Alhandra (footballer)

Alhandra
Personal information
Full name	Luís Miguel Assunção Joaquim
Date of birth	5 March 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth	Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal
Height	Script error: No such module "person height".
Position(s)	Left back
Youth career
1987–1989	Alhandra
1989–1998	Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years	Team
1998–1999	Sporting CP
1998–1999	→ Lourinhanense (loan)
1999–2000	Alverca
2000	Porto B
2001–2002	Académica
2002–2008	União Leiria
2008–2009	Enosis Neon
2009–2010	Gil Vicente
2010–2011	Eléctrico
2011	Monsanto
2012	Riachense
Total
International career
2000–2002	Portugal U21
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Luís Miguel Assunção Joaquim (born 5 March 1979 in Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon), known as Alhandra, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played mainly as a left back – he could also appear as a midfielder.

Football career

An unsuccessful graduate of Sporting Clube de Portugal's youth ranks, Alhandra started professionally with its feeder club, Sporting Clube Lourinhanense. After a brief spell with FC Porto's reserves he lived his most steady period with U.D. Leiria, helping the side to participations in the UEFA Intertoto Cup and being regularly used over the course of six top division seasons (a maximum of 30 league games in 2005–06 and a minimum of 16 in 2007–08, with the latter campaign ending in relegation).

On 2 April 2008 Alhandra signed a two-year contract with Enosis Neon Paralimni FC, adding to the massive Portuguese contingent at the Cypriot club. After one sole season he returned to Portugal, joining second level team Gil Vicente F.C. and being released at the end of the campaign.

Subsequently Alhandra resumed his career in the lower leagues of his country, retiring in 2012 at the age of 33.