Ezequias

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Tavares and the second or paternal family name is Melo.

Ezequias Roosevelt Tavares de Melo (born 28 January 1981), known simply as Ezequias, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Independente-PA as a left back.

Ezequias

Personal information
Full name	Ezequias Roosevelt Tavares de Melo
Date of birth	(1981-01-28) 28 January 1981 (age 44)
Place of birth	Jundiaí, Brazil
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Left back
Team information
Current team	Independente-PA
Youth career
2000–2001	Corithians-AL
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2001–2005	Marítimo	60	(0)
2001–2002	Marítimo B	12	(1)
2005	→ Gil Vicente (loan)	16	(0)
2005–2006	Académica	26	(0)
2006–2008	Porto	1	(0)
2007	→ Beira-Mar (loan)	8	(0)
2007–2008	→ Leixões (loan)	25	(0)
2008–2010	Braşov	50	(1)
2010–2012	Rapid București	35	(0)
2013	Corithians-AL
2014	Santa Cruz-PA
2015–2016	Independente-PA	6	(1)
2016	Águia Marabá	5	(0)
2017	Independente-PA	12	(0)
2017	Trem	2	(0)
2018–	Independente-PA	18	(1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 13 November 2020

He played for several teams during his professional career, in Brazil, Portugal and Romania.

Football career

Born in Jundiaí, São Paulo, Ezequias started playing football with lowly Sport Club Corinthians Alagoano. He would then spend the following seven seasons in Portugal, with C.S. Marítimo – where he arrived in 2001 alongside Pepe, later of FC Porto, Real Madrid and the Portugal national team fame – Gil Vicente FC, Académica de Coimbra, Porto, S.C. Beira-Mar^[1] and Leixões SC,^[2] the latter two loaned by the Primeira Liga club after being unable to impress (only one league appearance, a 1–2 away loss against S.C. Braga^[3]).

In the middle of 2008, Ezequias was finally released by Porto and signed with Romania's FC Brașov. Two years later, after two seasons as first-choice, he moved to another team in that country and its Liga I, FC Rapid București.

Personal life

For reasons unknown to him, Ezequias' second name was an homage to American president Franklin D. Roosevelt.^[4]