António Manuel VianaMendonça

António Manuel VianaMendonçan was born on the 9^th October 1982 in Luanda. He is an Angolan international football player who is currently playing the role of a right winger for the club, Santos FutebolClube de Angola on loan from CD Primeiro de Agosto.

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Club Career

VianaMendonça moved to Portugal in January of the year 2000, when he was 17 years of age. He signed with Varzim SC in the second division league of the country. He scored the total of 10 goals for the club after playing the total of 30 games for the club and that helped the club to gain promotion to the top flight games of the country. In the following season, he played the total of 28 matches, starting 18 of the matches for the club.

After a short loan, from the year 2003 to the year 2007, VianaMendonça played often for the club. He went back to the main division in the 1007/08 season, but played just 14 games for CF OsBelenenses and CF Estrela da Amadora combined and that prompted his going back to his former club, still the second division.

VianaMendonça went back to his country in the year 2009 and signed for GD Interclube. The next year he moved to CD Primeiro de Agosto and that was his first senior club.

International Career

VianaMendonça played his first match for the national team of the country in the year 1999, before his 17^th birthday. He was selected to be the best player of the 2001 African U-20 Championship.

VianaMendonça was part of the Angolan national team that played in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, a first ever world cup participation for the country. He played in all the group stage matches for the country. He played in two African Cups of Nations for the country as well.

Since his debut in the year 1999, VianaMendonça played the total of 43 matches for the country with 4 goals recorded to his name for the country. He stopped playing international football in the year 2009.