Jose Luis Mendes Andrade

Where Zé Luis was born, football is one of the few joys that people can afford, which is why the fellow countrymen are proud of it. Everyone in Spartak Moscow is already used to it: if music is playing somewhere, then their striker is nearby.

Ze Luis is the owner of an unusual name, according to his passport, he is Jose Luis Mendes Andrade, and the same exotic nationality is a Cape Verdian. The footballer was born in this island state off the west coast of Africa in January 1991 and became the youngest of three sons.

The biographies of the Andrade brothers are formed in different ways. One moved his family to the United States and is trying to settle there. The second, according to the stories of Ze Luis, remained with his mother in Cape Verde, is addicted to alcohol and wants nothing from life.

Luis himself studied at school intermittently - he spent a month in the classroom, a month - at the local football academy "Epif". The family lived modestly - the president of the academy presented the first football boots to the guy. Mom, despite the difficulties, made every effort so that the youngest son did not have to work and devote more time to study and football.

In Cape Verde, the forward said, there are no football schools in the European sense, but sport is in everyone's blood. Anyone who achieves even the slightest success strives to leave the islands for Europe. On one of the trips of the local team Ze Luis was asked if he wants to repeat this path. The guy didn’t even bother asking what salary they were offering, and immediately agreed.

As a teenager, Jose managed to play in the Portuguese "Leixoins" and "Freamund", then he practiced in the Romanian "Gloria".

At the age of 18, Luis moved to Portugal, tested the fields in the teams "Gil Vicente" and "Sporting de Braga". In 2013 he won the Portuguese League Cup. Thanks to Braga and the advice of his mentor Sergio Conceição, the forward ended up in Russia.

In the summer of the same year, Ze Luis rented a Videoton from Hungary. His coach Jose Gomes liked the footballer not only as a mentor - the athletes developed friendly relations. The team, not without the participation of a new striker, made it to the Hungarian Cup final. Luis believes that he was able to really grow professionally in the Hungarian club.

In 2015, football giants from the Portuguese Big Three - Benfica and Porto, as well as Dynamo Moscow showed interest in Ze Luis. However, the footballer signed the contract with the capital "Spartak". The transfer amount was € 6.5 million. The current agreement with the forward is calculated until 2021. Including the 2017-2018 season, he played 73 matches for red and whites and scored 21 goals.

Luis came to the Moscow club as a player with a distinctive jumping ability, which, in general, was not a problem for a football player 185 cm tall and weighing 84 kg. In the penalty area, the dark-skinned Spartak player jumped almost a meter and easily scored with his head.

Over time, the manner of playing has changed. Jose began to look for the ball on the field, wasting no time waiting for a pass from his partner, dizzy his opponents with frequent changes in rhythm, overpasses and positions.

In the Premier League match of the 2017-2018 season, Spartak lost to the Chechen Akhmat. Sharp-tongued commentator Vasily Utkin illustrated the event on Instagram with a photo of a black dog surrounded by sheep, and mentioned Ze Luis in the commentary. The post caused a wave of indignation, Utkin was forced to apologize, and then completely deleted the scandalous post. As the journalist explained, very influential people asked him about it.

The commentator has previously expressed dissatisfaction with the striker's performance, pointing to bleak statistics and addressing Luis on Twitter with the question "Where are the goals?"

Injuries in football are commonplace. They did not bypass the Cape Verdian either, but Luis's injuries were exotic, one might say. Either he got a stretching of the abdominal muscles, which is more characteristic of goalkeepers, or a pinched nerve in the inguinal canal. And each time the footballer dropped out of the game for several weeks. In the end, the journalists began to ask the head coach of Spartak Massimo Carrera if he was tired of so many injuries of the athlete. Because of them, the player entered the field of the Russian Championship-2018 in hardly a dozen matches.

On the personal front, Zé Luís is not clear. The footballer has a common-law wife Rafaela and two children - Mia and Leo, but the family remained in Portugal. At the same time, her daughter has serious health problems: according to Luis, until the girl is 7 years old, she must be examined every month.

At the beginning of 2018, new photos on Instagram of the striker brought confusion to the ranks of his fans. They depict Ze Luis with a Russian woman named Alesya. The girl is a graduate of the Moscow Higher School of Fitness, a professional dancer and choreographer, the founder of her own dance studio.

The couple spent the winter holidays in Rio de Janeiro, in the account on the social network, the football player's new passion posted the corresponding illustrations. As noted by the Sportfm.ru portal, not knowing the details of the situation, it is premature to condemn young people. But the Spartak player is a priori a public person, and it would be nice to explain himself.

In the 2017-2018 season, Spartak parted with the title of the Russian football champion. As a consolation, the team got the opportunity to compete for a direct ticket to the Champions League. The rival of the red and white was Moscow Dynamo, the meeting with which in the match of the last round of the Russian Premier League ended in the defeat of the club Ze Luis. And as a result, Spartak gets into the Champions League only through qualification.

At the beginning of the year, a rumor leaked to the press that the newcomer of the English Premier League - the club "Brighton" - is ready to buy the Spartak striker for £ 20 million. This amount was announced by The Mirror. However, the coach of the team Chris Houghton was quick to announce that the rumors will remain so, and there is no talk of any deal with The Luis.

Valery Nepomnyashchy, a sports expert for Moskovsky Komsomolets, a former coach himself, said that the striker's departure would not have the best effect on Spartak. And Luis himself admitted that he had not yet received offers that would suit all parties, and therefore intends to work out a contract with Muscovites.

The Spartak striker played for the Cape Verde national team in the group stage of the 2018 FIFA qualifying tournament. Alas, the national team of his homeland did not qualify.

2013 - Cup of the Portuguese League 2017 - champion of Russia in football, winner of the Russian Super Cup

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