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Vander Carioca
Personal information
Full name	Vander dos Santos Ferreira
Date of birth	22 June 1976 (age 48)
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	America-RJ
Senior career*
Years	Team
1995	Wimpro/Guarulhos
1996	General Motors/Jambeiro
1997	Atlético Mineiro
1998	Flamengo
2000–2001	Vasco da Gama
2001–2003	Playas de Castellón
2003–2004	Martorell
2005	Arzignano
2005–2008	Norilsk Nickel
2009	Tyumen
2010–2011	Petrópolis EC
2012–2014	Joinville
2015	Vasco da Gama
2016–2018	Corinthians
2021	Magé Futsal
International career
1998–2004	Brazil
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 September 2024

Vander dos Santos Ferreira (born 22 June 1976), better known as Vander Carioca, is a Brazilian retired professional futsal player who played as a forward.

Career

Considered one of the greatest pivots of all time in Brazilian futsal, Vander Carioca came to play in America youth categories. In futsal, he began his career at Wimpro/Guarulhos, and played for countless Brazilian futsal clubs, in one of the longest careers in the category. He won the Brazilian National Futsal League twice, in 2000 with Vasco da Gama and 2016 with Corinthians, in addition to a Spanish title with Playas de Castellón in 2000–01.

Carioca was also part of the Brazil futsal team squads that played in the 2000 and 2004 FIFA Futsal World Cup, being runner-up in 2000 and third place in 2004, in addition to two Copa América titles.

He retired from Corinthians in 2018, but in 2021 he returned to the court at the age of 45 to defend the recently created Magé Futsal.^[1]^[2]^[3]