Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira

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Personal information

Full name

Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira

Date of birth

April 13 1988 (age 21)

Place of birth

Porto Alegre, Brazil

Height

1.76 m (5 ft 9¹⁄₂ in)

Playing position

Central Midfielder, Attacking midfielder, Left Winger

Club information

Current club

Manchester United

Number

Youth clubs

1993–2004

Grêmio

Senior clubs¹

Years

Club

App (Gls)*

2004–2005
2005–2007
2007–

Grêmio
FC Porto
Manchester United

05 (1)
18 (2)
18 (0)

National team²

2007–

Brazil

03 (0)

¹ Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 17:39, 1 March 2008 (UTC).
² National team caps and goals correct
as of 23:30, 06 February 2008 (UTC).
* Appearances (Goals)

This article is about the Manchester United player. For other Brazilian footballers nicknamed Anderson, see Anderson (footballer).

Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira (born 13 April 1988 in Porto Alegre, Brazil), best known as Anderson, is a Brazilian footballer, currently playing for Manchester United. His regular position is as an attacking midfielder although since his arrival at Old Trafford he has displayed strong defensive capabilities which is complemented by his low centre of gravity and workrate, and hence forth is employed as a box to box midfielder in a similar mould as Dutch maestro Edgar Davids.

1 Club career
2 International career
3 Honours
- 3.1 Club
  - 3.1.1 Grêmio
  - 3.1.2 Porto
4 References
5 External links

Club career

Grêmio

Anderson joined Grêmio as a youth player and in 2005 he made his first appearance for the team, playing 5 Brazilian Série B games in the second half of the year, as well as playing in the 2005 Gaúcho State Championship in the first half. He earned himself iconic status by scoring the goal that lifted Grêmio back into Serie A in a promotion playoff against Nautico. This goal was particularly memorable because Grêmio only had seven players on the pitch at the time and had just seen the opposition have a penalty saved. The goal gave Grêmio a 1-0 victory in the most unlikely of circumstances.

Porto

He joined FC Porto in December 2005 after only 5 first team appearances at a national level with Gremio, and made his league debut on 5 March 2006, playing a part in helping the team seal the Portuguese Championship that season. The following season, he made his UEFA Champions League debut in Porto's first group game against CSKA Moscow.^[1] However, Anderson was forced to miss five months of the 2006-07 season due to a broken leg. He also attracted interest from real madrid as they were in need of a central midfielder who is aggressive and can take a game by the scruff of the neck.

Manchester United

On 30 May 2007, it was confirmed on the Manchester United website that the club had agreed, in principle, to sign Anderson from FC Porto for an undisclosed fee, reported to be approximately £18m.^[2] On 29 June 2007, he was granted a work permit to play in England, and the move was completed on 2 July, with Anderson signing a five-year contract.^[3] Anderson is known to be long term friends with Portuguese speaking team mates, Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani.^[4] He made his Manchester United debut on 3 August 2007, playing 45 minutes of a pre-season friendly against Doncaster Rovers, which United won 2-0. He was given the number 8 jersey for the 2007-08 season, the number worn by Wayne Rooney the season before.

Anderson made his competitive debut for Manchester United against Sunderland on 1 September 2007. He was substituted at half time and replaced by Louis Saha, who went on to score the winning goal. Anderson later went on to make his Champions League debut against Sporting Lisbon, coming on as a substitute for Ryan Giggs in the 76th minute. He played the full 90 minutes in the Carling Cup match against Coventry City on 26th September 2007, in a team consisting almost entirely of youth and reserve team players. Manchester United lost 2-0; however, Sir Alex Ferguson had gone on to say that he was one of the best of a very poor bunch which played in that match.

On 6 October 2007, Anderson came on for Nemanja Vidić who suffered a concussion in Manchester United's home win against Wigan and put in what was described as his best performance of the season so far.^{[citation needed]} He then made his first Champions League start on 23 October 2007 as he put in a man of the match performance to help United to a 4-2 win over Dynamo Kiev. After Paul Scholes' recent injury, Manager Sir Alex Ferguson opted for Anderson to fill his boots in the midfield area, he made starts in matches versus Arsenal and Liverpool and was praised by several pundits for battling hard in midfield against Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas and Liverpool's Steven Gerrard. After the game against Liverpool Bristol City legend David Rodgers, who is a Liverpool fan himself, confessed that Anderson has all of the attributes to go on and become one of the greatest players in English football history.

He is yet to score a goal for The Red Devils but he said in an interview that as long as the team's winning and no goal drought he is patient and not too stressed about it.

International career

In April 2005, he played for Brazil in the South American U-17 Championship, and the following October he won the Adidas Golden Ball with his national team at the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Cup.^[5]

Anderson made his international debut for the Brazil national football team on 27 June 2007 in their 2-0 loss in a Copa América encounter with Mexico, coming on as a substitute. He made his first start for Brazil on 1 July 2007 against Chile in a 3-0 victory.

He has recently been called up to Dunga's Brazil squad for the first time since the Copa América to face Republic of Ireland in February, where Brazil won 1:0.