Adriano Tomás Custodio Mendes

Adriano Tomaz Custódio Mendes is a Cape Verdean former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in the Portuguese Cape Verde, thus holding Portuguese nationality at the time, he moved to Lisbon at age 8 and emigrated to Argentina at 12. before Cape Verde became independent from Portugal, and became a naturalized Argentine citizen. Custódio Mendes played for clubs in Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, Chile, Bolivia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay and Venezuela. Already retired, he visited now-independent Cape Verde for the first time in 2015, 42 years after leaving the islands, and the last time in 2017.