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Felgueiras
Felgueiras () is a municipality in Porto District, Portugal. The current mayor is Nuno Fonseca. There are two cities located in the municipality: Felgueiras (city status received on 13 July 1990) and Lixa. The population in 2011 was 58,065, in an area of 115.74 km². Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 20 civil parishes (''freguesias''): * Aião * Airães * Friande * Idães * Jugueiros * Macieira da Lixa e Caramos * Margaride (Santa Eulália), Várzea, Lagares, Varziela e Moure * Pedreira, Rande e Sernande * Penacova * Pinheiro * Pombeiro da Ribavizela * Refontoura * Regilde * Revinhade * Sendim * Torrados e Sousa * Unhão e Lordelo * Vila Cova da Lixa e Borba de Godim * Vila Fria e Vizela (São Jorge) * Vila Verde e Santão Demographics Industry Felgueiras is one of the biggest producers of Europe in the shoewear area. Notable people * Nicolau Coelho (ca.1460 in Felgueiras – 1502, off the coast of Mozambique) was an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zamorano (Portuguese Footballer)
Frederico Filipe Teixeira Ribeiro (born 5 April 1982 in Felgueiras), known as Zamorano, is a Portuguese retired footballer. Mainly a right midfielder, he could also appear as a right back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s .... External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zamorano 1982 births Living people People from Felgueiras Portuguese footballers Association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players F.C. Felgueiras players Leixões S.C. players C.F. Estrela da Amadora players C.D. Trofense players Gondomar S.C. players F.C. Penafiel players Boavista F.C. players F.C. Felgueiras 1932 players Portugal youth international footballers Sportspeople from Porto District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Pacheco
Álvaro Adriano Teixeira Pacheco (born 25 June 1971) is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player. After achieving a total of 70 games in the second tier as a player, he worked as an assistant manager to Miguel Leal before managing in his own right at Fafe. Hired at Vizela in 2019, he achieved consecutive promotions to the Primeira Liga in his first two seasons. Playing career Born in Vila Cova da Lixa, Felgueiras, Pacheco is a product of the football academies of his local clubs Lixa and F.C. Felgueiras, while working as a locksmith with his father as a teenager. He started playing professional football with Felgueiras, having played 70 games in the second tier, and had spent most of his career in semi-pro leagues in Portugal. His first job as a manager was in 2005 with the youth ranks of his club Paredes, and he retired from playing in 2007, at the age of 34. Coaching career Early years Pacheco began his senior coaching career with Lixa in 2011. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolau Coelho
Nicolau Coelho (c.1460, in Felgueiras – 1502, off the coast of Mozambique) was an expert Portuguese navigator and explorer during the age of discovery. He participated in the discovery of the route to India by Vasco da Gama where he commanded Berrio, the first caravel to return; was captain of a ship in the fleet headed by Pedro Álvares Cabral who landed in Brazil. He died at sea, possibly off the coast of Mozambique, while returning from India in the 5th Portuguese Armada with Francisco de Albuquerque. Biography Nicolau Coelho (c.1460-1502) was presumably born in Felgueiras in northern Portugal. He was the son of Pedro Coelho and either Luísa de Góis or Inês de Ataíde, depending on the genealogical source. He married Brites Rodrigues de Brito sometime before 1495 and had several children: Nicolau, Francisco, Joana, Jorge, and Leonor. Nicolau Coelho was a Portuguese explorer and one of the three captains (along with Paulo da Gama and Gonçalo Nunes) who accompanied Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto District
The District of Porto ( pt, Distrito do 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. Its area is and its population is 1,817,172. In 2017, the main legal foreign populations were from Brazil (9,442), China (2,475), Ukraine (2,160), Italy (1,273), Spain (1,189), Angola (1,118), and Cape Verde (1,040). These numbers exclude those who obtained Portuguese citizenship, which is regular among recent Portuguese Brazilians or Portuguese-Africans. – SEF Municipalities The district comprises 18 municipalities: *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelsinho (footballer, Born 1979)
Nélson Manuel Ribeiro da Silva (born 28 July 1979), known as Nelsinho, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Club career Born in Felgueiras, Porto District, Nelsinho spent the better part of his career with Varzim S.C. since first arriving in 2008 from Gondomar SC. He went on to represent the club in both the second and third divisions, making 267 appearances in the former competition and retiring well in his 40s. In late October 2018, 39-year-old Nelsinho suffered a knee injury during a league match against FC Porto B Futebol Clube do Porto B, commonly known as Porto B, is a Portuguese professional football team, which serves as the reserve side of FC Porto. They compete in the Liga Portugal 2, the second division of Portuguese football, and play their home ... that sidelined him for two months. He returned to the lower leagues the following summer, joining Leça FC. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nelsinho 1979 births Livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedreira, Rande E Sernande
Pedreira, Rande e Sernande is a civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ... in the municipality of Felgueiras, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Pedreira, Rande and Sernande. The population in 2011 was 3,487,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 6.98 km². References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idães
Idães is a civil parish in the municipality of Felgueiras Felgueiras () is a municipality in Porto District, Portugal. The current mayor is Nuno Fonseca. There are two cities located in the municipality: Felgueiras (city status received on 13 July 1990) and Lixa. The population in 2011 was 58,065, in a ..., Portugal. The population in 2011 was 2,496,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 7.11 km². The parish contains the town Barrosas. References Freguesias of Felgueiras {{Porto-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lixa
Lixa is a Portuguese city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ... in Felgueiras Municipality, with 4,233 inhabitants in 2001. Nuno Pires Soares, Instituto Geográfico Português (Geographic Institute of Portugal) It has four parishes, Vila Cova da Lixa, Santão, Borba de Godim and Macieira da Lixa, that adds 12,58 km² in area. Parishes * Vila Cova da Lixa *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tâmega E Sousa
The Comunidade Intermunicipal do Tâmega e Sousa () is an administrative division in northern Portugal. It was created in 2009. Since January 2015, Tâmega e Sousa is also a NUTS3 subregion of Norte Region, that covers the same area as the intermunicipal community. Instituto Nacional de Estatística, 18 March 2015 The seat of the intermunicipal community is |
Sendim (Felgueiras)
Sendim e Atenor is a civil parish in the municipality of Miranda do Douro, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Sendim and Atenor. The population in 2011 was 1,487,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 58.93 km2.Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país /ref> Sendim is in the area where the rare < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vila Fria E Vizela (São Jorge)
Vila may refer to: People *Vila (surname) Places Andorra * Vila, Andorra, a town in the parish of Encamp Brazil * Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade, a municipality in the State of Mato Grosso * Vila Boa, Goiás, a municipality in the State of Goiás * Vila Flores, a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul * Vila Flor, a municipality in Rio Grande do Norte * Vila Lângaro, a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul * Vila Maria (district of São Paulo), a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul * Vila Nova do Piauí, a municipality of Piauí * Vila Nova dos Martírios, a municipality of Maranhão * Vila Nova do Sul, a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul * Vila Pavão, a municipality in Espírito Santo * Vila Propício, a municipality in the State of Goiás * Vila Rica, a municipality in the State of Minas Gerais * Vila Valério, a municipality in Espírito Santo * Vila Velha, a municipality in Espírito Santo Estonia * Vila, Estonia, village in the parish of Vihula, country of Lääne-Viru M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |