Diogo Filipe Conceição Tavares (born 27 July 1987) is a Portuguese professional

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who plays for

Clube Oriental de Lisboa Clube Oriental de Lisboa is a Portuguese football club based in Lisbon. Founded in 1946, it currently competes in the Campeonato de Portugal, holding home games at ''Campo Engenheiro Carlos Salema'', with an 8,500 capacity. History Clube Orienta ...

as a

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. He spent most of his career in Italy, but never competed in

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Club career

Genoa

Born in

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, Tavares was a product of Sporting CP's prolific youth system, but never appeared professionally for its first team, moving abroad in 2006 to join Italian side

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, where he spent two uneventful seasons which included as much loans. He spent the 2007–08 campaign in AC Lugano in Switzerland, with the club also receiving from Genoa Alessandro Di Maio, Tiago and

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for a total of €500,000.Genoa Report and Accounts on 30 June 2008 (in Italian)
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Frosinone

In July 2008, Tavares was signed by

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(in a co-ownership deal) for

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300,000.Genoa Report and Accounts on 31 December 2008 (in Italian)
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club used the transfer credit of

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who joined Genoa in June for €2.3 million, in the same predicament. In January 2010 he moved to lowly

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, in another loan. In late June 2010, Tavares was bought permanently by Fronisone along with

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, as part of Robert Gucher's deal. At that time half of the registration rights of the player were valued at €800,000,Genoa Report and Accounts on 31 December 2010 (in Italian)
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/ref> while Tavares was valued at €600,000 and Gucher at €1.3 million; moreover,

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's loan had cost Fronisone €100,000 and Gucher had cost Geona €200,000, which cleared any debts for both clubs. Tavares only appeared in one fourth of the league matches during

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and only scored once, as his team ranked 22nd and last in the second level.

Como

On 28 August 2011, Tavares left for

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as part of the deal that sent

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in the opposite direction.

References

External links

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Gazzetta dello Sport profile
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tavares, Diogo 1987 births Living people Footballers from Lisbon Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football forwards Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players Sporting CP footballers C.D. Santa Clara players Amora F.C. players C.D. Pinhalnovense players Clube Oriental de Lisboa players Serie B players Serie C players Genoa CFC players AC Monza players Frosinone Calcio players US Pergolettese 1932 players Ternana Calcio players Como 1907 players AC Ancona players ACR Messina players US Catanzaro 1929 players Catania FC players SS Leonzio 1909 players Swiss Challenge League players FC Lugano players Portugal men's youth international footballers Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Italy Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland