Anderson is a 29 year old Brazilian football player who last played for Internacional a Brazilian team but now he is a free agent. Anderson is most known for his time when he played for Manchester United in 2007-2015 but he made 105 appearances in that time for them winning the premier league four times.
Anderson started his career in his homeland with the team Gremio he made his professional debut on the 23rd of october 2003 in a 3-1 loss to Internacional, Anderson scored the only goal for his team in that game from a free kick. In january 2006 he was transferred to Porto for 7 million euros, Anderson didn´t make his debut until the 5th of march for Porto in a game where they sealed the primeira liga title, he then made his Champions League debut the next game against CSKA Moscow, but sadly the next season after Anderson broke his leg in a game against Benfica and was injured for six months.
On the 2nd of July Anderson was approached and signed by the giants Manchester United, United paid 30 million euros for Anderson, he got the shirt number 8 which made Rooney wear the famous number 10 jersey, Anderson made his debut for United on the 3rd august in 2007 in a friendly versus Doncaster. Probably the biggest moment of Anderson’s career was when he was brought on as a substitute on the final minute of extra time against Chelsea in the Champions League final to take the 6th penalty for United, Anderson scored his penalty and United went on and won the game 6-5 and that was Anderson’s first Champions League Victory. As i mentioned before Anderson made 105 appearances for United winning the premier league 4 times, the league cup twice, community shield twice, the fifa clup world cup one time and the Champions league once.
After his time at Manchester Anderson didn’t do much. He only played 61 games scoring only one goal, and for the national team he only managed to make 8 appearances back in 2007.
Post by: Viktor Ingi Þrastarson
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