Tony Menezes

Tony Menezes

Personal information
Full name	Anthony Santos Menezes
Date of birth	(1974-11-24) November 24, 1974
Place of birth	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Height
Position(s)	defender
Team information
Current team	Porto Alegre FC
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1998	América Rio de Janeiro
1999	Bangu Rio de Janeiro
2000–2001	Botafogo	5	(0)
2002	Gansu Nongken	19	(0)
2003	Nanjing Yoyo	17	(3)
2004	Zhejiang Lucheng	22	(4)
2006	Toronto Lynx	6	(0)
2006	SC Ulbra (RS)
2006–2007	Mahindra United
2008–	Porto Alegre FC
International career‡
1998–2003	Canada	27	(0)
1999–2008	Canada Beach Soccer	23	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17:47, 24 February 2007 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 November 2009

Anthony Santos Menezes (born November 24, 1974 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Canadian professional soccer player.

Club career

A 6'1, 180 lb (82 kg) defender, Menezes immigrated to Brazil with his family at age 10. He played for Botafogo in Rio de Janeiro until 2001, then signed with Chinese team Nanjing Yoyo. On April 19, 2006 he signed for the Toronto Lynx and played only one season.

In November 2006, he signed for defending champions Mahindra United of the Indian National Football League, after two years in India joined back to his homeland Brazil and signed in January 2008 with Porto Alegre FC.

International career

He made his debut for Canada in a May 1998 friendly match against Macedonia and earned a total of 27 caps, scoring no goals. He has represented Canada in 4 FIFA World Cup qualification matches and was a member of the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup title-winning squad. He also played with Canada at 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup in Japan. He has also played for the Beach Soccer national team from Canada.

His final international was a January 2003 friendly match against the United States.

Honours

Canada

• CONCACAF Gold Cup: 1

2000

External links

• Player profile - CanadaSoccer
• Tony Menezes at National-Football-Teams.com