Xande Silva

Xande Silva
Personal information
Full name Alexandre Nascimento Costa Silva
Date of birth (1997-03-16) 16 March 1997
Place of birth Porto, Portugal
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 West Ham United
Number 32
Youth career
2007–2008 Alverca
2008–2009 Belenenses
2009–2014 Sporting CP
2014–2015 Vitória Guimarães
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2018 Vitória Guimarães B 52 (4)
2015–2018 Vitória Guimarães 26 (1)
2018– West Ham United 0 (0)
National team
2012 Portugal U15 2 (1)
2012–2013 Portugal U16 11 (3)
2013–2014 Portugal U17 15 (4)
2014 Portugal U18 2 (1)
2015–2016 Portugal U19 21 (5)
2016–2017 Portugal U20 14 (5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 07:27, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Alexandre 'Xande' Nascimento Costa Silva (born 16 March 1997) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for West Ham United as a forward.

Club career

Silva played for Vitória Guimarães and its B team between 2014 and 2018. He made 26 appearances in the Primeira Liga, scoring his only goal for the first team against Rio Ave on 7 December 2015.[1]

He joined West Ham United for an undisclosed fee on 2 August 2018.[2] He signed a three-year contract and was recruited initially for the Hammers' under-23 team. He scored a hat-trick on his Premier League 2 debut, against Tottenham Hotspur, on 13 August.[3][4]

International career

Silva has been a youth international for Portugal at every level between under-15 and under-20. He was part of the squad that reached the semi-finals of the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship and was named in the Team of the Tournament.[5] Two years later, he played in the team that reached the semi-finals of the 2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship.[6] He then played in the 2017 FIFA U20 World Cup and scored in the quarter-final against Uruguay.[3][7]

References

  1. ↑ Alexandre Silva at Soccerway. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "West Ham United sign promising Portuguese forward Xande Silva". West Ham United F.C. 2 August 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 Inkersole, Sam (14 August 2018). "Who is Xande Silva? West Ham's newest goalscoring sensation who put Tottenham to the sword". football.london. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  4. ↑ "Tottenham Hotspur U23 vs. West Ham United U23 - 13 August 2018". Soccerway. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "Technical report" (PDF). UEFA: 21–21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 September 2017.
  6. ↑ "Under-19 - Portugal-France". UEFA. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017 - Matches - Portugal-Uruguay". FIFA. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
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