Vítor Valente

Vítor Valente
Personal information
Full name Vítor Sérgio dos Santos Valente
Date of birth (1965-03-17) 17 March 1965
Place of birth Lisbon, Portugal
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Youth career
1978–1980 Oeiras
1980–1981 Sporting CP
1981–1983 Benfica
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1984 Trafaria
1984–1985 Casa Pia
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)
2002–2003 Imortal 17 (0)
2003–2004 Pampilhosa 5 (0)
Total 163 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Vítor Sérgio dos Santos Valente (born 13 March 1965) is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Football career

After beginning in the lower leagues, Valente made his Primeira Liga 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 division, in representation of Académica de Coimbra and C.F. União.

In 1991, about one year after the club lost Zé Beto in a car accident, FC 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 level, starting in his last year), 32-year-old Valente signed for F.C. Alverca in the same tier, being understudy to Paulo Santos. He then returned to former side Académica, who now competed 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, Gabon national teams and CS Sfaxien, always under countryman Paulo Duarte.

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