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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Vanderlei Fernandes Silva | |
| Date of birth | July 14 1975 | |
| Place of birth | São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club |  Sporting C.P. |
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| Number | 11 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1999-2000 2002-2005 2005-2007 2007 2007- |
UD Leiria FC Porto FC Dynamo Moscow SL BenficaSporting C.P. |
91 (42) 57 (20) 41 (20) 12 (1) 3 (1) |
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Vanderlei Fernandes Silva, simply known as Derlei (born July 14, 1975 in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil) is a Brazilian-Portuguese football (soccer) player. He currently plays for Portuguese team Sporting C.P., signing after being free from his contract with Dynamo Moscow for two more seasons. He started playing in the lower levels of football in Brazil but soon joined the U.D. Leiria reserves but after a successful trial he made the first team playing 91 games and scoring 42 goals. Derlei joined FC Porto in the summer of 2002 from UD Leiria. He was a big part of José Mourinho's Futebol Clube do Porto hugely successful squad, since he was one of its top scorers. He scored twice for Porto in the 2003 UEFA Cup Final. In January 2005, after disciplinary problems related to his lateness in arriving from the winter break, subsequently he was sold to Dynamo Moscow for 7 million euros. He was recently granted Portuguese citizenship. After two years of Russian football where he was always one of the top five best goalscorers he left for Benfica, a rival in the south of former club FC Porto, many claim that he was against FC Porto's President Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa and joined rivals Benfica where he is now seen as a traitor a similar feat of former Benfica player now Porto Player Tomislav Šokota . Derlei was nicknamed NINJA at Futebol Clube do Porto. On February 2, 2007 he played his first Superliga match for Benfica against Boavista F.C. In June of 2007, he left Benfica for their number 1 rivals Sporting Clube de Portugal, signing a contract that lasts until 2009.
Playing career
2007-2008 Sporting 2006-2007 Benfica 2006 Dinamo Moscow (18/7)
2005 Dinamo Moscow (23/13)
2004-05 Porto (13/0)
2003-04 Porto (18/13)
2002-03 Porto (26/7)
2001-02 Uniao Leiria (33/21)
2000-01 Uniao Leiria (32/13)
1999-00 Uniao Leiria (26/8)
1998-99 Madureira
1998-98 Guarani
1997-97 Guarani
1996-96 America (RN)
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1 Patrício • 2 da Silva • 3 Had • 4 Polga • 5 Paredes • 6 A.Silva • 7 Izmailov • 8 Ronny • 9 Purović • 10 Vukčević • 11 Derlei • 13 Tonel • 16 Tiago • 19 Paéz • 20 Yannick • 21 P. Farnerud • 24 M. Veloso • 25 Pereirinha • 26 Gladstone • 28 Moutinho • 30 Romagnoli • 31 Liédson • 34 Stojković • 44 Renato • 78 Abel • 88 Celsinho • Manager: P. Bento |
