Leandro Semedo (born 24 December 1994 in

Praia Praia (, Portuguese for "beach") is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde.Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player for

S.L. Benfica (), commonly known as Benfica, is a professional football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football. Founded on 28 February 1904, as ''Sport Lisboa'', Benfica is one of the " ...

and the Cape Verde men's national handball team.

Career

He made his competitive national debut on January 15, 2021, in the

2021 World Men's Handball Championship The 2021 IHF World Men's Handball Championship was the 27th event hosted by the International Handball Federation and held in Egypt from 13 to 31 January 2021. Starting with this edition, the World Championship was expanded from 24 teams to 32. I ...

against Hungary and lost 27–34.

References

1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Praia Cape Verdean male handball players FC Porto handball players CB Ademar León players S.L. Benfica handball players Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate handball players in Spain Expatriate handball players in Portugal Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Portugal {{CapeVerde-sport-bio-stub