Zé António
Zé António 2006
Zé António ( born March 14, 1977 in Torres Vedras; actually José António dos Santos Silva ) is a Portuguese football player.
The career of Zé António started at SC União Torreense. The leap into the professional squad, he managed in the Season 94 /95 17- year-old. At this time the SC União Torreense played in the 2nd Portuguese league.
In the season 98/99 he agreed with FC Porto on a multi-year contract and moved to the northern Portuguese port city. There, however, he did not make the leap into the team and was therefore awarded to Leca FC. He returned for the season 1999/2000 back to FC Porto, where he again failed the sporting breakthrough. He was then initially loaned to the Portuguese first division club FC Alverca before he moved there permanently for the season 2001/ 02. At the end of the season of FC Alverca dismounted. Zé António then went for Varzim SC in 1915, but this rose club at season's end in the second league from. Finally Looking for a new employer, he found himself for the season 03/ 04 at Académica Coimbra in the Portuguese first division.
There he played until the summer of 2005, because then Borussia Mönchengladbach secured the services of interior defense and furnished him with a contract until 2007. In September 2006, Zé António extended the contract with Borussia Mönchengladbach early in 2009. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed for the first time in the squad for the Portuguese national football team, but he came in the two European Championship qualifiers against Azerbaijan on October 7 and 11 October in Poland is not used.
After the descent of Borussia in the summer of 2007, Zé António announced, no longer wanting to play in the future for the " foal ". So it was clear that no other would be added to the 64 league games, the Zé António hitherto denied for Mönchengladbach.
As the search for a new club at first remained without result, Zé António trained until the winter break with with the Mönchengladbach amateurs to continue to keep fit. On 11 January 2008, he joined then finally for half a year on loan to the Turkish first division club Vestel Manisaspor. After a 1-2 home defeat against Kasımpaşa Istanbul was Manisaspor with a game before the season ends firmly relegated. Thus Zé António had already suffered the fourth relegation in his pro career.
On June 26, 2008 Borussia Mönchengladbach was where Zé António still had a current contract until end of June 2009, the early termination known. A day later, the defender has signed a two year contract with the Spanish side Racing Santander. Since 2010, Zé António played for the Portuguese club União Leiria. In October 2011, he graduated as a test player workouts at the German second division club FC Ingolstadt. In the 2011/12 season Leiria ran into financial problems and Zé António was no longer used. In summer 2012, he joined the second team of FC Porto.
Zé António is married to Martha. He lives with her, his daughter and his son.