Edson Nobre

Edson de Jesus Nobre, known simply as Edson, is an Angolan footballer who played mainly as a winger before retiring. Born in Benguela on 2 March 1980, he began his professional career in Portugal at the age of 19, moving through the lower-league clubs G.D. Mealhada and Anadia FC before his third-division performances for Oliveira do Bairro S.C. brought him to the Primeira Liga side F.C. Paços de Ferreira in 2005. He made his league debut against C.D. Nacional on 21 August 2005 and, in his second season, when the club reached the UEFA Cup for the first time, he scored four goals in 25 matches, though he was never an undisputed starter during his four years there. In the summer of 2009 he signed with Ethnikos Achna FC in Cyprus, a spell the source calls quite unsuccessful, and soon returned to Angola to join C.R.D. Libolo. An Angolan international from 2005, Edson was called up to the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2006 FIFA World Cup, where he played 20 minutes in the 1-0 group-stage defeat to Portugal, and he also came on as a late substitute in the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final against Egypt.