Gonçalo Pinto de Mesquita Viegas Malheiro (born 11 May 1978, in

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

) is a Portuguese

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footballer. He plays as a fly-half. He works as a civil engineer. He took his degree at University of Porto. Malheiro played at first at CDUP. He spent a season at

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, in 2004/05, where he became a professional and was the top scorer of the Spanish League, with 249 points scored. He had 39 caps for

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, since his debut, in 1998, scoring a total of 261 points (8 tries, 25 conversions, 42 penalties and 15 drop goals). This makes him the current top scorer for the "Lobos". Malheiro played twice at the

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finals, with

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, in a 108–13 loss, scoring the first drop goal of the tournament, and

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, in a narrow 14–10 loss, scoring a penalty. His last cap was at the 8–23 loss to Romania, at 1 December 2007, for the

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