Evaldo Goncalves

Evaldo Goncalves
Personal information
Full name	Evaldo Rodrigues Goncalves
Date of birth	10 January 1981 (age 43)
Place of birth	Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
0000–2000	Goiás
Senior career*
Years	Team
2000–2001	Xiamen Lanshi
2005–2006	Uniao Bandeirante
2006–2007	Caldense
2007–2008	Joinville Esporte Clube
2009–2013	Hoàng Anh Gia Lai
2014–2015	Terengganu F.C. II
Total
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Evaldo Rodrigues Goncalves (born 10 January 1981 in Goiânia, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer, best known as striker played for Hoang Anh Gia Lai F.C. in V.League 1.

Club career

Born in Goiânia, Evaldo was a youth player for Goiás, is a Brazilian sports club. He started his career with Xiamen Lanshi^[1] before to moving on to other clubs such as Uniao Bandeirante, Caldense, America RJ and Joinville. Joinville was later disbanded after relegated from Serie C in 2008 and Evaldo switched to V-League at that time.

When Evaldo joined HAGL in 2009, he was regarded as cover for another Brazilian striker Agostinho, who had been the club's main scorer since 2008. Nevertheless, Agostinho was suddenly fired due to a conflict with Lee Nguyen, a new signing (who was also fired early this year) at that point of time. The departure of Agostinho meant HAGL had no more choice but Evaldo in forward position. When the chances came, he made it to score 11 goals in V-League 2009 and some of them were extremely important ones.^[2]

After a successful season, at least for himself, Evaldo decided to bring his whole family to Vietnam in order to focus more on his job. Regarding his contribution since the beginning of 2010 season, HAGL board are understandably happy, not only because of his goals but also his professional behaviour. He is becoming a new symbol of the club on Central Highland.^[3]

Honours

Hoang Anh Gia Lai

V.League 1 runners-up: 2010

References

^ "Vietfootball: V-League Focus: Evaldo Goncalves". 9 May 2010.
^ "Evaldo: Samba của núi rừng Pleiku". thethaovanhoa.vn (in Vietnamese). 30 August 2010.
^ "Huyền thoại CLB HAGL muốn trở lại dẫn dắt đội bóng | Goal.com".

[1] "Vietfootball: V-League Focus: Evaldo Goncalves". 9 May 2010.

[2] "Evaldo: Samba của núi rừng Pleiku". thethaovanhoa.vn (in Vietnamese). 30 August 2010.

[3] "Huyền thoại CLB HAGL muốn trở lại dẫn dắt đội bóng | Goal.com".

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