Tiago Jorge Oliveira Lopes

Tiago Lopes
Personal information
Full name	Tiago Jorge Oliveira Lopes
Date of birth	4 January 1989 (age 29)
Place of birth	Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Right back
Club information
Current team	Kayserispor
Number	2
Youth career
2000–2005	Coimbrões
2005–2006	Padroense
2006–2008	Candal
Senior career*
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league onlyand correct as of 24 December 2018

Last updated March 07, 2019

Tiago Jorge Oliveira Lopes (born 4 January 1989) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Kayserispor as a right back.

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located mostly on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. It is the westernmost sovereign state of mainland Europe. It is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain. Its territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous regions with their own regional governments.

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.

Kayseri Spor Kulübü, commonly known as Kayserispor, is a Turkish professional football club based in Kayseri, Turkey. They play their home matches at the Kadir Has Stadium in red and yellow kits.

Football career

Born in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto District, Lopes kickstarted his senior career in Italian amateur football. Returned to his country in 2010, he spent one season apiece in the third division with S.C. Espinho and C.D. Tondela.

Vila Nova de Gaia, or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal. It is located south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. The city proper had a population of 178,255 in 2001. The municipality has an area of 168.46 km². and a total population of 302,295 inhabitants (2011), making it the most populous municipality in Norte Region. Gaia together with Porto and 12 other municipalities makes up the commonly designated Porto Metropolitan Area.

The District of Porto, is located on the north-west coast of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Porto, the second largest city in the country. It is bordered by the Aveiro and Viseu districts to the south, Braga district to the north and Vila Real district to the east.

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In the summer of 2012, Lopes signed with Segunda Liga club C.D. Trofense. He played his first game as a professional on 12 August, featuring the full 90 minutes in a 0–2 away loss against C.D. Aves.^[1]

C.D. Trofense association football team from Trofa,Portugal

Clube Desportivo Trofense, commonly known as Trofense, is a Portuguese football club based in Trofa, Portugal. Founded in 1930, it plays in Campeonato Nacional, holding home games at Estádio do Clube Desportivo Trofense, with a capacity of 5,074 spectators.

Clube Desportivo das Aves, commonly known as Desportivo das Aves, or simply as Aves, is a Portuguese football club from Vila das Aves, Santo Tirso, that currently plays in the Primeira Liga. The club was founded on 12 November 1930 and plays at the Estádio do Clube Desportivo das Aves, which holds a seating capacity of 8,560.

For the 2013–14 campaign, Lopes joined fellow league side S.C. Covilhã. On 19 January 2014, as his contract was about to expire, the 25-year-old moved abroad after agreeing to a two-and-a-half-year deal at CFR Cluj in the Romanian Liga I.^[2]

The 2013–14 Segunda Liga, also known as the Liga Revolução by Cabovisão for sponsorship reasons, was the 24th season of the second-tier of football in Portugal. A total of 22 teams played in the league in this season.

S.C. Covilhã association football club in Portugal

Sporting Clube da Covilhã, commonly known as just Sporting da Covilhã, is Portuguese football club from the city of Covilhã that plays in the second-tier LigaPro. The club was founded in 1923. Their nickname is the Leões da Serra, meaning "Lions of the Mountain Range," due to Covilhã's location in the Serra de Estrela, the highest mountains in Portugal. In 2007–08, they finished first in the Portuguese Second Division Serie C, out-scoring teams and exceeding expectations and also, in remarkable fashion, finishing first in the playoffs and beating historic club GD Chaves. Their home ground is Estádio Municipal José dos Santos Pinto, located at approximately 900 m of altitude. However, SCC play sometimes at a more recent Complexo Desportivo da Covilhã in Covilhã, which holds a capacity of 3,000 spectators. Their current chairman is José Oliveira Mendes and current manager is Fernando Chaló. They have won five Second Division in 1948, 1958, 1987 (second-tier), 2002, and 2005 (third-tier). The club is now in their sixth consecutive presence in the second tier.

Fotbal Club CFR 1907 Cluj, commonly known as CFR Cluj, is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County. It was founded in 1907, with current name "CFR" being the acronym for Căile Ferate Române.

Lopes scored his first top flight goal on 29 September 2014, netting the game's only in a home win over FC Universitatea Cluj.^[3]

Fotbal Club Universitatea Cluj, commonly known as Universitatea Cluj, or simply as U Cluj, is a Romanian professional football club based in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County. Founded in 1919 by Iuliu Hațieganu, the team currently plays in the Liga II, the second tier of the Romanian football league system.

Personal life

Lopes's twin brother, Hélder, was also a footballer and a defender.^[4]^[5]

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Honours

CFR Cluj

Cupa României: 2015–16

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References

↑ "D. Aves-Trofense, 2–0: Golos a abrir e a fechar" [D. Aves-Trofense, 2–0: One early goal and another late one]. Record (in Portuguese). 12 August 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
↑ "Tiago Lopes nos romenos do Cluj" [Tiago Lopes to Romania's Cluj]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 19 January 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
↑ "VIDEO CFR – Universitatea Cluj 1–0 » Gazdele cîştigă cu un gol marcat în minutul 94 şi egalează Steaua în fruntea clasamentului" [VIDEO CFR – Universitatea Cluj 1–0 » Hosts win with goal scored in the 94th minute and equal Steaua at the top of the table]. Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). 29 September 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
↑ "Criza fara sfarsit la CFR, jucatori din liga a II-a portugheza, Tiago Lopes ultimul venit in Gruia" [Crisis without end at CFR, players from the second Portuguese league, Tiago Lopes the last one that arrived in Gruia] (in Romanian). Stirile Pro TV. 27 January 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
↑ "FOTO EXCLUSIV E dorit de "caini" si e rivalul FCSB, dar anunta: "Steaua n-are cum sa rateze titlul"" [EXCLUSIVE PHOTO He is wanted by "the dogs" and he is the rival of FCSB but announces: "Steaua cannot miss the title"]. Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). 19 April 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.

External links

Tiago Lopes at TheFinalBall.com
Tiago Lopes at ForaDeJogo
Tiago Lopes at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian) and StatisticsFootball.com
Tiago Lopes at Soccerway

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[1] "D. Aves-Trofense, 2–0: Golos a abrir e a fechar" [D. Aves-Trofense, 2–0: One early goal and another late one]. Record (in Portuguese). 12 August 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2017.

[2] "Tiago Lopes nos romenos do Cluj" [Tiago Lopes to Romania's Cluj]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 19 January 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2017.

[3] "VIDEO CFR – Universitatea Cluj 1–0 » Gazdele cîştigă cu un gol marcat în minutul 94 şi egalează Steaua în fruntea clasamentului" [VIDEO CFR – Universitatea Cluj 1–0 » Hosts win with goal scored in the 94th minute and equal Steaua at the top of the table]. Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). 29 September 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2017.

[4] "Criza fara sfarsit la CFR, jucatori din liga a II-a portugheza, Tiago Lopes ultimul venit in Gruia" [Crisis without end at CFR, players from the second Portuguese league, Tiago Lopes the last one that arrived in Gruia] (in Romanian). Stirile Pro TV. 27 January 2014. Retrieved 14 September 2017.

[5] "FOTO EXCLUSIV E dorit de "caini" si e rivalul FCSB, dar anunta: "Steaua n-are cum sa rateze titlul"" [EXCLUSIVE PHOTO He is wanted by "the dogs" and he is the rival of FCSB but announces: "Steaua cannot miss the title"]. Gazeta Sporturilor (in Romanian). 19 April 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017.