Playing position Height 1.77 m Role Footballer | Name Edmar de Number 8 Weight 71 kg | |
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Full name Edmar Halovskyi de Lacerda Date of birth (1980-06-16) 16 June 1980 (age 35) Place of birth Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil 1995–1997 Independente de Limeira Spouse Tetiana Halovsky (m. 2008) Current teams FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (#8 / Midfielder), Ukraine national football team (Midfielder) Similar People Marko Devic, Oleksandr Kucher, Denys Harmash | ||
Edmar Halovskyi de Lacerda (Ukrainian: Едмар Галовський де Ласерда; born 16 June 1980) often known as simply Edmar, born as Edmar de Lacerda Aparecida, is a Brazilian (until March 2011) and Ukrainian (since March 2011) footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Metalist 1925 Kharkiv.
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International
Edmar made his debut for Ukraine on 10 August 2011, in a 0–1 loss against Sweden in a friendly match at his club ground in Kharkiv, replacing Ruslan Rotan for the final 17 minutes.
On 7 June 2013, his third cap, he made his first start in a 4–0 away win over Montenegro in qualification for the following year's World Cup. Edmar was one of nine Ukrainian players on 6 September to score in their 9–0 thrashing of San Marino at the Arena Lviv in another qualifier. On 15 November, he provided the pass to team-mate Roman Zozulya for the first goal in a 2–0 victory over France, in the qualification play-off, although France won on aggregate.
Personal life
He got married on 13 December 2008 in Simferopol to Ukrainian Tetiana Halovska, a native of Simferopol Raion.
As a naturalized Ukrainian citizen, on 20 July 2014, Edmar received the agenda to the Ukrainian Army during the conflict with Russia.