Club Career
Born in Lisbon, Andrade made his professional debuts with hometown club C.F. Estrela da Amadora in 1997, helping it to two consecutive eighth first division places. He immediately caught the eye, and after that was on the move north, to F.C. Porto, being the club's most-used player in the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League, playing 12 times as the team reached the second group phase in the competition.
After Portugal’s unsuccessful 2002 World Cup campaign, Andrade was snapped up by Spain's Deportivo de La Coruña, in a move that cost the Galicians €12 million with the possibility of being increased to €13M (goalkeeper Nuno Espírito Santo was also part of the deal, for €3M). He appeared in only 11 La Liga games in his debut season, barred by César Martín and Moroccan Noureddine Naybet, but was an undisputed first-choice (when healthy) in the following years.
On 21 April 2004, during a Champions League semi-finals match against former team Porto, Andrade was sent off by Markus Merk for a kick on Deco. The gesture was of a friendly nature, but the referee was eluded by it, and immediately gave the defender his marching orders. He was forced to serve a one-match ban.
Andrade signed for Juventus F.C. in the 2007 summer, for approximately €10 million. In a match against A.S. Roma on 23 September, he badly broke his left kneecap and missed the rest of the 2007–08 season.
In the team's 2008 pre-season, Andrade suffered the same injury and missed the entire 2008–09. In a press release dated 7 August, Juventus stated:
"On 9 July 2008, during a training session at Pinzolo, the player Jorge Manuel Almeida Gomes de Andrade was the victim of another serious injury to his left knee (relapse of the fracture of the rotula) operated twice in the past season. A new osteosynthesis operation was thus needed, with the post-surgery prognosis being a number of months. Given the impossibility for the player to recover to play professionally, the company has proceeded to fully write down the residual book value of the player's registration rights with a negative effect on the 2007–08 financial year for €6.8 million."
That was the third in a year and the fourth left knee surgery Andrade had in his career. The Turin-based club wrote off his salary as well as part of the transfer fee for the fiscal year, though Andrade stated he hoped to return playing at the highest level.
On 8 April 2009, Juventus and Andrade reached an agreement, and the player's remaining contract was canceled, leaving him free to find another club. After being released from Juventus, he went on trial to Málaga CF, but he was not given a contract and was again free to search a new club. In early February 2010, he underwent a trial with Canadian side Toronto FC.
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