portugal". FIFA.com. 16 June 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  23. ↑ Oscroft, Tim (23 June 2014). "USA 2–2 Spain". BBC Sport. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
  24. ↑ "Éder". Soccerway. Retrieved 19 June 2014.

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