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{{short description|Bissau-Guinean footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Ednilson
| image = 
| fullname = Ednilson Pedro Rocha Andrade Mendes
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|09|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Bissau]], Guinea-Bissau
| height = {{height|m=1.71|precision=0}}
| position = [[Midfielder#Defensive midfielder|Defensive midfielder]]
| youthyears1 = 1993–1999 | youthclubs1 = [[Boavista F.C.|Boavista]]
| youthyears2 = 1999–2000 | youthclubs2 = [[AS Roma|Roma]]
| years1 = 2000–2001 | clubs1 = [[AS Roma|Roma]] | caps1 = 1 | goals1 = 0
| years2 = 2001–2005 | clubs2 = [[S.L. Benfica|Benfica]] | caps2 = 43 | goals2 = 0
| years3 = 2003–2004 | clubs3 = → [[Vitória S.C.|Vitória Guimarães]] (loan) | caps3 = 8 | goals3 = 0
| years4 = 2004–2005 | clubs4 = → [[Gil Vicente F.C.|Gil Vicente]] (loan) | caps4 = 20 | goals4 = 0
| years5 = 2006–2007 | clubs5 = [[OFI Crete F.C.|OFI]] | caps5 = 17 | goals5 = 0
| years6 = 2008 | clubs6 = [[FK Partizan|Partizan]] | caps6 = 14 | goals6 = 0
| years7 = 2008–2009 | clubs7 = [[AEK Larnaca FC|AEK Larnaca]] | caps7 = 5 | goals7 = 0
| years8 = 2009–2012 | clubs8 = [[FC Dinamo Tbilisi|Dinamo Tbilisi]] | caps8 = 34 | goals8 = 0
| years9 = 2012 | clubs9 = [[Vasas SC|Vasas]] | caps9 = 0 | goals9 = 0
| totalcaps = 142 | totalgoals = 0
| nationalyears1 = 2000–2003 | nationalteam1 = [[Portugal national under-21 football team|Portugal U21]] | nationalcaps1 = 26 | nationalgoals1 = 2
| nationalyears2 = 2010–2011 | nationalteam2 = [[Guinea-Bissau national football team|Guinea-Bissau]] | nationalcaps2 = 3 | nationalgoals2 = 0
| nationalteam-update =
| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport|Men's [[Association football|football]]}}
{{medal|Country|{{fb|POR}}}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[UEFA European Under-17 Championship]]|}}
{{Medal|W|[[1996 UEFA European Under-16 Championship|1996 Austria]]|}}
}}

'''Ednilson Pedro Rocha Andrade Mendes''' (born 25 September 1982), known simply as '''Ednilson''', is a Bissau-Guinean former [[Association football|footballer]] who played as a [[Midfielder#Defensive midfielder|defensive midfielder]].

==Club career==
Ednilson was born in [[Bissau]], [[Guinea-Bissau]], moving to [[Portugal]] at an early age. Not yet 17, he was bought by Italy's [[AS Roma]], but in January 2001 moved to [[F.C. Alverca]] for 618 million [[Italian lira|lire]],<ref>AS Roma SpA Report and Accounts on 30 June 2001 (in Italian)</ref> after he refused to extend his initial contract.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.asromacalcio.it/sito-ufficiale/news/articolo315.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020329012111/http://www.asromacalcio.it/sito-ufficiale/news/articolo315.html|title=Ednilson ceduto all'Alverca|trans-title=Ednilson sold to Alverca|publisher=A.S. Roma|language=Italian|date=13 January 2001|archivedate=29 March 2002|accessdate=1 April 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> Without no official appearances, he was sold to [[S.L. Benfica]].

With the [[Lisbon]] club, Ednilson was relatively used during two seasons, after which he was loaned to fellow [[Primeira Liga]] sides [[Vitória S.C.]] and [[Gil Vicente F.C.|Gil Vicente FC]], playing with the latter precisely as Benfica [[2004–05 Primeira Liga|won the national league after 11 years]]. After almost two years at [[OFI Crete F.C.|OFI]] (17 matches in total) he spent some months without a club, after which he rejoined countryman [[Almami Moreira]] at [[FK Partizan]] – both were youth graduates at [[Boavista F.C.|Boavista FC]] – helping the [[Belgrade]] team to [[Double (association football)|the double]] in his short spell.

Ednilson then played one year in [[Cyprus]] with [[AEK Larnaca FC]]. On 27 November 2009, he signed a {{frac|1|1|2}}-year contract with [[FC Dinamo Tbilisi]].<ref>[http://fcdinamo.ge/index.php?act=news&id=383&lang=ge ედნილსონი დინამოელია]; Dinamo Tbilisi, 27 November 2009 (in Georgian)</ref>

On 21 February 2012, Ednilson changed clubs and countries once again, signing for [[Vasas SC]] in [[Budapest]] for five months. He was released at the end of [[2011–12 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|the campaign (which ended in relegation)]], with no official appearances to his credit.

==Club statistics==
<ref>{{cite news|url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/ednilson-pedro-rocha-andrade-mendes/71098/|title=Ednilson|publisher=Soccerway|accessdate=1 October 2014}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
!Season!!Team!!Country!!Division!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|1999–00||align="left"|[[AS Roma|Roma]]||align="left"|{{ITA}}||1||1||0
|-
|2000–01||align="left"|[[S.L. Benfica|Benfica]]||align="left"|{{POR}}||1||13||0
|-
|2001–02||align="left"|[[S.L. Benfica|Benfica]]||align="left"|{{POR}}||1||22||0
|-
|2002–03||align="left"|[[S.L. Benfica|Benfica]]||align="left"|{{POR}}||1||8||0
|-
|2003–04||align="left"|[[Vitória S.C.|Vitória Guimarães]]||align="left"|{{POR}}||1||8||0
|-
|2004–05||align="left"|[[Gil Vicente F.C.|Gil Vicente]]||align="left"|{{POR}}||1||20||0
|-
|2005–06||align="left"|[[OFI Crete F.C.|OFI]]||align="left"|{{GRE}}||1||4||0
|-
|2006–07||align="left"|[[OFI Crete F.C.|OFI]]||align="left"|{{GRE}}||1||13||0
|-
|2007–08||align="left"|[[FK Partizan|Partizan]]||align="left"|{{SRB}}||1||14||0
|-
|2008–09||align="left"|[[AEK Larnaca FC|AEK Larnaca]]||align="left"|{{CYP}}||1||5||0
|-
|2009–10||align="left"|[[FC Dinamo Tbilisi|Dinamo Tbilisi]]||align="left"|{{GEO}}||1||29||0
|}

==International career==
After having represented Portugal at [[Portugal national under-21 football team|U21 level]] between 2000 and 2003, Ednilson accepted the calls of his country of birth, Guinea-Bissau, when their [[Guinea-Bissau national football team|national team]] was resurrected in 2010, after three years of inactivity. Ednilson made 3 appearances between 2010 and 2011 for Guinea-Bissau.<ref>{{NFT player|40252}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*{{NFT player|40252}}

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[[Category:Footballers from Bissau]]
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