Jorge Andrade
Encyclopedia
Jorge Manuel Almeida Gomes de Andrade, OIH (ˈʒɔɾʒ(ɨ) ɐ̃ˈdɾad(ɨ); born 9 April 1978) is a retired Portuguese
footballer who played as a central defender.
After playing two years with Porto, he went on to represent Deportivo de La Coruña
(which would be his main club - nearly 175 official appearances in five seasons) and Juventus
, appearing rarely for the latter due to injury.
Andrade gained more than 50 caps
for Portugal
, representing the nation in one World Cup
and one European Championship
, and helping it finish second in Euro 2004.
, Andrade made his professional debuts with hometown club C.F. Estrela da Amadora in 1997, helping it to two consecutive eighth first division places. He immediately caught the eye, and after that was on the move north, to F.C. Porto, being the club's most-used player in the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League, playing 12 times as the team reached the second group phase in the competition
.
After Portugal
’s unsuccessful 2002 World Cup
campaign, Andrade was snapped up by Spain
's Deportivo de La Coruña
, in a move that cost the Galicians €
12 million with the possibility of being increased to €13M (goalkeeper Nuno Espírito Santo
was also part of the deal, for €3M). He appeared in only 11 La Liga
games in his debut season, barred by César Martín and Moroccan
Noureddine Naybet, but was an undisputed first-choice (when healthy) in the following years.
On 21 April 2004, during a Champions League semi-finals match against former team Porto, Andrade was sent off
by Markus Merk
for a kick on Deco
. The gesture was of a friendly nature, but the referee was eluded by it, and immediately gave the defender his marching orders. He was forced to serve a one-match ban.
Andrade signed for Juventus FC
in the 2007 summer, for approximately €10 million. In a match against A.S. Roma
on 23 September, he badly broke his left kneecap and missed the rest of the 2007–08 season.
In the team's 2008 pre-season, Andrade suffered the same injury and missed the entire 2008–09. In a press release dated 7 August, Juventus stated:
-based club wrote off his salary as well as part of the transfer fee for the fiscal year, though Andrade stated he hoped to return playing at the highest level.
On 8 April 2009, Juventus and Andrade reached an agreement, and the player's remaining contract was canceled, leaving him free to find another club. After being released from Juventus, he went on trial to Málaga CF
, but he was not given a contract and was again free to search a new club. In early February 2010, he underwent a trial with Canadian
side Toronto FC
.
in April 2001, and was part of the nation's squads at the 2002 FIFA World Cup
and UEFA Euro 2004, scoring three goals in 51 caps – one of those goals came in the latter competition – played on home soil – a 2–1 win against Holland
, in the semifinals (an own goal).
Andrade appeared in five games during the Euro 2008 qualifying campaign, collecting his last cap on 22 August 2007 against Armenia
.
|1997–98||rowspan="3"|Estrela Amadora||rowspan="3"|Portuguese League||5||1|| || ||–||–||||||||
|-
|1998–99||17||2|| || ||–||–||||||||
|-
|1999–00||31||0|| || ||–||–||||||||
|-
|2000–01||rowspan="2"|Porto||rowspan="2"|Portuguese League||20||1|| || ||–||–||||||||
|-
|2001–02||32||2|| || ||–||–||||||||
|-
|2002–03||rowspan="5"|Deportivo
||rowspan="5"|Spanish League
||11||0||6||0||–||–||4||0||||
|-
|2003–04||37||0|| || ||–||–||11||0||||
|-
|2004–05
||35||1|| || ||–||–||7||0||||
|-
|2005–06
||18||1|| || ||–||–||||||||
|-
|2006–07||22||0|| || ||–||–||–||–||||
|-
|2007–08||rowspan="2"|Juventus
||rowspan="2"|Italian League
||4||0||1||0||–||–||0||0||||
|-
|2008–09||0||0||0||0||–||–||0||0||||
105||6|| || ||–||–||||||||
123||2|| || ||–||–||||||||
4||0|| || ||–||–||||||||
232||8|| || ||–||–||||||||
, Nani
and Nélson
, is a descendant from the Cape Verde
islands, previously a Portuguese colony
. He visited his homeland in 2006 and did some work with grassroots football during his stay.
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
footballer who played as a central defender.
After playing two years with Porto, he went on to represent Deportivo de La Coruña
Deportivo de La Coruña
Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña is a professional football club based in the city of A Coruña, Galicia; founded in 1906 and currently playing in Segunda División...
(which would be his main club - nearly 175 official appearances in five seasons) and Juventus
Juventus F.C.
Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...
, appearing rarely for the latter due to injury.
Andrade gained more than 50 caps
Cap (sport)
In sports, a cap is a metaphorical term for a player's appearance on a select team, such as a national team. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of association football...
for Portugal
Portugal national football team
The Portugal national football team represents Portugal in association football and is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation, the governing body for football in Portugal. Portugal's home ground is Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and their head coach is Paulo Bento...
, representing the nation in one World Cup
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...
and one European Championship
UEFA European Football Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA . Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current...
, and helping it finish second in Euro 2004.
Club career
Born in LisbonLisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, Andrade made his professional debuts with hometown club C.F. Estrela da Amadora in 1997, helping it to two consecutive eighth first division places. He immediately caught the eye, and after that was on the move north, to F.C. Porto, being the club's most-used player in the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League, playing 12 times as the team reached the second group phase in the competition
UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League, known simply the Champions League and originally known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or European Cup, is an annual international club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It...
.
After Portugal
Portugal national football team
The Portugal national football team represents Portugal in association football and is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation, the governing body for football in Portugal. Portugal's home ground is Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and their head coach is Paulo Bento...
’s unsuccessful 2002 World Cup
2002 FIFA World Cup
The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the 17th staging of the FIFA World Cup, held in South Korea and Japan from 31 May to 30 June. It was also the first World Cup held in Asia, and the last in which the golden goal rule was implemented. Brazil won the tournament for a record fifth time, beating Germany 2–0...
campaign, Andrade was snapped up by Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
's Deportivo de La Coruña
Deportivo de La Coruña
Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña is a professional football club based in the city of A Coruña, Galicia; founded in 1906 and currently playing in Segunda División...
, in a move that cost the Galicians €
Euro
The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...
12 million with the possibility of being increased to €13M (goalkeeper Nuno Espírito Santo
Nuno Espírito Santo
Nuno Herlander Simões Espírito Santo , simply Nuno, is a retired Santomean-born Portuguese footballer who played as a goalkeeper....
was also part of the deal, for €3M). He appeared in only 11 La Liga
La Liga
The Primera División of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional , commonly known as La Liga or, for sponsorship reasons, Liga BBVA since 2008, is the top professional association football division of the Spanish football league system...
games in his debut season, barred by César Martín and Moroccan
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
Noureddine Naybet, but was an undisputed first-choice (when healthy) in the following years.
On 21 April 2004, during a Champions League semi-finals match against former team Porto, Andrade was sent off
Ejection (sports)
In sports, an ejection is one of several disqualifying actions assessed to a player or coach by a game official , usually for unsportsmanlike conduct....
by Markus Merk
Markus Merk
Dr. Markus Merk is a former top-level German football referee. He is a six-time winner of the German Referee of the Year Award and the record holder in games refereed in the Bundesliga. In 2005, Merk was awarded the German Bundesverdienstkreuz in recognition of his service to football and his...
for a kick on Deco
Deco
Anderson Luís de Souza, OIH , commonly known as Deco, is a Brazilian-born Portuguese professional footballer who currently plays for Fluminense....
. The gesture was of a friendly nature, but the referee was eluded by it, and immediately gave the defender his marching orders. He was forced to serve a one-match ban.
Andrade signed for Juventus FC
Juventus F.C.
Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...
in the 2007 summer, for approximately €10 million. In a match against A.S. Roma
A.S. Roma
Associazione Sportiva Roma, commonly referred to as simply Roma, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence but one season in the early 50s...
on 23 September, he badly broke his left kneecap and missed the rest of the 2007–08 season.
In the team's 2008 pre-season, Andrade suffered the same injury and missed the entire 2008–09. In a press release dated 7 August, Juventus stated:
"On 9 July 2008, during a training session at Pinzolo, the player Jorge Manuel Almeida Gomes de Andrade was the victim of another serious injury to his left knee (relapse of the fracture of the rotula) operated twice in the past season. A new osteosynthesis operation was thus needed, with the post-surgery prognosis being a number of months.That was the third in a year and the fourth left knee surgery Andrade had in his career. The Turin
Given the impossibility for the player to recover to play professionally, the company has proceeded to fully write down the residual book value of the player's registration rights with a negative effect on the 2007–08 financial year for €6.8 million."
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
-based club wrote off his salary as well as part of the transfer fee for the fiscal year, though Andrade stated he hoped to return playing at the highest level.
On 8 April 2009, Juventus and Andrade reached an agreement, and the player's remaining contract was canceled, leaving him free to find another club. After being released from Juventus, he went on trial to Málaga CF
Málaga CF
Málaga Club de Fútbol is a Spanish football club based in Málaga, Andalusia. The team currently plays in Spain's La Liga.Málaga CF is generally seen as the successor to CD Málaga, one of the most historical Andalusian football clubs, by being a near-identical looking football club that even shares...
, but he was not given a contract and was again free to search a new club. In early February 2010, he underwent a trial with Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
side Toronto FC
Toronto FC
Toronto FC is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Toronto, Ontario which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada....
.
International career
Andrade made his debut for PortugalPortugal national football team
The Portugal national football team represents Portugal in association football and is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation, the governing body for football in Portugal. Portugal's home ground is Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and their head coach is Paulo Bento...
in April 2001, and was part of the nation's squads at the 2002 FIFA World Cup
2002 FIFA World Cup
The 2002 FIFA World Cup was the 17th staging of the FIFA World Cup, held in South Korea and Japan from 31 May to 30 June. It was also the first World Cup held in Asia, and the last in which the golden goal rule was implemented. Brazil won the tournament for a record fifth time, beating Germany 2–0...
and UEFA Euro 2004, scoring three goals in 51 caps – one of those goals came in the latter competition – played on home soil – a 2–1 win against Holland
Netherlands national football team
The Netherlands National Football Team represents the Netherlands in association football and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association , the governing body for football in the Netherlands...
, in the semifinals (an own goal).
Andrade appeared in five games during the Euro 2008 qualifying campaign, collecting his last cap on 22 August 2007 against Armenia
Armenia national football team
The Armenia national football team represents Armenia in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation of Armenia, the governing body for football in Armenia...
.
Club statistics
|-|1997–98||rowspan="3"|Estrela Amadora||rowspan="3"|Portuguese League||5||1|| || ||–||–||||||||
|-
|1998–99||17||2|| || ||–||–||||||||
|-
|1999–00||31||0|| || ||–||–||||||||
|-
|2000–01||rowspan="2"|Porto||rowspan="2"|Portuguese League||20||1|| || ||–||–||||||||
|-
|2001–02||32||2|| || ||–||–||||||||
|-
|2002–03||rowspan="5"|Deportivo
Deportivo de La Coruña
Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña is a professional football club based in the city of A Coruña, Galicia; founded in 1906 and currently playing in Segunda División...
||rowspan="5"|Spanish League
La Liga
The Primera División of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional , commonly known as La Liga or, for sponsorship reasons, Liga BBVA since 2008, is the top professional association football division of the Spanish football league system...
||11||0||6||0||–||–||4||0||||
|-
|2003–04||37||0|| || ||–||–||11||0||||
|-
|2004–05
2004–05 La Liga
2004–05 season was composed of the following clubs:* Albacete Balompié* Athletic Bilbao* Atlético Madrid* FC Barcelona* Real Betis* Deportivo de La Coruña* Espanyol* Getafe CF* Levante UD* Málaga CF* Real Mallorca* CD Numancia* CA Osasuna...
||35||1|| || ||–||–||7||0||||
|-
|2005–06
2005–06 La Liga
* Athletic Bilbao* Atlético Madrid* FC Barcelona* Betis* Cádiz CF* Celta de Vigo* Deportivo Alaves* Deportivo de La Coruña* Espanyol* Getafe CF* Málaga CF* RCD Mallorca* CA Osasuna* Racing de Santander* Real Madrid* Real Sociedad* Sevilla FC...
||18||1|| || ||–||–||||||||
|-
|2006–07||22||0|| || ||–||–||–||–||||
|-
|2007–08||rowspan="2"|Juventus
Juventus F.C.
Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...
||rowspan="2"|Italian League
Serie A
Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
||4||0||1||0||–||–||0||0||||
|-
|2008–09||0||0||0||0||–||–||0||0||||
105||6|| || ||–||–||||||||
123||2|| || ||–||–||||||||
4||0|| || ||–||–||||||||
232||8|| || ||–||–||||||||
Club
- Porto:
- Portuguese CupTaça de PortugalThe Taça de Portugal is the main Portuguese national football knock-out competition. The tournament has been officially known as the Taça de Portugal Millennium since 2008, due to its sponsorship by Portuguese private bank Millennium BCP. It has occurred on a yearly basis since 1938 and is...
: 2000–01 - Portuguese Supercup: 2001; Runner-up 2000
- Portuguese Cup
- Deportivo:
- Spanish SupercupSupercopa de EspañaThe Supercopa de España is a Spanish football championship contested by the winners of La Liga and the Copa del Rey...
: 20022002 Supercopa de EspañaThe 2002 Supercopa de España was two-leg Spanish football matches played on 18 August and 25 August 2002. It contested by RCD de la Coruña, who were Spanish Cup winners in 2001–02, and Valencia CF, who won the 2001–02 Spanish League.-First leg:-Second leg:...
- Spanish Supercup
Personal life
Andrade, along with fellow Portuguese internationals MiguelMiguel Monteiro
Luís Miguel Brito Garcia Monteiro, simply Miguel , OIH , is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Valencia CF in Spain, mainly as a right defender.-Early years / Benfica:...
, Nani
Nani
-People:*Nani, a Portuguese footballer who plays for Manchester United*Gianluca Nani, former technical director at West Ham United*Nanabhoy Palkhivala, nicknamed Nani, an Indian jurist and economist*Nani Roma, a Spanish rally racing driver...
and Nélson
Nélson Marcos
Nélson Augusto Tomar Marcos , simply Nélson, is a Portuguese footballer of Cape Verdean descent who plays for Real Betis in Spain, as a right defender.-Early years:...
, is a descendant from the Cape Verde
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...
islands, previously a Portuguese colony
Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire , also known as the Portuguese Overseas Empire or the Portuguese Colonial Empire , was the first global empire in history...
. He visited his homeland in 2006 and did some work with grassroots football during his stay.