Richard Almeida de Oliveira ( port. Richard Almeida de Oliveira ; March 20, 1989, São Paulo , Brazil ) - Azerbaijani footballer of Brazilian descent, midfielder of the Azerbaijani club " Karabakh " and the national team of Azerbaijan . Five - time champion of Azerbaijan (2014-2018) and three-time winner of the Azerbaijan Cup (2015-2017). Champion of Kazakhstan (2018).
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| Full name | Richard Almeida de Oliveira | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Growth | 177 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 69 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club |  Karabakh (Agdam) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club career
Almeida is a student of the Santo Andre Club. May 8, 2010 in a match against Ikas made his debut in Serie B [2] . In total for “Santo Andre” Richard played 4 matches.
In 2010 he moved to the Portuguese Segunda club “ Lived Vicente ”. August 29, 2010 he made his debut for the “cocks” in the match against “ Trofenci ” [3] . January 6, 2011 scored his first goal in the match against Penafiel [4] . At the end of the season, he helped the team take first place in the Segund.
In 2012, he transferred to the Azerbaijani " Karabakh ". On August 5, 2012 he made his debut in the championship of Azerbaijan in a match against the Inter club in the capital [5] . On August 19, 2012, he scored the first goal for the Azerbaijani team in the match against Sumgait [6] . At the end of the first season, Azerbaijan took 4th place among the scorers with 13 goals [7] . In subsequent seasons, Richard's performance subsided - 9 goals in two seasons.
On July 2, 2013, they made their debut in European competitions, namely in the Europa League against the Macedonian “ Metallurgist ” [8] . July 18, 2013 scored the first goal in the Europa League against the Polish club Piast [9] .
In 2014, for the first time became the champion of Azerbaijan in the " Karabakh ". Then, for three consecutive years, he won the Golden Double (championship and Cup of the country) with the team.
In the summer of 2017, after 5 years of living in Azerbaijan, he agreed to play for the national team of this country and received citizenship [10] .
In 2018, after the fifth consecutive championship, he decided to change the situation and agreed to the entreaties of Roman Grigorchuk , the former Gabala head coach - a five-time consecutive winner of the Azerbaijani championship in recent years and the eternal rival of Karabakh. Grigorchuk had just replaced Gabala with Kazakhstan's Astana and wanted to see him on the team [11] . On July 1, 2018, Almeida moved to Astana, signing a two-year contract for $ 1 million per year [12] . After playing 8 matches and scoring one goal from the penalty spot, the outsider Akzhayik became the team and the champion of Kazakhstan . In European competitions he took part in 9 substitution games, but he has not scored goals yet.
Team Career
The debut for the Azerbaijani national team took place on June 10, 2017 in the match of the qualifying tournament of the World Cup 2018 against the national team of Northern Ireland .
Achievements
Team
- "Lived Vicente"
- Portugal League Two Winner (1): 2010/11
- Karabakh
- Champion of Azerbaijan (5): 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2016/17 , 2017/18
- Azerbaijan Cup Winner (3): 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2016/17
- "Astana"
- Champion of Kazakhstan (1): 2018
Personal
- Best foreign player of the championship of Azerbaijan (1): 2014
Statistics
- As of November 16, 2018 [13]
| Season | Club | Division | League | Cup | Eurocups | Total | ||||
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| Matches | Goals | Matches | Goals | Matches | Goals | Matches | Goals | |||
| 2010 | Santo Andre | B series | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2010 | Paulista League | one | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | one | 0 | |
| 2010/11 | Lived vicente | Segund League | 28 | 6 | eight | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 6 |
| 2011/12 | League Sagrish | 29th | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 0 | |
| 2012/13 | Karabakh (Agdam) | Premier League | thirty | 13 | four | one | 0 | 0 | 34 | 14 |
| 2013/14 | 28 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 7 | one | 38 | 7 | ||
| 2014/15 | 32 | 3 | five | one | 12 | 0 | 48 | four | ||
| 2015/16 | 31 | 9 | 6 | one | 12 | four | 49 | 14 | ||
| 2016/17 | 20 | 2 | 2 | one | 12 | 2 | 34 | five | ||
| 2017/18 | 22 | five | five | one | 12 | 0 | 35 | 6 | ||
| 2018 | Astana | Premier League | eight | one | - | - | 9 | 0 | 17 | one |
| Total career | 229 | 45 | 24 | five | 64 | 7 | 335 | 56 | ||
Notes
- ↑ Transfermarkt.com - 2000.
- ↑ Icasa vs. Santo André - 8 May 2010 - Soccerway
- ↑ Gil Vicente vs. Trofense - August 29, 2010 - Soccerway
- ↑ Penafiel vs. Gil Vicente - 6 January 2011 - Soccerway
- ↑ İnter Bakı vs. Qarabağ - 5 August 2012 - Soccerway
- ↑ Sumqayıt vs. Qarabağ - August 19, 2012 - Soccerway
- ↑ Peşəkar Futbol Liqası
- ↑ Metalurg vs. Qarabağ - 2 July 2013 - Soccerway
- ↑ Qarabağ vs. Piast Gliwice - 18 July 2013 - Soccerway
- ↑ Richard ALMEIDA: I already have the national team of Azerbaijan
- ↑ Richard Almeida: I want to return to Karabakh
- ↑ Richard Almeida has chosen Astana. For 1 million dollars!
- ↑ Soccerway Profile