VIDEO: KCCA raid Brazil, unveil 21 year-old forward

Joao Gabriel joined KCCA FC on a two year deal | KCCA FC image

FOOTBALL VIDEO: KCCA raid Brazil, unveil 21 year-old forward

Allan Damba • 20:38 - 15.07.2023

Cardoso has previously featured for both the U-17 and U-20 sides of Brazil where according to Transfermarket, he played a game apiece.

Thirteen-time Uganda Premier League champions KCCA FC have, like their nemesis Vipers SC, raided Brazil for a bit of South American blood.

The Kasasiro Boys have announced and unveiled young Brazilian, Joao Gabriel Estevez Cardoso.

Cardoso has previously featured for both the U-17 and U-20 sides of Brazil where according to Transfermarket, he played a game apiece.

The new signing, is a 21 year-old attacker who has previously featured for the U-20 side of Flamengo between 2019-2020.

According to playmakerstats.com, he bagged one goal in 11 appearances in 2019 for the team, while in 2020, he netted thrice in 10 games.

He also played for Germany sixth-tier outfit FCA Damstadt between 2022 to March 2023.

The same site asserts that Cardoso last featured for Cabofriense in Brazil this year.

He is a born of Brazil's capital, Rio de Janeiro on 21st August, 2001 to former Brazilian midfielder, Lè, who is currently 44.

He becomes the third Brazilian football in the country after Vipers' Giancarlo Lopez Rodriguez and Luiz Otavio Santos de Araujo alias Tinga.