Agnaldo Moraes

Agnaldo Pinto de Moraes Júnior, commonly known as Moraes Jr. or Agnaldo Moraes (born 11 March 1994), is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Albanian club Skënderbeu.[1]

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Pinto and the second or paternal family name is de Moraes. "Júnior" is a generational suffix used for someone whose name is the same as their father, like "Jr." in English.
Agnaldo Moraes
Agnaldo with RoPS in 2018.
Personal information
Full name Agnaldo Pinto de Moraes Júnior
Date of birth (1994-03-11) 11 March 1994
Place of birth São Gonçalo, Brazil
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Skënderbeu
Youth career
Flamengo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2014 Desportivo Brasil
2013–2014 → Molde (loan) 7 (1)
2014–2019 Molde 37 (1)
2017 → Vila Nova (loan) 3 (0)
2018 → RoPS (loan) 21 (3)
2019 RoPS 19 (0)
2020–2021 KS Kastrioti 33 (0)
2021–2022 Skënderbeu 21 (0)
2022–2023 Kukësi 7 (0)
2023– Skënderbeu 9 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 May 2023

Career

Early career

Moraes started his career with Desportivo Brasil who played in Campeonato Paulista Série B, the fourth level of the São Paulo state professional football championship. In 2011 Agnaldo spent time visiting and training with Manchester United.[2] Moraes also played in a couple of friendlies for a Manchester United XI against Forest Green Rovers in June 2013, scoring 1 of the 2 goals in the 2–2 draw,[3] and against Peterborough United in August 2012, again scoring one of the goals.[4]

Molde FK

In March 2013 Moraes signed on a season-long loan for Norwegian Premier League side Molde.[5][6]

Moraes' first appearance for Molde was in the Norwegian Cup first round match against Elnesvågen in which he also scored his first goal for the club.[7] His first league appearance for Molde was against Hønefoss on 25 May 2013, in which he came on as a 59th minute Substitute for Josh Gatt.[8] Moraes scored his first league goal for Molde in the 91st minute of their 3–3 draw away to Vålerenga on 22 June 2013.[9]

RoPS (loan)

On 30 January 2018, RoPS announced the signing of Moraes on a season-long loan deal.[10]

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 30 May 2021[11]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Molde (loan) 2013 Tippeligaen 715330–154
Molde 2014 Tippeligaen 1604141–242
2015 1415210–203
2016 703010–110
2017 Eliteserien 0000––00
2018 000000–00
Total 37112361--555
Vila Nova (loan) 2017 Série B 3010–71111
RoPS (loan) 2018 Veikkausliiga 20342––245
RoPS 2019 1904010–240
Total 3938210--485
KS Kastrioti 2020–21 Kategoria Superiore 33010–10350
Career total 11952781018116415

Honours
Molde FK

References
  1. Agnaldo Moraes at Soccerway
  2. "Who are Manchester United's five new Brazilian signings?". 24 March 2011.
  3. "Brazilian Agnaldo impresses in Man Utd friendly". tribalfootball.com/. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  4. "Peterborough FC Tonight". community.manutd.com/. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  5. "Agnaldo Moares has signed for Molde FK". moldefk. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
  6. "Solskjaer gets Brazilian". nettavisen.no. 10 June 2008. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
  7. "Elnesvågen og Omegn 0 – 5 Molde". nifs.no. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
  8. "Molde vs. Hønefoss 4 – 0". Soccerway. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  9. "Vålerenga 3 – 3 Molde". Soccerway. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  10. "RoPS:lle keskikenttämies Moldesta - Moraes loppukauden lainalla Napapiirille". rops.fi (in Finnish). RoPS. 20 January 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  11. "Agnaldo". soccerway.com. Soccerway. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
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