Jorge Pires

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Jorge Pires
Personal information
Full name Jorge da Costa Pires [1]
Date of birth (1981-04-01) 1 April 1981 (age 43) [1]
Place of birth Amares, Portugal [1]
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) [1]
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1992–1998 Braga
1998–2000 Amares
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2000–2001 Amares
2001–2004 Braga B 62 (5)
2004–2005 Portosantense 31 (8)
2005–2006 Amares
2006–2007 Pontassolense 23 (8)
2007–2008 Ribeirão 37 (26)
2008–2009 Vizela 29 (4)
2009–2011 Portimonense 50 (10)
2011–2012 Aves 28 (12)
2012–2013 Feirense 34 (11)
2013–2014 Moreirense 40 (22)
2014 Benfica Luanda 12 (3)
2015–2019 Portimonense 132 (46)
2018–2019 → Penafiel (loan) 34 (16)
2019–2020 Penafiel 18 (3)
Total530(174)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jorge da Costa Pires (born 1 April 1981) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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He spent most of his career in LigaPro, totalling 324 matches and a record 113 goals for six teams and being top scorer three times. [2] Additionally, he played 42 Primeira Liga games and scored 11 goals in two spells with Portimonense.

Club career

Born in Amares, Braga District, Pires spent his youth career with Amares and Braga. He made his senior debut with the former in the fourth division before moving into the latter's reserve team in the third. He then had brief lower league spells at Portosantense, Amares again, Pontassolense and Ribeirão.

In 2008, Pires joined Vizela of the second level and a year later Portimonense, whom he helped to promotion as runners-up in his first season and then played in Primeira Liga for the first time, his maiden appearance in the competition occurring on 13 August 2010 in a 1–3 away loss against Braga where he came on as a second-half substitute. [3] After their immediate relegation, he spent the next two years in the second tier with Aves and Feirense respectively.

Pires signed for Moreirense in June 2013, [4] and was the league's top scorer with 22 goals (one more than Porto B's Tózé) as his team won promotion to the top flight as champions. [5] In June 2014, he moved abroad to join Benfica Luanda. [6] After winning the Taça de Angola, he returned to Portimonense on an 18-month deal in December. [7]

In 2016–17, Pires was again the second division's top scorer with 23 goals as the Algarvean team won the league title, with four more than Gil Vicente's Paulinho. [5] He added seven the following campaign in a tenth-place finish, including a hat-trick in a 4–3 win over former club Moreirense on 31 March 2018 in which the opponents had led 3–0; two of those goals were added-time penalties to win the points. [8]

Pires, who had two years remaining on his contract in Portimão, chose from seven offers to go on loan to Penafiel of the second tier in August 2018. [9] He was again top scorer with 16 goals, joint with Fabrício of Famalicão, [10] and his permanent transfer was subsequently confirmed. [11]

Pires retired on 20 August 2020 at the age of 39, as the highest scorer of all time in his country's second division. He immediately returned to Portimonense, as part of the coaching setup for the under-23 team. [12]

Honours

Moreirense

Portimonense

Benfica Luanda

Individual

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Jorge Pires" (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  2. ↑ "Luís Pedro é o jogador em competição com maior número de jogos na II Liga" [Luís Pedro is the active player with the highest number of games in the II League]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 21 October 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  3. ↑ "Sp. Braga 3–1 Portimonense" (in Portuguese). Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. 13 August 2010. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  4. ↑ "Avançado Pires contratado pelo Moreirense" [Forward Pires signed by Moreirense] (in Portuguese). Guimarães Digital. 12 June 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Jorge Pires é sinónimo de golo na LEDMAN LigaPro" [Jorge Pires is synonymous with goals in LEDMAN LigaPro] (in Portuguese). Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional. 11 February 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  6. ↑ Augusto, Elias (30 June 2014). "O reforço do Benfica de Luanda para a segunda volta, Jorge Pires, tem potencial para levar a equipa à conquista do título?" [Does Benfica de Luanda's addition for the second half of the season, Jorge Pires, have potential to lead the team to the title?]. Jornal dos Desportos (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  7. ↑ "Portimonense contrata avançado Jorge Pires" [Portimonense sign forward Jorge Pires] (in Portuguese). SAPO. 7 December 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  8. ↑ "Portimonense bate Moreirense em reviravolta épica" [Portimonense beat Moreirense in epic comeback]. Público (in Portuguese). 31 March 2018. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  9. ↑ "Pires recebe sete propostas e acaba emprestado pelo Portimonense" [Pires receives seven offers and ends up loaned by Portimonense]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 7 August 2018. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  10. 1 2 "Fabrício é o primeiro reforço do Farense" [Fabrício is Farense's first addition]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 21 May 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  11. ↑ "Rambos? Penafiel assegura o melhor marcador de sempre da II Liga" [Rambos? Penafiel secure the II League's greatest scorer of all time] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
  12. ↑ Alves, Armando (20 August 2020). "Jorge Pires encerra carreira e integra equipa técnica dos sub-23" [Jorge Pires ends career and joins under-23 coaching team]. Record (in Portuguese). Retrieved 25 August 2020.
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