Egmar Goncalves - Citizendia

Egmar Goncalves was a professional soccer player. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered He was born in Brazil, but changed his nationality to Singaporean in 2002 in order to play for the Singapore national football team. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld Singapore The Singapore national football team is the national Football (soccer team of Singapore.

Career

In his time with Home United FC, Goncalves scored a total of 239 S.League goals in 11 S-league seasons and was the first recipient of the 100 S. Home United Football Club is a professional soccer club which plays in Singapore's S League goals award in 2001, although it was his 107 S-league goals. It was due to S-league deciding not to include the inaugural Singapore Cup goals as it was known as League Cup but backtracked on it later. He was also awarded the 200 S-league goals award in 2004. Both time, Gonclaves celebrated the milestone by notching a hat-trick, first against SAFFC in a 4-0 win and then Sinchi in a 5-1 win. The Singapore Armed Forces Football Club (SAFFC is a professional soccer club which is currently the defending champion in Singapore 's S Sinchi Football Club is a professional soccer club from China which played as a foreign team in Singapore 's S

He also won the top scorer in both Singapore's S. League and the AFC Cup in 2004, playing for Home United. The AFC Cup is an annual international association football competition between domestic clubs sides run by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC.

Goncalves returned to Brazil in January 2007 after failing to agree a new contract with Home United. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld He played for Desportiva Capixaba in Espírito Santo state and then retired. Desportiva Capixaba, usually known simply as Desportiva (or as Desportiva-ES) is a traditional Brazilian football club from Cariacica, For the Portuguese company see Espírito Santo Financial Group Espírito Santo (is Currently, Egmar Gonçalves lives in Vila Velha city, Brazil, with his wife and children. Vila Velha is a coastal town in Espírito Santo, Brazil. It lies across from Vitória, the state capital

He failed to make any impact for Singapore at international level and was one of the unsuccessful players in the foreign talent scheme endorsed by the Football Association of Singapore, although he is well remembered for scoring in the 4-2 away defeat against Iraq in the 2007 Asian Cup qualifying campaign. The Football Association of Singapore (FAS is the governing body of football in Singapore. The Iraqi national football team (منتخب العراق لكرة القدم is the national team of Iraq and is controlled by the Iraq Football Association

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