Catanha

Catanha

Personal information
Full name	Henrique Guedes da Silva
Date of birth	(1972-03-06) 6 March 1972
Place of birth	Recife, Brazil
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Sport Atalaia
Youth career
	Fluminense
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1992	São Cristóvão
1992–1993	União São João
1993–1995	CSA	53	(32)
1995	Paysandu
1995–1996	Belenenses	13	(12)
1996–1998	Salamanca	13	(1)
1997–1998	→ Leganés (loan)	34	(14)
1998–2000	Málaga	73	(49)
2000–2004	Celta	115	(37)
2004	→ Krylia Sovetov (loan)	11	(1)
2005	Belenenses	8	(0)
2005	Marília	8	(4)
2005	Atlético Mineiro	17	(5)
2006–2008	Linares	69	(26)
2008–2010	Estepona	48	(23)
2010	Corinthians-AL	0	(0)
2010–2011	CSA	7	(3)
2012–	Sport Atalaia	0	(0)
International career
2000	Spain	3	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 June 2012

Henrique Guedes da Silva, aka Catanha (born 6 March 1972), is a Brazilian-born Spanish footballer who plays for Sport Clube Santo Antônio as a striker.

He played almost exclusively for modest clubs in his country (seven teams in total), safe for a brief spell with Atlético Mineiro. Over the course of 12 seasons he competed in Spain, most notably with Celta, amassing La Liga totals of 148 games and 62 goals in five years.

Catanha represented the Spanish national team on three occasions in the 2000s.

Club career

Catanha was born in Recife. After having played with modest clubs in his native country, he arrived in 1995 in Portugal to play for C.F. Os Belenenses, teaming up with countryman Everton Giovanella with whom he would later play in two clubs in Spain; there, he started competing in the second division, with UD Salamanca and CD Leganés.

Moving to Málaga CF in 1998–99, Catanha contributed with 26 goals to the Andalusia outfit's La Liga promotion (winning the Pichichi Trophy). He scored a further 24 in 1999–2000's top flight, tied for second with Atlético Madrid's Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

Catanha joined Celta de Vigo in July 2000, being an instrumental part of the Galician side's domestic and European exploits in a three-year span. However, when Celta played UEFA Champions League in 2003–04, he only backed up Savo Milošević, and Celta was also relegated.

After that Catanha went pretty much unnoticed, representing FC Krylia Sovetov Samara, Belenenses, Marília Atlético Clube and Clube Atlético Mineiro. In January 2006 he returned to Spain, playing with modest teams CD Linares (third level, two 1/2 seasons) and Unión Estepona CF (division four).

In early 2010, aged nearly 38, Catanha returned to his nation of birth, resuming his career in the lower leagues.

International career

Catanha gained three caps for the Spanish national team (all in 2000), despite being born in Brazil. His debut came on 7 October 2000, in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Israel (2–0 home win).

Catanha is one of only four black or mixed-race players to have played for Spain, along with Donato, Vicente Engonga and Marcos Senna, though only Engonga was Spanish-born (the first and third also hail from the South American country).

External links

• Template:Zerozero profile
• Stats at ForaDeJogo
• BDFutbol profile
• National team data
• Catanha at National-Football-Teams.com
• Catanha – FIFA competition record (archived)