João Tomás

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João Tomás

Full name	João Henrique Pataco Tomás
Date of birth	May 27, 1975 (1975-05-27) (age 33)
Place of birth	Oliveira do Bairro, Portugal
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Sporting Braga
Number	9
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1993-1996 1996-2000 2000-2001 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2006 2006-2007 2007 2007-	Anadia FC Académica de Comibra Benfica Real Betis Vitória de Guimarães (loan) Sporting Braga Al-Arabi Al-Rayyan Sporting Braga	- (-) 81 (28) 41 (19) 32 (7) 15 (3) 59 (30) 17 (8) 9 (8) 10 (1)
National team²
2000-2007	Portugal	4 (1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 11, 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of May 11, 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

João Henrique Pataco Tomás (born on 27 May 1975, in Oliveira do Bairro, Portugal) is a Portuguese footballer, playing as a striker for Portugal's SC Braga. He has been one of Portugal’s most consistent strikers over the past decade, with an ability to hit the net on a regular basis for a host of clubs.

[edit] Club career

Tomás achieved some notability playing for Académica Coimbra, earning the nickname of O Jardel de Coimbra (The Coimbra's Jardel) after Mário Jardel.

He subsequently played for SL Benfica, Real Betis, Vitória de Guimarães and SC Braga, to where he returned after a Qatari stint in 2006-07, where he represented Al-Arabi Sports Club, scoring eight goals in seventeen games, before switching to Al-Rayyan Sports Club in 2007. In the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 Portuguese Liga season he was the second top scorer in the league.

[edit] International career

Tomás played 4 times for Portugal. His first game was in the 2-1 win over Israel, in a friendly match, on 15 November 2000. After a five and a half-year absence, he was recalled to the national team by Luiz Felipe Scolari, on May 22, 2007, playing in the 1-1 draw with a Kuwaiti club on June 5, in Kuwait City, and scoring the Portuguese goal.