Alhandra (footballer)

Alhandra
Personal information
Full name Luís Miguel Assunção Joaquim
Date of birth (1979-03-05) 5 March 1979
Place of birth Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position Left back
Youth career
1987–1989 Alhandra
1989–1998 Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–1999 Sporting CP 0 (0)
1998–1999 → Lourinhanense (loan) 27 (3)
1999–2000 Alverca 2 (0)
2000 Porto B 15 (3)
2001–2002 Académica 43 (7)
2002–2008 União Leiria 133 (5)
2008–2009 Enosis Neon 23 (1)
2009–2010 Gil Vicente 3 (0)
2010–2011 Eléctrico 10 (0)
2011 Monsanto 1 (0)
2012 Riachense 2 (0)
Total 259 (19)
National team
2000–2002 Portugal U21 15 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Luís Miguel Assunção Joaquim (born 5 March 1979 in Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon), known as Alhandra, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played mainly as a left back – he could also appear as a midfielder.

Football career

An unsuccessful graduate of Sporting Clube de Portugal's youth ranks, Alhandra started professionally with its feeder club, Sporting Clube Lourinhanense. After a brief spell with FC Porto's reserves he lived his most steady period with U.D. Leiria, helping the side to participations in the UEFA Intertoto Cup and being regularly used over the course of six top division seasons (a maximum of 30 league games in 2005–06 and a minimum of 16 in 2007–08, with the latter campaign ending in relegation).

On 2 April 2008 Alhandra signed a two-year contract with Enosis Neon Paralimni FC, adding to the massive Portuguese contingent at the Cypriot club. After one sole season he returned to Portugal, joining second level team Gil Vicente F.C. and being released at the end of the campaign.

Subsequently Alhandra resumed his career in the lower leagues of his country, retiring in 2012 at the age of 33.

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