Ezequias

Ezequias
Personal information
Full name	Ezequias Roosevelt Tavares de Melo
Date of birth	28 January 1981 (age 43)
Place of birth	Jundiaí, Brazil
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Left back
Team information
Current team	Independente-PA
Youth career
2000–2001	Corithians-AL
Senior career*
Years	Team
2001–2005	Marítimo
2001–2002	Marítimo B
2005	→ Gil Vicente (loan)
2005–2006	Académica
2006–2008	Porto
2007	→ Beira-Mar (loan)
2007–2008	→ Leixões (loan)
2008–2010	Braşov
2010–2012	Rapid București
2013	Corithians-AL
2014	Santa Cruz-PA
2015–2016	Independente-PA
2016	Águia Marabá
2017	Independente-PA
2017	Trem
2018–	Independente-PA
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 November 2020

Ezequias Roosevelt Tavares de Melo (born 28 January 1981), known simply as Ezequias, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Independente-PA as a left back.

He played for several teams during his professional career, in Brazil, Portugal and Romania.

Football career[edit]

Born in Jundiaí, São Paulo, Ezequias started playing football with lowly Sport Club Corinthians Alagoano. He would then spend the following seven seasons in Portugal, with C.S. Marítimo – where he arrived in 2001 alongside Pepe, later of FC Porto, Real Madrid and the Portugal national team fame – Gil Vicente FC, Académica de Coimbra, Porto, S.C. Beira-Mar^[1] and Leixões SC,^[2] the latter two loaned by the Primeira Liga club after being unable to impress (only one league appearance, a 1–2 away loss against S.C. Braga^[3]).

In the middle of 2008, Ezequias was finally released by Porto and signed with Romania's FC Brașov. Two years later, after two seasons as first-choice, he moved to another team in that country and its Liga I, FC Rapid București.

Personal life[edit]

For reasons unknown to him, Ezequias' second name was an homage to American president Franklin D. Roosevelt.^[4]

References[edit]

^ "Porto pair go out on loan". UEFA.com. 28 December 2006. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
^ "Saída e entrada de jogadores para a nova época" [Ins and outs for new season] (in Portuguese). DNotícias. 13 August 2007. Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
^ "Sp. Braga-F.C. Porto, 2–1 (crónica)" [Sp. Braga-F.C. Porto, 2–1 (match report)] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 2 October 2006. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
^ "Presidentes históricos na Madeira" [Historical presidents in Madeira]. Record (in Portuguese). 9 September 2002. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.

External links[edit]

Ezequias at ForaDeJogo (archived)
Ezequias at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
Ezequias at Soccerway
Ezequias at FBref.com

[1] "Porto pair go out on loan". UEFA.com. 28 December 2006. Retrieved 20 April 2010.

[2] "Saída e entrada de jogadores para a nova época" [Ins and outs for new season] (in Portuguese). DNotícias. 13 August 2007. Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2017.

[3] "Sp. Braga-F.C. Porto, 2–1 (crónica)" [Sp. Braga-F.C. Porto, 2–1 (match report)] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 2 October 2006. Retrieved 28 September 2017.

[4] "Presidentes históricos na Madeira" [Historical presidents in Madeira]. Record (in Portuguese). 9 September 2002. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.

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