Everton Giovanella

Everton Giovanella

File:Everton Giovanella.jpg Giovanella in action for Salamanca
Personal information
Full name	Everton Giovanella
Date of birth	(1970-09-13) 13 September 1970
Place of birth	Caxias do Sul, Brazil
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1992	Lajeadense	38	(8)
1993	Internacional	12	(2)
1993–1994	Tirsense	18	(1)
1994–1995	Estoril	29	(0)
1995–1996	Belenenses	19	(3)
1996–1999	Salamanca	106	(4)
1999–2006	Celta	140	(1)
2007–2008	Coruxo	34	(0)
Total		359	(11)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Everton Giovanella (born 13 September 1970 in Caxias do Sul) is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

He was best known for tireless physical display, and played most of his professional career in Spain – one full decade – namely being an important part in Celta's domestic and European consolidation.

Football career

Having started playing with a modest club in native Brazil, Giovanella eventually signed with Série A's Sport Club Internacional in Porto Alegre, with little impact. In the 1993 summer he emigrated to Portugal, playing one season each with Primeira Liga sides F.C. Tirsense, G.D. Estoril Praia and C.F. Os Belenenses.

For the 1996–97 campaign Giovanella moved to Spain, first achieving La Liga promotion with UD Salamanca then moving to Celta de Vigo. At both teams, he reunited with former Belenenses teammate Catanha and, with the Galicians, played an important role in their domestic and European exploits, but also unluckily injured Deportivo de La Coruña's Manuel Pablo in a derby on 30 September 2001.

In December 2004 (sanction ratified in September 2005), Giovanella was banned from football for two years after testing positive for nandrolone. On 10 November 2007 he returned to football, teaming up for Tercera División side Coruxo FC.

Giovanella rejoined his very first senior club Clube Esportivo Lajeadense in the 2008 summer, as its director of football. In the following year he returned to Celta, being appointed scout in his country.

See also

• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

External links

• Everton Giovanella at footballzz.co.uk
• Everton Giovanella profile at ForaDeJogo
• Stats at Liga de Fútbol Profesional (Spanish)
• Everton Giovanella profile at BDFutbol
• Celta de Vigo biography (Spanish)

• Deportivo y Celta deleitan (Deportivo and Celta delight); Mundo Deportivo, 1 October 2001 (Spanish)
• No solution in sight for footballers fighting the system; The Guardian, 20 March 2006
• El regreso de Giovanella, en Fiebre Maldini (Giovanella's return, in Fiebre Maldini); Diario AS (Spanish)
• Giovanella, ojeador del Celta en Brasil (Giovanella, Celta scout in Brazil); Xornal, 24 September 2009 (Spanish)