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.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ezequias Roosevelt Tavares de Melo | ||
| Date of birth | 28 January 1981 | ||
| 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 | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2005 | Marítimo | 60 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | Marítimo B | 12 | (1) |
| 2005 | → Gil Vicente (loan) | 16 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | Académica | 26 | (0) |
| 2006–2008 | Porto | 1 | (0) |
| 2007 | → Beira-Mar (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | → Leixões (loan) | 25 | (0) |
| 2008–2010 | Braşov | 50 | (1) |
| 2010–2012 | Rapid București | 35 | (0) |
| 2013 | Corithians-AL | ||
| 2014 | Santa Cruz-PA | ||
| 2015–2016 | Independente-PA | 6 | (1) |
| 2016 | Águia Marabá | 5 | (0) |
| 2017 | Independente-PA | 12 | (0) |
| 2017 | Trem | 2 | (0) |
| 2018– | Independente-PA | 18 | (1) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 November 2020 | |||
He played for several teams during his professional career, in Brazil, Portugal and Romania.
Football career
editBorn 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
editFor 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.
