Joseph Mendes
Mendes with Le Havre in 2015 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Joseph Mendes[1] | ||
Date of birth | 30 March 1991 | ||
Place of birth | Évreux, France | ||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Ajaccio | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010–2011 | Grenoble | 13 | (1) |
2011–2012 | Épinal | 22 | (3) |
2012–2013 | Le Mans | 20 | (3) |
2012–2013 | Le Mans B | 9 | (4) |
2014 | Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 7 | (0) |
2014 | Luzenac | 0 | (0) |
2014–2016 | Le Havre | 59 | (11) |
2015 | Le Havre B | 4 | (1) |
2016–2018 | Reading | 15 | (3) |
2018– | Ajaccio | 32 | (0) |
2019– | Ajaccio B | 4 | (2) |
International career‡ | |||
2019– | Guinea-Bissau | 5 | (3) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 July 2019 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 September 2019 |
Joseph Mendes (born 30 March 1991) is a professional footballer who plays for AC Ajaccio as a forward. Born in France, Mendes represents the Guinea-Bissau national football team internationally.
Club career
Born in Évreux, Mendes began his career at Grenoble in Ligue 2. He made 14 total appearances in his only season, and scored his only goal on 17 December 2010, when he came on as an 84th-minute substitute for Yoric Ravet and wrapped up a 3–1 home win over Dijon.[2] In October 2011, he signed for Championnat National team Épinal.[3]
In 2012, Mendes returned to the second tier with Le Mans. He remained there until December 2013, when he signed an 18-month deal with Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Bulgarian A Football Group.[4] In June 2014, he returned to Ligue 2 with newly promoted club Luzenac AP,[5] who eventually were suspended from competition due to an inadequate stadium and released all of their professionals.[6] In August, he signed a three-year deal with Le Havre in the same competition.[7] He scored a career-best 9 goals in 2015–16, including two in a 3–1 win at Auxerre on 6 May 2016.[8]
On 8 July 2016, Mendes signed a two-year contract with Championship side Reading.[9] Mendes scored a brace, on his first start in a 3–1 away victory over Aston Villa on 15 April 2017.[10] He played only seven times in his second season,[11] and in May 2018 Reading decided against renewing his contract.[12]
On 2 July 2018, Mendes signed for Ligue 2 club AC Ajaccio. He joined up again with Ghislain Gimbert, his former Le Havre strike partner.[11]
International career
Born in France to a Bissau-Guinean father and a Senegalese mother,[13] Mendes was first selected to the Guinea-Bissau national football team for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification match against Namibia in November 2018.[14] He made his debut on 8 June 2019 in a friendly against Angola, as a starter,[15] and later that month was chosen for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, in which his team were eliminated from the group stage in Egypt.[16]
In September 2019, Mendes scored all of Guinea-Bissau's goals in a 3–1 aggregate win over São Tomé and Príncipe in the first round of qualification for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[17][18]
Career statistics
Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Grenoble | 2010–11 | Ligue 2 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 17 | 1 | |
SAS Épinal | 2011–12 | Championnat National | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 22 | 3 | ||
Le Mans | 2012–13 | Ligue 2 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 22 | 5 | |
Lokomotiv Plovdiv | 2013–14 | Parva Liga | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 8 | 0 | ||
Le Havre | 2014–15 | Ligue 2 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 23 | 2 | |
2015–16 | 37 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 38 | 9 | |||
Total | 59 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 61 | 11 | ||
Reading | 2016–17 | Championship | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 3 |
2017–18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 4 | 0 | |||
Total | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 3 | ||
Ajaccio | 2018–19 | Ligue 2 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 29 | 0 | |
Career total | 165 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 179 | 23 |
International goals
- Scores and results list Guinea-Bissau's goal tally first.[21]
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 10 September 2019 | Estádio 24 de Setembro, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau | ![]() |
1–1 | 2–1 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
2. | 2–1 |
References
- ^ "EFL: Club list of registered players" (PDF). English Football League. 20 May 2017. p. 34. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
- ^ "LIGUE 2/ 18e JOURNÃ?E [sic]". Le Parisien (in French). 18 December 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Mendes, dernière recrue spinalienne" [Mendes, Épinal's latest recruit]. Vosges Matin (in French). 4 October 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Football. Le Mans FC : Joseph Mendes en Bulgarie" [Football. Le Mans FC: Joseph Mendes in Bulgaria] (in French). Ma Ville. 4 December 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Joseph Mendes completes move to Luzenac". Get French Football News. 17 June 2014. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Luzenac wrongly prevented from being promoted to Ligue 2 in 2014, court decides". Get French Football News. 1 September 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Joseph Mendes joins Le Havre". Get French Football News. 23 August 2014. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Ligue 2. Le Havre s'impose à Auxerre, Laval obtient son maintien" [Ligue 2. Le Havre impose themselves on Auxerre, Laval achieve their survival] (in French). Ma Ville. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Mendes becomes latest Royals recruit". Reading F.C. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
- ^ "Aston Villa 1-3 Reading". bbc.co.uk. BBC Sport. 15 April 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ^ a b "Joseph Mendes signe à Ajaccio" [Joseph Mendes signs for Ajaccio]. L'Équipe (in French). 2 July 2018. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Reading FC Confirm Quinn and Mendes Exit, Jaakkola Offered New Deal". SB Nation.
- ^ "Joseph Mendès : " J'ai hâte de marquer ! "" [Joseph Mendès: "I look forward to scoring!"]. Ma Ville.
- ^ "DJURTUS: LISTA DE CONVOCADOS PARA O JOGO COM MOÇAMBIQUE EM BISSAU" [Djurtus: List of call-ups for the game with Mozambique in Bissau] (in Portuguese). Sou Djurtu.
- ^ "Angola v Guinea-Bissau game report". National Football Teams. 8 June 2019.
- ^ "FACTBOX-Soccer-Profile on Guinea Bissau team for 2019 African Cup of Nations". Reuters. 18 June 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Guinea Bissau win 1–0 in Sao Tome". African Football. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Guiné Bissau afasta São Tomé e Príncipe e vai à fase de grupos" [Guinea-Bissau knock out São Tomé and Príncipe and advance to group phase] (in Portuguese). SAPO. 10 September 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "J.Mendes". soccerway.com. Soccerway. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- ^ "Joseph MENDES". ligue1.com. Ligue 1. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- ^ "Joseph Mendes". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Évreux
- Association football forwards
- Bissau-Guinean footballers
- Guinea-Bissau international footballers
- French footballers
- Bissau-Guinean people of Senegalese descent
- French people of Bissau-Guinean descent
- French people of Senegalese descent
- Ligue 2 players
- Championnat National players
- Championnat National 2 players
- Championnat National 3 players
- First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
- Grenoble Foot 38 players
- SAS Épinal players
- Le Mans FC players
- PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv players
- Reading F.C. players
- AC Ajaccio players
- Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria
- Expatriate footballers in England
- French expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
- French expatriate sportspeople in England
- Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
- Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in England
- English Football League players
- Black French sportspeople
- 2019 Africa Cup of Nations players