Almami Moreira

Almami Moreira ( born June 16, 1978 in Bissau, Guinea -Bissau; actually Almami Samori da Silva Moreira ) is a Portuguese football player at the Chinese club Dalian Aerbin.

His speed and his ability to play good passes, making him nearly everywhere in central midfield.

Career

Association

Born in Guinea- Bissau, he played from 1997 when the Portuguese first division club Boavista Porto. Overall, he came between 1997 and 2001 to 17 games for Boavista, where he scored one goal. Among the seasons 1997/98 and 1998/99 Moreira, however, was only loaned to second division Gondomar SC, then to the third division Gil Vicente FC. For the new millennium, he moved to 10 times Belgian champions Standard Liege. Here he experienced his so far most successful time in his career, was a remarkable group game in the UEFA Cup 2003/ 04, where he met with Standard Liege on the Icelandic champions FH Hafnarfjörður. Moreira scored in this game, all four goals for the Belgians (final score: 4-3 ). For the season 2004 /05 Moreira moved for one year on loan to Hamburger SV in the German Bundesliga. With him with offensive colleague Emile Mpenza came from Belgium. His debut in the German top flight gave the Portuguese then on Matchday 4, 11 September 2004, at 0:2 against VfB Stuttgart. Coach Klaus Möller Topp dropped his new purchase then accumulate in the starting lineup. On the 13th matchday in a 6-0 away win against FC Hansa Rostock HSV, Moreira scored his first of three Bundesliga goals for the northern club. Although the midfielder was used regularly, the HSV did not pull the purchase option and Moreira went back to Liege. But you also there wanted to dispense with the services of the offensive player. A year later, in August 2006, he signed a three year contract with the Russian first division side FK Dynamo Moscow. In Moscow Moreira could not fulfill the expectations, and after only one season game, he left the club in January 2007 and returned to Portugal in order to save the floating in danger of relegation Club CD Aves. At the end Moreira, despite good performances relegation not stop and changed on 5 August 2007 on the Serbian capital club FK Partizan Belgrade. Here he was already in his second, on 29 July 2007 a ​​hero when he scored with a long shot to a 2-2 draw in the Eternal derby against rivals FK Red Star Belgrade in the 88th minute. In his first season in Belgrade, he completed 28 games (7 goals), and won the Double. In the UEFA Cup match on 3 December 2008 against FC Sevilla Moreira suffered a collapse during the game and was immediately taken to hospital, in January 2009 he was again employed. On 22 April 2009 it was announced that Moreira extended his contract with Partizan to three years. Due to constant good performances he was voted in the top 11 of the Serbian Super League 2008/ 09, and again won the Double. On August 5, 2009, Moreira League qualifier decided, despite the death of his mother the day before the UEFA Champions against the Cypriot champions APOEL Nicosia to compete. Moreira scored on only 180 seconds to lead, Partizan won 1-0, but because they lost 2-0 in Cyprus, that they separated from. On February 27, 2010 Moreira denied the league match against FK Borac Čačak to his 100th competitive game for Partizan. He wears the number 10

National

He played between 1997 and 1999 a total of 19 games (7 goals) for the Portuguese U -21 national team, and 2002 in preparation for the Portuguese national football team at the FIFA World Cup 2002 in Japan / South Korea two games ( a 1-1 draw with Japan and a 3-0 against Nigeria) for the A- team, but was not considered for the World Cup. Since the 3-0 win over Nigeria on May 1, 2002, he waits for a nomination for Portugal's national team.

Eight years later, Moreira was again nominated for the national team. However, for his home country of Guinea- Bissau. His debut for the Djurtus gave the midfielder finally on September 4, 2010 at the qualifying match for the 2012 African Cup against Kenya. The team Moreira debut the first victory Surprisingly succeeded in an official international match after fourteen years. In order to qualify for the AM, the Portuguese coach Luís Norton de Matos is increasingly relying on the Legionaries Moreira and his national comrades Basile de Carvalho, José Monteiro de Macedo and Ednilson.

Achievements

• Serbian Cup Winners: 2007/ 08, 2008/ 09

Individual honors:

• Player of the Season at Standard Liege: 2001 /02 & 2003/ 04, Vice: 2005/ 06