Jorge Manuel Almeida Gomes de Andrade (; born 9 April 1978) is a Portuguese former professional
footballer who played as a
centre-back.
After playing two years with
Porto
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, he went on to represent
Deportivo de La Coruña (169 official appearances in five seasons) and
Juventus, appearing rarely for the latter club due to injury.
Andrade earned more than 50
caps for
Portugal
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, representing the country at the
2002 World Cup and
Euro 2004 and helping it finish second in the latter tournament.
Club career
Early career
Andrade was born in
Lisbon
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. He made his professional debut with his hometown club
Estrela da Amadora in 1997, helping it to two consecutive eighth
Primeira Liga places as well as participation in the
1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup. He immediately caught the eye, and after that was on the move north to
Porto
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,
being the team's most used player in the
2001–02 edition of the
UEFA Champions League at 15 matches (of a possible 16) as they reached the second group phase in the competition.
Deportivo
After
Portugal
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's unsuccessful
2002 World Cup campaign, Andrade joined Spain's
Deportivo de La Coruña in a move that cost the
Galician side
€12 million with the possibility of being increased to €13 million (
goalkeeper Nuno Espírito Santo was also part of the deal, for €3 million). He appeared in 11
La Liga games in his
debut season, barred by
César Martín and
Noureddine Naybet, but was an undisputed first-choice when healthy in the following years.
On 21 April 2004, during a
Champions League semi-finals fixture against his 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.
Juventus
Andrade signed for
Juventus in summer 2007, for approximately €10 million. In a
Serie A
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match against
Roma on 23 September, he broke his left
patella and missed the rest of
the 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.
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."
That was the third in a year and the fourth left knee surgery Andrade had in his career. The
Turin
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-based club wrote off his salary as well as part of the transfer fee for the fiscal year, though he 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 cancelled, leaving him free to find another team. After being released he went on trial with
Málaga
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, but was not offered a deal eventually; in early February 2010, he was scheduled to undergo a trial at
Toronto FC in Canada, but failed to report.
International career
Andrade made his debut for
Portugal
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on 25 April 2001, playing the full 90 minutes in a 4–0
friendly defeat in
France
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,
[ and was part of the nation's squads at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2004, partnering Ricardo Carvalho for the runners-up at the latter and eventually scoring three goals in 51 games,][ the first being in a 5–1 win against ]Angola
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on 14 November 2001, an exhibition game marred by violence. In Euro 2004, held on home soil, he also put one in his own net in a 2–1 victory over the Netherlands
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in the semi-finals.
Andrade missed Portugal's fourth-place finish at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, having had knee surgery in March that year. He appeared in five matches during the Euro 2008 qualifying campaign, his last international occurring on 22 August when he started in a 1–1 draw in Armenia
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.
Coaching career
On 9 April 2015, Andrade was named assistant to Pedro Hipólito at hometown club Atlético Clube de Portugal, then struggling in the Segunda Liga. The following 21 February, he was interim manager for the match away to Porto B, losing by a single goal.
Andrade took his first outright job on 21 March 2016 at fellow capital team Oriental, occupying a precarious position in the same league. In May, four of his players were investigated for allegedly taking bribes to throw games, and the campaign ended with relegation.
In February 2019, Andrade was appointed assistant to Sandro Mendes at Vitória de Setúbal. He stood down in August, for family reasons.
Andrade returned to Estrela on 4 December 2021, as part of the club's football structure.[
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Personal life
Andrade, along with fellow Portuguese internationals Miguel, Nani and Nélson, had descent from the Cape Verde
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islands, previously a Portuguese colony. He visited the archipelago in 2006, and did some work with grassroots football during his stay.
Career statistics
Club
International
:''Scores and results list Portugal's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Andrade goal.''
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Honours
Porto
*Taça de Portugal
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: 2000–01
*Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
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: 2001;[ runner-up: 2000]
Deportivo
* Supercopa de España: 2002[
Portugal
* UEFA European Championship runner-up: ]2004
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Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
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Orders
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Medal of Merit, Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa ( House of Braganza)
References
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1978 births
Living people
Portuguese sportspeople of Cape Verdean descent
Black Portuguese sportspeople
21st-century Portuguese sportsmen
20th-century Portuguese sportsmen
Portuguese men's footballers
Footballers from Lisbon
Men's association football central defenders
Primeira Liga players
C.F. Estrela da Amadora players
FC Porto players
La Liga players
Deportivo de La Coruña players
Serie A players
Juventus FC players
Portugal men's youth international footballers
Portugal men's under-21 international footballers
Portugal men's B international footballers
Portugal men's international footballers
2002 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 2004 players
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Portuguese football managers
Liga Portugal 2 managers
Atlético Clube de Portugal managers
Portuguese association football commentators