Danny
Personal information
Full name	Daniel Miguel Alves Gomes
Date of birth	August 7, 1983 (1983-08-07) (age 26)
Place of birth	Caracas, Venezuela
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Attacking Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Zenit St. Petersburg
Number	10
Youth career
1999–2001	Marítimo
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2001–2002 2002–2004 2003–2004 2005–2008 2008–	Marítimo Sporting CP → Marítimo (loan) Dynamo Moscow Zenit St. Petersburg	10 0(5) 12 0(0) 22 0(1) 97 (17) 18 0(5)
National team2
2003–2006 2008–	Portugal U21 Portugal	08 0(1)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14:35, 10 May 2009 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 11 September 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

This is a Portuguese name; the first family name is Alves and the second is Gomes.

Daniel Miguel Alves Gomes (born 7 August 1983 in Caracas), commonly known as just Danny, is a Venezuelan-born Portuguese footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Zenit Saint Petersburg in the Russian Premier League.

Danny is also a member of the Portuguese national team.

[edit] Club career

Born into a Portuguese family, Danny moved to the island of Madeira at a young age from Caracas, Venezuela. There he would developed his football skills in the youth teams of Marítimo, making his breakthrough into the first team at the end of the 2001-02 season, scoring five goals in 10 games.

Having signed to Portuguese Liga powerhouse Sporting Clube de Portugal for €2.1 million after that sole season, Danny was immediately loaned back to Marítimo, returning in June 2004. On February 2005, he joined Russia's Dynamo Moscow, a club that was signing a large number of Portuguese and Portugal-based players at the time (namely Maniche and Derlei). He would eventually be the one with the most success in Russia, being awarded the best Dynamo player of the 2005 season.

On 24 August 2008, Danny was bought by Zenit St. Petersburg for a fee of €30 million, which made him the most expensive player of the Russian League.^[1] He made his club debut in the 2008 UEFA Super Cup game against Manchester United, where he scored the winning goal, later being named Man of the Match in a 2-1 final win.^[2] As Zenit finished the season in fifth place, Danny contributed with ten league goals, the competition's second-best.

[edit] International career

Danny and Christian Poulsen challenge for the ball during Portugal 2-3 defeat to Denmark on 10 September 2008.

On 20 August 2008, Danny made his debut for Portugal in a friendly against Faroe Islands, a 5-0 home win.

Previously, he appeared with the nation at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, while also playing regularly with the under-21s.

[edit] Club statistics

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• (English) Profile at the official FC Zenit St. Petersburg website
• (Russian) Profile at the official Russian Premier League website
• Stats and profile at Zerozero
• PortuGOAL profile

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