Daniel da Mota

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is da Mota and the second or paternal family name is Pereira.

Daniel da Mota

Personal information
Full name	Daniel Alexandre da Mota Pereira
Date of birth	(1985-09-11) 11 September 1985
Place of birth	Ettelbrück, Luxembourg
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	F91 Dudelange
Number	9
Youth career
	FC Etzella Ettelbruck
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2001–2008	FC Etzella Ettelbruck	133	(77)
2008–	F91 Dudelange	138	(46)
International career‡
2007–	Luxembourg	55	(4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 May 2014 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 5 June 2014

Daniel Alexandre da Mota Pereira (born 11 September 1985) is a Luxembourgian football striker of Portuguese origin, who plays in Luxembourg for F91 Dudelange.

Club career

Da Mota finished the 2005–06 season of the Luxembourg National Division as the joint-sixth top goalscorer, and the second-best placed Luxembourgian footballer.

The following season, da Mota scored 24 goals (fully 40% of all of second-placed Ettelbruck's goals), finishing as the league's top goalscorer. In July 2008, he left FC Etzella Ettelbruck and moved for 65,000 Euro to F91 Dudelange.

International career

Born in Luxembourg to Portuguese parents, Da Mota took up Luxembourgian citizenship in January 2007 and made his debut for Luxembourg in a June 2007 European Championship qualification match against Albania. His first two international goals helped Luxembourg defeat Slovakia by a score of 2–1 on 9 February 2011. He scored his second international goal on 7 September 2012 in a World Cup qualifier against Portugal in a 2–1 defeat.

External links

• Roster – F91 Dudelange
• Daniel da Mota at National-Football-Teams.com