Bruno Miguel Duarte Paixão (born 28 May 1974, in

Setúbal Setúbal (, , ; cel-x-proto, Caetobrix) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population in 2014 was 118,166, occupying an area of . The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001. It lies within the Lisbon metropolitan area. In the ti ...

) is a Portuguese

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. He has been a

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international referee since 2004.

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