Domingos Sousa Coutinho Meneses Duarte (born 10 March 1995) is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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and the Portugal national team.

Club career

Sporting CP

Born in

Cascais Cascais () is a town and municipality in the Lisbon District of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera. The municipality has a total of 214,158 inhabitants in an area of 97.40 km2. Cascais is an important tourism in Portugal, tourist de ...

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, Duarte joined

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal, founded Sporting Club de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP, often known abroad as Sporting Lisbon , is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Lisbon. It is best known for the professional foot ...

's youth academy at the age of 16. He spent two full seasons with their reserves in the Segunda Liga to kickstart his senior career, his first match in the competition occurring on 5 October 2014 when he played 90 minutes in the 2–1 home win against

C.D. Trofense Clube Desportivo Trofense (), commonly known as Trofense, is a Portuguese football club based in Trofa, Portugal. Founded in 1930, it plays in Segunda Liga, holding home games at '' Estádio do Clube Desportivo Trofense'', with a capacity of 5,0 ...

. Duarte served loan spells from

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, respectively at

C.F. Os Belenenses Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses, commonly known as Os Belenenses (), is a Portuguese sports club best known for its football team. Founded in 1919, it is one of the oldest Portuguese sports clubs. It is based in the 25,000-seat Estádio do Rest ...

and

G.D. Chaves Grupo Desportivo de Chaves, commonly known as Chaves (), is a Portuguese association football, football football team, club from Chaves, Portugal, Chaves currently playing in the Primeira Liga. They were founded in 1949 and currently play at Está ...

and with both clubs competing in the

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. He made his league debut on 14 August 2016 while at the service of the former in a 2–0 away loss to

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, and scored his first goal on 1 October of the same year in a 3–1 defeat at precisely Chaves. On 3 August 2018, still owned by Sporting, Duarte signed with

Deportivo de La Coruña Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña (), commonly known as Deportivo La Coruña (), Deportivo or simply Dépor, is a professional association football, football club based in the city of A Coruña, Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. They currently p ...

with an option to buy. He scored in his very first appearance in the Spanish

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, helping the visitors earn a point at

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after the 1–1 draw.

Granada

On 14 July 2019, Duarte joined recently-promoted

Granada CF Granada Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. (), known simply as Granada, is a Spanish football club based in the city of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, that plays in the Segunda División, after being relegated from La Liga in the 2021� ...

on a four-year deal for a €3 million fee, with Sporting keeping 25% of future sale rights. He made his

debut on 17 August, playing the entire 4–4 away draw against

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, and scored his first goal on 5 October in a 4–2 loss at

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. Duarte started in ten of his 11 appearances in the

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, as his team reached the quarter-finals. On 20 September 2021, he headed home in the first half of an eventual 1–1 away draw with

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Getafe

On 11 July 2022, following Granada's relegation, Duarte remained in the Spanish top division after signing a four-year contract with

Getafe CF Getafe Club de Fútbol (), or simply Getafe, is a professional football club based in Getafe, a city in the Community of Madrid. The team competes in La Liga, the highest tier of the Spanish football system. The club's home stadium (owned and op ...

International career

Duarte won his only

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for the Portugal under-21 side on 24 March 2017, when he featured 11 minutes in a 3–1 friendly win over

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. In November 2019, manager Fernando Santos called him up for the first time to the senior team ahead of

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qualifiers against

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and

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. On 11 November 2020, Duarte made his full debut, in a 7–0 rout of

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in another exhibition at the

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. In October 2022, he was included in a preliminary 55-man squad for the

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in Qatar.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Individual *

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Team of the Tournament:

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References

External links

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Portuguese League profile
* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duarte, Domingos 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Cascais Portuguese footballers Association football defenders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players G.D. Estoril Praia players Sporting CP B players C.F. Os Belenenses players G.D. Chaves players La Liga players Segunda División players Deportivo de La Coruña players Granada CF footballers Getafe CF footballers Portugal youth international footballers Portugal under-21 international footballers Portugal international footballers Portuguese expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Spain Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain