Gonçalo Pinto de Mesquita Viegas Malheiro (born Porto, 11 May 1978) is a Portuguese rugby union footballer. He plays as a fly-half. He works as a civil engineer. He took his degree at University of Porto.
Malheiro played at first at CDUP. He spent a season at Madrid 2012, in 2004/05, where he become a professional and was the top scorer of the Spanish League, with 249 points scored. He has won 37 caps for Portugal, since his debut, in 1997, scoring a total of 231 points (7 tries, 23 conversions, 36 penalties and 14 drop goals). This makes him the current top scorer for the "Lobos".
Malheiro played twice at the 2007 Rugby World Cup finals, with New Zealand, scoring the first drop goal of the tournament, and Romania, scoring a penalty.
His most recent match was the 8-23 loss to Romania, at 1 December 2007, for the Six Nations B.
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