Jose Veiga

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Jose Veiga

Full name	Jose Manuel Monteiro Da Veiga
Date of birth	December 18, 1976 (age 30)
Place of birth	Lisbon, Portugal
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Tamworth
Number	1
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1996-1998 1998–2002 2002-2005 2005-2006 2006-	S.L. Benfica Levante UD C.F. Estrela da Amadora S.C. Olhanense Tamworth	47 (0) 92 (0) 92 (0) 2 (0) 11 (0)
National team
2004-	Cape Verde	? (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:54, 18 February 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Jose Veiga, full name Jose Manuel Monteiro Da Veiga, (born December 18, 1976 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese born Cape Verdean football player currently playing as a goalkeeper for Tamworth in the Nationwide Conference.

Jose had trials at Tamworth in the 2006/07 pre-season but had to wait for international clearance before boss Mark Cooper could bring him to The Lamb.

He has spent much of his career in his home land with S.L. Benfica, C.F. Estrela da Amadora and a brief stint with S.C. Olhanense and had a long spell in neighbouring Spain with Levante UD. In more recent times his desperation to play in England has seen him train with Walsall and Bury. He is apparently attracting a lot of interest from league clubs ^[1].

He is one of two English based members in the current Cape Verde international football team, the other is Southampton defender Pedro Pelé, but in recent times Veiga was left out of the squad for the CAN 2008 qualifying match against Algeria on March 24, 2007 in favour of Ernesto Soares.

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^ Veiga makes most of life with the Lambs

[edit] External links

Jose Veiga career stats at Soccerbase

Tamworth F.C. - Current Squad
1 Veiga \| 2 Smith \| 3 Touhy \| 4 Bampton \| 5 Bains \| 6 Friars \| 7 Ujah \| 8 Storer \| 9 Burton \| 10 Stevenson \| 11 Williams \| 12 Quistin \| 14 Law \| 15 Imrie \| 18 Edwards \| 19 Ridgway \| 20 Taylor \| 22 Briscoe \| 23 Weaver \| 24 McGrath \| 25 Hambleton \| 26 Spencer \| 27 Keen \| 29 Atieno \| 31 Heslop \| -— Lynch \| —- Jackson \| Manager: Mills