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ISL champions ATK sign Portugal striker Jose Egas Branco (Zequinha)!

Defending Indian Super League champions ATK have announced the signing of experienced Portuguese forward Zequinha for the upcoming ISL – Season 4.

30 years old Setúbal-born José Egas dos Santos Branco, better known as Zequinha, started his youth career with local side Vitoria Setubal. After a decade at his local club, be moved in 2004 as a youth player to Portuguese giants FC Porto and joined their youth set-up before making it the next season to the FCP ‘B’ team.

But the breakthrough never happened and therefore in the following three seasons, Zequinha had loan spells at GD Tourizense, FC Penafiel, Gondomar SC, and Gil Vicente FC.

Thereafter he joined Portuguese Primeira Liga newcomers SC Olhanense, but again the big breakthrough did not happen, so he spend time on loan with CD Fatima.

Thereafter he left Portugal in 2011 to join Greek second Superleague side AEL 1964 FC. After a couple of seasons he joined Panthrakikos FC in the Greek Superleague, but he left them less then six months later to rejoin his childhood club Vitoria Setubal.

In 2015 he joined Porto-based FC Arouca and gained promotion to the Portuguese Primeira Liga. In early 2017 he left to join CD Nacional of Madeira. Now Zequinha leaves Europe to move to India.

ATK principal owner Sanjiv Goenka said in a statement, “I feel extremely happy to have such energy in our team. We are definitely working towards a great start with player like Zequinha coming on board.”

And Zequinha added, “Kolkata has great spirit when it comes to football. The crowd and its passion gives the drive for fantastic football. The ISL experience will add a new feather to my cap.”

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