Vítor Valente
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Vítor Sérgio Santos Valente | ||
| Date of birth | 13 March 1965 | ||
| Place of birth | Lisbon, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Oeiras | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1984–1985 | Oeiras | ||
| 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) |
| 2002–2004 | Imortal | 17 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (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 União da Madeira.
In 1991, one year after the club lost Zé Beto in a car accident, F.C. 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 team 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 national football team, always under countryman Paulo Duarte.