Vítor Valente
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Vítor Sérgio dos Santos Valente | ||
| Date of birth | 17 March 1965 | ||
| Place of birth | Lisbon, Portugal | ||
| Height | Script error: No such module "person height". | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1978–1980 | Oeiras | ||
| 1980–1981 | Sporting CP | ||
| 1981–1983 | Benfica | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1983–1984 | Trafaria | ||
| 1984–1985 | Casa Pia | ||
| 1985–1986 | Atlético | ||
| 1986–1987 | Marítimo | 14 | (0) |
| 1987–1989 | Académica | 15 | (0) |
| 1990–1991 | União Madeira | 45 | (0) |
| 1991–1993 | Porto | 2 | (0) |
| 1993–1995 | Boavista | 1 | (0) |
| 1995–1998 | Belenenses | 45 | (0) |
| 1998–1999 | Alverca | 4 | (0) |
| 1999–2002 | Académica | 15 | (0) |
| 2002–2003 | Imortal | 17 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Pampilhosa | 5 | (0) |
| Total | 163 | (0) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Vítor Sérgio dos Santos Valente (born 13 March 1965) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Football career
After beginning in the lower leagues, Valente made his top division debuts in the 1986–87 season, appearing in 14 league games for a final 13th position. He spent three of the following four years also in the top flight, in representation of Académica de Coimbra and C.F. União.
In 1991, one year after the club lost Zé Beto in a car accident, FC Porto bought Valente to act as backup to future club legend Vítor Baía, and he ended up appearing in only two matches in his two season-spell with the team, totalling 13 minutes in two substitute appearances; he met the same fate at his next club, Boavista FC.
After three seasons with C.F. Os Belenenses (top division, starting in his last year), 32-year-old Valente signed for F.C. Alverca in the same level, being understudy to Paulo Santos. He then returned to former side Académica, with the Students now competing in division two.
Valente retired from football at the age of 39, after two years with amateurs Imortal DC in Albufeira, Algarve. Subsequently, he worked as a goalkeeper coach at U.D. Leiria and the Burkina Faso, Gabon national teams and Club Sportif Sfaxien, always under countryman Paulo Duarte.
External links
- Vítor Valente at footballzz.co.uk
- Vítor Valente profile at ForaDeJogo
- Pages using infobox football biography with height issues
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Lisbon
- Portuguese footballers
- Association football goalkeepers
- Primeira Liga players
- Segunda Liga players
- Portuguese Second Division players
- Casa Pia A.C. players
- Atlético CP players
- C.S. Marítimo players
- Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. players
- C.F. União players
- FC Porto players
- Boavista F.C. players
- C.F. Os Belenenses players
- FC Alverca players
- Imortal DC players
- FC Pampilhosa players
