Alexander Christovão

Alexander Christovão
Alexander Christovão in 2014
Personal information
Full name Alexandre Domingos Cristóvão M'Futila
Date of birth (1993-03-14) 14 March 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Landana, Angola
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
2012 FC Groningen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2012 Be Quick 1887
2012–2013 FC Groningen 5 (0)
2013–2014 SC Cambuur 8 (0)
2015 Recreativo Libolo 13 (1)
2016 Porcelana 5 (0)
2016–2017 Javor Ivanjica 19 (2)
2017–2018 Zagłębie Sosnowiec 31 (4)
2019 Dinamo București 9 (0)
2019 Al-Mujazzal 12 (3)
2020–2021 Keşla 7 (0)
International career‡
2014–2016 Angola 6 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 January 2022
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3 November 2020

Alexandre Domingos Cristóvão M'Futila, best known as Alexander Christovao (born 14 March 1993) is an Angolan footballer who plays as a striker.[1]

Club career

Born in Landana, he started playing in the Netherlands with lower-league side Be Quick 1887.[2] Then he played with FC Groningen and SC Cambuur in the Eredivisie between 2012 and 2014.[3]

By then he already had debuted in the Angolan national team so he called the attention of the leading Angolan clubs. Angolan premier league side Recreativo do Libolo brought him for their 2015 campaign which ended-up successfully as Libolo became national champions.[4] At the end of the season he left and signed with Porcelana[5] playing with them in the 2016 Girabola.[6]

On 8 August 2016, he signed a 3-year contract with Serbian club FK Javor Ivanjica.[7] He debuted for Javor in official matches, on 21 September 2016, in a Serbian Cup game against Proleter which Javor won by 1–0. He entered the game as a substitute in 66 minute.[3] In the SuperLiga he debuted on 15 October 2016, in an away game against Metalac.[3] Scoring 2 goals in 21 appearances in both domestic competitions for the club, he left the club in summer 2017.[8]

He then joined in summer 2017 Polish side Zagłębie Sosnowiec helping them achieve promotion to Polish top-flight, and playing following season with them in the 2018–19 Ekstraklasa.[4] His fine performances during the first half of the season, called the attention of other clubs during the winter transfers window, and thus he got brought by the Romanian historical powerhouse Dinamo Bucharest, playing with them the second half of the 2018–19 Liga I season.[4] Dinamo finished the season in a disappointing 9th place, and Alexander Christovão left and signed with Saudi Arabian side Al-Mujazzal.[4]

On 17 January 2020, Christovão signed for Keşla FK until the end of the 2019–20 season.[9]

International career

Alexandre Cristóvão has been a regular member of the Angolan national team since his debut in 2014.[4]

International goals

Scores and results list Angola's goal tally first.[4]
No Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 28 May 2014 Estádio Algarve, Algarve, Portugal  Morocco 2–0 2–0 Friendly
2. 16 June 2015 Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa  South Africa 1–0 1–2 Friendly

Honours

Recreativo Libolo

References

  1. ^ Een geheim Pools diner met Cristóvão M’Futila vice.com
  2. ^ Alexander Cristovão at zerozero.pt
  3. ^ a b c Alexander Christovao profile at Soccerway
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Alexander Christovao at National-Football-Teams.com
  5. ^ Porcelana 2016 squad at Girabola official website, retrieved 9-8-2016 (in Portuguese)
  6. ^ Alexander profile at Girabola official website, retrieved 9-8-2916 (in Portuguese)
  7. ^ Četiri zvučna pojačanja u Javor Matisu at FK Javor Ivanjica official website, 8-8-2016 (in Serbian)
  8. ^ ""FUDBAL" 28/17 - page 1122" (PDF). Football Association of Serbia (in Serbian). 12 July 2017. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  9. ^ "Xoş gəldin, Aleks!". keshlafc.az/ (in Azerbaijani). Keşla FK. 17 January 2020. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2020.