Eliseu Pereira dos Santos

Eliseu Pereira dos Santos ( born October 1, 1983 in Angra do Heroismo ) is a Portuguese football player with roots in Cape Verde. He plays for Málaga CF in La Liga, the Spanish top flight.

Career

Association

Eliseu started his career at Marítimo Angra, from where he came to Belenenses Lisbon. He was brought into the first team of Belenenses 2002. In his first season the club finished ninth the league was. 2003/ 04 the team with Eliseu just managed to avoid relegation with a 15th place. After ninth place in the following season, the midfielder was awarded for one season to the second division Varzim SC.

He was fourth in the second division. After the loan ended, he returned immediately back to Lisbon and was fifth in the league with Belenenses and reached the Cup final, where they failed to Sporting Lisbon 0-1.

Beginning of the 2007/08 season, the Portuguese moved to FC Málaga in Spain. Prompt the club was relegated from the Segunda Division with second place on. In the following season in the Spanish top one was eighth. Eliseu came in only two seasons on eight missions. 2009/10 he moved to Lazio in Italy, he left on loan to Spain in January 2010. Previously, he was still playing in the Europa League, where he made ​​his debut at European club level, on August 20 against the representative of Sweden IF Elfsborg. Eliseu was a substitute in a 3-0 victory in the first leg of the first round of the UEFA Europa League in Rome in the 75th minute for Mauro Zárate.

Since the season 2010/11 he again plays for FC Malaga.

National

His debut in the Portuguese national team, he was in the friendly match against Estonia on 10 June 2009. He was replaced in the 68th minute for Duda and received a yellow card. His first international goal - scoring on 7 October 2011 at the European Championship qualifier against Iceland ( 5:3 ).

Achievements

• Promotion to the Primera División: 2008