Jorge Manuel Guerreiro Soares

Jorge Soares
Personal information
Full name Jorge Manuel Guerreiro Soares
Date of birth (1971-10-22) 22 October 1971
Place of birth Messejana, Portugal
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position Centre back
Youth career
1984–1985 Messejanense
1985–1987 Aljustrelense
1987–1990 Farense
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1996 Farense 132 (6)
1996–1998 Benfica 25 (2)
1998−2003 Marítimo 117 (3)
2003−2004 União Madeira 24 (2)
2004−2008 Louletano 98 (2)
Total 396 (15)
National team
1992 Portugal U21 7 (0)
Teams managed
2008–2009 Farense (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Jorge Manuel Guerreiro Soares (born 22 October 1971) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a central defender.

He amassed Primeira Liga totals of 273 games and 11 goals over the course of 13 seasons, representing mainly in the competition Farense and Marítimo.

Club career

Born in the village of Messejana in Aljustrel, Beja, Soares joined S.C. Farense at the age of 15, being first-choice with the first team in his last four years, all spent in the Primeira Liga. In the 1994–95 season he scored a career-best three goals in 26 games to help the club qualify to the UEFA Cup for the first time in its history; late into the following campaign he notably found the net in a 1–0 away win against S.L. Benfica, who subsequently signed him.

During his two-year spell with them, Soares partnered Jorge Bermúdez, Hélder Cristóvão or Tahar El Khalej in the heart of the defense, becoming first-choice after the second moved to Deportivo de La Coruña in the winter transfer season of 1996. In a match against FC Porto on 11 January 1997, however, he was unsuccessful at blocking a cross directed towards Mário Jardel, who stopped it with his chest and scored his team's first in an eventual 2–1 success in Lisbon.[1][2] After being released he represented C.S. Marítimo in the top flight, C.F. União in the second division and Louletano D.C. in the lower leagues, retiring in 2008 at 36.

References

  1. ↑ "Jorge Soares" (in Portuguese). Ser Benfiquista. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "Nº141 – Jorge Manuel Guerreiro Soares" (in Portuguese). Vedeta ou Marreta?. 23 January 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
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