Nuno Santos (footballer born 1973)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nuno Luís Costa Santos | ||
| Date of birth | 20 April 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Setúbal, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1984–1985 | OVNI 2001 | ||
| 1985–1991 | Vitória Setúbal | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1991–1998 | Vitória Setúbal | 42 | (0) |
| 1991–1992 | → Caldas (loan) | ||
| 1993–1994 | → Operário (loan) | ||
| 1998–1999 | Leeds United | 0 | (0) |
| 1999–2004 | Benfica | 0 | (0) |
| 2000 | → Badajoz (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2001 | → Santa Clara (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | → Beira-Mar (loan) | 24 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | → Vitória Setúbal (loan) | 13 | (0) |
| 2004–2007 | Santa Clara | 69 | (0) |
| 2007 | Raging Rhinos | 2 | (0) |
| 2008 | Toronto FC | 0 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | Gondomar | 19 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Arouca | 9 | (0) |
| 2010–2012 | Ethnikos Assia | 10 | (0) |
| Total | 195 | (0) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Nuno Luís Costa Santos (born 20 April 1973) is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Football career
Born in Setúbal, Santos made his professional debuts with hometown's Vitória Futebol Clube, also serving two loans with lowly teams (Caldas Sport Clube and C.D. Operário). His solid performances in the 1997–98 campaign attracted the attention of Leeds United, but he made no official appearances whatsoever for the Premier League club, returning to his country with S.L. Benfica.
With the top division powerhouse, Santos was almost always only third-choice, and went on to also serve several loans, including in Spain's CD Badajoz, playing no games for the second level team during his four-month spell. Released by Benfica in June 2004 after a season-long loan spell at Vitória[1] he stabilized at C.D. Santa Clara – which he had already represented on loan from Benfica – starting in two of his three campaigns with the Azores side.
After one year in North America, appearing for both the Rochester Raging Rhinos and Toronto FC, Santos returned to Portugal and played in slightly more than half of the league's matches for Gondomar Sport Clube, with the club, also in division two, being relegated. In the summer, he dropped down to the third division and joined F.C. Arouca.
References
- ↑ "Bossio e Nuno Santos rescindiram" [Bossio and Nuno Santos have rescinded] (in Portuguese). Record. 4 June 2004. Retrieved 28 September 2004.
External links
- Stats and profile at Zerozero
- Nuno Santos profile at ForaDeJogo
- BDFutbol profile
- Stats at Footballdatabase