Pauleta

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This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Carreiro and the second or paternal family name is Resendes.

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Pauleta
Pauleta in 2011
Pauleta in 2011
Personal information
Full name Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes
Date of birth (1973-04-28) 28 April 1973 (age 50)
Place of birth Ponta Delgada, Portugal
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Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1988–1989 Santa Clara
1989–1990 Porto
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1992 Santa Clara
1992–1994 Operário
1994 Angrense
1995 Micaelense 23 (11)
1995–1996 Estoril 29 (18)
1996–1998 Salamanca 71 (34)
1998–2000 Deportivo La Coruña 58 (18)
2000–2003 Bordeaux 98 (65)
2003–2008 Paris Saint-Germain 168 (76)
2010–2011 São Roque 2 (4)
Total 449 (226)
International career
1996 Portugal U21 1 (0)
1997–2006 Portugal 88 (47)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes, ComM, OIH, (born 28 April 1973), known as Pauleta (Portuguese pronunciation: [pawˈletɐ]), is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a striker.

During 18 years as a senior, he never played in the Primeira Liga, having spent twelve of those campaigns in Spain and France. He had his most successful spell at Paris Saint-Germain, where he scored 109 goals across all competitions. Three times the top goalscorer in Ligue 1, he was also voted twice as the division's player of the season.

Pauleta also scored 47 goals in 88 matches for Portugal, a national record at the time of his retirement. He played for his country in two World Cups and two European Championships.

Club career

Early years / Spain

Born in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island in the Azores, Pauleta started his career at youth level playing for local clubs in his native island, before turning professional in the lower leagues. He was part of FC Porto's youth team for a brief stint, but left soon due to homesickness, signing his first professional contract with Clube União Micaelense in 1994 and spending one year there. He then moved to second division's G.D. Estoril Praia in 1995, helping his team to the 12th position in his first and only season.

The goals continued to flow following a switch to Spanish second level side UD Salamanca in 1996, with Pauleta scoring 19 goals as it gained promotion to La Liga in the following year, adding a further 15 in his first season in the top flight.[1] That rate earned him a move to Deportivo de La Coruña, in the 1998 summer.

Pauleta scored his first goal in European competition in the 1999–2000 UEFA Cup, netting in a 3–1 home win against Montpellier HSC[2] and repeating the feat in the second leg (2–0).[3] On 22 November 1999 he netted a hat-trick for Depor in a home fixture against Sevilla FC,[4] going on to enjoy a two-year spell with the Galicians which included 33 goals in 92 official matches, including eight from 12 starts as the club won its first league championship title in 2000.

Bordeaux

On 1 September 2000, after being tracked by the likes of Newcastle United, Aston Villa and Sunderland, Pauleta joined FC Girondins de Bordeaux in France, reportedly for financial and family reasons.[5] He scored three as his new club crushed FC Nantes 5–0 in an away match,[6][7] and some days later, on 26 September, did the same in a UEFA Cup first round match against Lierse SK, with his team qualifying for the next round;[8] he enjoyed an impressive run in his first season, ending it as the club's top scorer with 26 goals in all competitions,[9] and the Ligue 1's second leading scorer with 20.

In the 2001–02 campaign, Pauleta was the league's top scorer with 22 goals. He also was the club's leading scorer in all competitions with 35 goals – a record.[10] Subsequently, he was voted the best player in the French first division, and was also awarded the 'Oscar of football' by fellow players and coaches,[11] and was named one of the 50 players shortlisted for the 2002 European Footballer of the Year award (Ballon d'Or), with only another player from the French League in the list.[12] In the same season, Pauleta also won the French League Cup, being instrumental to the success scoring two goals in the final.[13][14] After his great performances, Manchester City's manager Kevin Keegan expressed an interest in the striker, but Bordeaux's chairman Jean-Louis Triaud said that, initially, they were not interested in the transfer, showing that Pauleta could be for sale only in the right circumstances.[15]

In the 2002–03 season Pauleta proved himself another time, scoring 23 league goals and 30 all competitions comprised. For the second time he won the title for the best player in the top category, and was also named in the French League team of the year. In total, he registered 65 league goals in 98 games and 91 in 130 matches in all competitions for Bordeaux,[16] ranking third all-time upon his departure.[17]

Paris Saint-Germain

Pauleta in action for PSG at the Emirates Cup in July 2007, finding space around Denílson of Arsenal

Pauleta joined Paris Saint-Germain F.C. ahead of 2003–04, signing a three-year contract in a reported €12 million transfer deal.[18] He helped the capital side to its first silverware in six years by scoring the only goal of the 2004 French Cup final against LB Châteauroux, and continued with his goal scoring exploits in the league, netting 18 times in 37 contests as PSG finished the league in second place.

On 2 April 2006, Pauleta scored his first hat-trick for Paris Saint-Germain against former club Bordeaux, as the home side won 3–1.[19] Despite reported interest from defending French champions Olympique Lyonnais, Pauleta stayed at Paris-Saint Germain to help them clinch the 2006 French Cup. He scored his 99th and 100th overall goals for PSG in heroic fashion, off a fantastic volley and a textbook header respectively.[20]

After the 2007–08 season, as PSG faced relegation until the very last matchday (eventually reaching safety at 16th), Pauleta retired from football after his last match on 17 May 2008, with the possible exception being if any of the Big three (S.L. Benfica, Sporting Clube de Portugal and Porto) in Portugal came calling, which they did not.[21] He retired at 35 without having played one game in Portugal's main division, subsequently staying at PSG but in an ambassadorial role;[22] he remained the team's top scorer of all time with 109 goals in 211 matches, until the record was broken by Zlatan Ibrahimović in October 2015.[23]

In late May 2009 Pauleta played his farewell match, at the Parc des Princes, playing one half each with a team of friends and PSG – former and current – players. His son André, 13, replaced him at the end of the game and scored the final two goals.[24]

Pauleta returned to football at the age of 37, joining amateurs Grupo Desportivo São Roque in the Azores' regional leagues. He retired for good in June 2011.

International career

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See also: List of international goals scored by Pauleta

Pauleta was the first Portuguese national team player to never have played in the Portuguese first division when he made his international debut against Armenia, in August 1997. He would have to wait 18 months for his first national team start, against the Netherlands. His first goals came a month later, when he scored two in a 7–0 rout of Azerbaijan in a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier, on 26 March 1999.[25]

A substitute at the Euro 2000 tournament, Pauleta led the Portuguese attack at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, scoring a hat-trick against Poland[26] and ending with that tally in as many games, as the nation was ousted in the group stage. On 19 November 2003, he scored four goals in an 8–0 friendly win over Kuwait in Leiria.[27]

Although he played all but one game on the road to the final of Euro 2004, Pauleta did not score in that tournament finals. After the competition, with the international retirements of Fernando Couto, Luís Figo and Rui Costa, Pauleta was made captain,[28] a role he held until Figo's return. However, he sporadically played as skipper in the latter's absence, including a 2–0 win over Egypt at the Estádio de São Miguel in his hometown on 17 August 2005.[29] On 12 October, against Latvia, he netted twice to became the national team's all-time goal scoring leader, surpassing Eusébio's previous record of 41.[30][31]

During the 2006 World Cup qualifying campaign, Pauleta was the European zone's top scorer and, in a friendly match against Cape Verde in May 2006 preluding the final stages, he showed great form as he netted three times in a 4–1 win. However, after scoring the side's first goal in the group stage match against Angola,[32] he failed to find the net again during the tournament; after Portugal's defeat to Germany in the third place play-off, he announced his international retirement.

Personal life

Pauleta's goal celebration of spreading his arms like wings earned him the nickname The Birdman of the Açores. In November 2005, he signed to become a FIFA ambassador for the SOS Children's Villages, the first Portuguese to do so.[33]

Statistics

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Club

Club League Season League Cup League Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Estoril Segunda Liga 1995–96 29 18 - -
Total 29 18 - -
Salamanca Segunda División 1996–97 37 19 3 0 - - 40 19
La Liga 1997–98 34 15 1 0 - - 35 15
Total 71 34 4 0 - - 75 34
Deportivo La Liga 1998–99 28 10 9 1 - - 37 11
1999–2000 30 8 3 0 - 7 3 40 11
Total 58 18 12 1 - 7 3 77 22
Bordeaux Ligue 1 2000–01 28 20 1 3 1 0 7 3 37 26
2001–02 33 22 2 4 4 4 6 5 45 35
2002–03 37 23 5 5 2 1 4 1 48 30
Total 98 65 8 12 7 5 17 9 130 91
Paris SG Ligue 1 2003–04 37 18 6 5 0 0 - 43 23
2004–05 35 14 3 4 0 0 6 1 45 19
2005–06 36 21 6 5 2 2 - 44 28
2006–07 33 15 3 1 1 2 9 6 46 24
2007–08 27 8 2 1 5 6 - 34 15
Total 168 76 20 16 9 10 15 7 212 109
Career total 424 211 44 29 16 15 39 19 523 274

International

[25]

National Team Year Friendlies International
Competition		 Total Goals per match
App Goals App Goals App  Goals
Portugal 1997 0 0 3 0 3 0 0
1998 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
1999 2 1 5 2 7 3 0.429
2000 5 1 4 1 9 2 0.222
2001 3 0 7 7 10 7 0.7
2002 8 4 3 3 11 7 0.636
2003 12 8 0 0 12 8 0.667
2004 4 3 10 6 14 9 0.643
2005 5 2 7 5 12 7 0.583
2006 3 3 6 1 9 4 0.444
Total 43 22 45 25 88 47 0.534

Honours

Club

Deportivo
Bordeaux
Paris Saint-Germain

Country

Portugal

Individual

Orders

References

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  7. ↑ Season 2000/2001 French League Week 6 – Match Stats, French League's website
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  9. ↑ 2000–01 Bordeaux's Top Scorers; Scapulaire
  10. ↑ 2001–02 Bordeaux's Top Scorers; Scapulaire
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  14. ↑ Season 2001/2002 League Cup Final – Match Stats; French League's website
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  16. ↑ Pedro Pauleta – 2002–03 Stats; French League's website
  17. ↑ Bordeaux's all time goalscorers; Scapulaire
  18. ↑ Pauleta prize for PSG; UEFA.com, 10 July 2003
  19. ↑ Pauleta punishes former friends; UEFA.com, 3 April 2006
  20. ↑ Hundred up for Pauleta; UEFA.com, 2 November 2007
  21. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  22. ↑ Retired Pauleta returns to PSG; UEFA.com, 21 November 2008
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  24. ↑ Résumé du jubilé de Pauleta (Pauleta's testimonial sumup); PSG en Force, 31 May 2009 (French)
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  26. ↑ Portugal back on track; BBC Sport, 10 June 2002
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  31. ↑ Pauleta dethrones "The King"; UEFA.com, 13 October 2005
  32. ↑ Winning start satisfies Scolari; BBC Sport, 11 June 2006
  33. ↑ SOS Children's Villages – Portugal: Pedro Pauleta
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