Joseph Mendes

Joseph Mendes (born 30 March 1991) is a professional footballer who plays for AC Ajaccio as a forward. Born in France, Mendes represents the Guinea-Bissau national football team internationally.

Joseph Mendes
Mendes with Le Havre in 2015
Personal information
Full name Joseph Mendes[1]
Date of birth (1991-03-30) 30 March 1991
Place of birth Évreux, France
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 Ajaccio
Number 9
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 Grenoble 13 (1)
2011–2012 Épinal 22 (3)
2012–2013 Le Mans 20 (3)
2012–2013 Le Mans B 9 (4)
2014 Lokomotiv Plovdiv 7 (0)
2014 Luzenac 0 (0)
2014–2016 Le Havre 59 (11)
2015 Le Havre B 4 (1)
2016–2018 Reading 15 (3)
2018– Ajaccio 32 (0)
2019– Ajaccio B 4 (2)
National team‡
2019– Guinea-Bissau 5 (3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 July 2019
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10 September 2019

Club career

Born in Évreux, Mendes began his career at Grenoble in Ligue 2. He made 14 total appearances in his only season, and scored his only goal on 17 December 2010, when he came on as an 84th-minute substitute for Yoric Ravet and wrapped up a 3–1 home win over Dijon.[2] In October 2011, he signed for Championnat National team Épinal.[3]

In 2012, Mendes returned to the second tier with Le Mans. He remained there until December 2013, when he signed an 18-month deal with Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Bulgarian A Football Group.[4] In June 2014, he returned to Ligue 2 with newly promoted club Luzenac AP,[5] who eventually were suspended from competition due to an inadequate stadium and released all of their professionals.[6] In August, he signed a three-year deal with Le Havre in the same competition.[7] He scored a career-best 9 goals in 2015–16, including two in a 3–1 win at Auxerre on 6 May 2016.[8]

On 8 July 2016, Mendes signed a two-year contract with Championship side Reading.[9] Mendes scored a brace, on his first start in a 3–1 away victory over Aston Villa on 15 April 2017.[10] He played only seven times in his second season,[11] and in May 2018 Reading decided against renewing his contract.[12]

On 2 July 2018, Mendes signed for Ligue 2 club AC Ajaccio. He joined up again with Ghislain Gimbert, his former Le Havre strike partner.[11]

International career

Born in France to a Bissau-Guinean father and a Senegalese mother,[13] Mendes was first selected to the Guinea-Bissau national football team for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification match against Namibia in November 2018.[14] He made his debut on 8 June 2019 in a friendly against Angola, as a starter,[15] and later that month was chosen for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, in which his team were eliminated from the group stage in Egypt.[16]

In September 2019, Mendes scored all of Guinea-Bissau's goals in a 3–1 aggregate win over São Tomé and Príncipe in the first round of qualification for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[17][18]

Career statistics
As of match played 1 July 2019[19][20]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Grenoble 2010–11 Ligue 2 1512000–171
SAS Épinal 2011–12 Championnat National 22300––223
Le Mans 2012–13 Ligue 2 2032200–225
Lokomotiv Plovdiv 2013–14 Parva Liga 7010––80
Le Havre 2014–15 Ligue 2 2221000–232
2015–16 3790010–389
Total 59111010--6111
Reading 2016–17 Championship 123002020163
2017–18 300010–40
Total 153003020203
Ajaccio 2018–19 Ligue 2 2702000–290
Career total 1652182402017923

International goals
Scores and results list Guinea-Bissau's goal tally first.[21]
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.10 September 2019Estádio 24 de Setembro, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau São Tomé and Príncipe1–12–12022 FIFA World Cup qualification
2.2–1

References
  1. "EFL: Club list of registered players" (PDF). English Football League. 20 May 2017. p. 34. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  2. "LIGUE 2/ 18e JOURNÃ?E [sic]". Le Parisien (in French). 18 December 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  3. "Mendes, dernière recrue spinalienne" [Mendes, Épinal's latest recruit]. Vosges Matin (in French). 4 October 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  4. "Football. Le Mans FC : Joseph Mendes en Bulgarie" [Football. Le Mans FC: Joseph Mendes in Bulgaria] (in French). Ma Ville. 4 December 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  5. "Joseph Mendes completes move to Luzenac". Get French Football News. 17 June 2014. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  6. "Luzenac wrongly prevented from being promoted to Ligue 2 in 2014, court decides". Get French Football News. 1 September 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  7. "Joseph Mendes joins Le Havre". Get French Football News. 23 August 2014. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  8. "Ligue 2. Le Havre s'impose à Auxerre, Laval obtient son maintien" [Ligue 2. Le Havre impose themselves on Auxerre, Laval achieve their survival] (in French). Ma Ville. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  9. "Mendes becomes latest Royals recruit". Reading F.C. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
  10. "Aston Villa 1-3 Reading". bbc.co.uk. BBC Sport. 15 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  11. "Joseph Mendes signe à Ajaccio" [Joseph Mendes signs for Ajaccio]. L'Équipe (in French). 2 July 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  12. "Reading FC Confirm Quinn and Mendes Exit, Jaakkola Offered New Deal". SB Nation.
  13. "Joseph Mendès : " J'ai hâte de marquer ! "" [Joseph Mendès: "I look forward to scoring!"]. Ma Ville.
  14. "DJURTUS: LISTA DE CONVOCADOS PARA O JOGO COM MOÇAMBIQUE EM BISSAU" [Djurtus: List of call-ups for the game with Mozambique in Bissau] (in Portuguese). Sou Djurtu.
  15. "Angola v Guinea-Bissau game report". National Football Teams. 8 June 2019.
  16. "FACTBOX-Soccer-Profile on Guinea Bissau team for 2019 African Cup of Nations". Reuters. 18 June 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  17. "Guinea Bissau win 1–0 in Sao Tome". African Football. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  18. "Guiné Bissau afasta São Tomé e Príncipe e vai à fase de grupos" [Guinea-Bissau knock out São Tomé and Príncipe and advance to group phase] (in Portuguese). SAPO. 10 September 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  19. "J.Mendes". soccerway.com. Soccerway. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  20. "Joseph MENDES". ligue1.com. Ligue 1. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  21. "Joseph Mendes". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
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