Iuri José Picanço Medeiros (born 10 July 1994) is a Portuguese professional

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who plays for Emirati club Al-Nasr as a winger. He achieved Primeira Liga figures of 148 games and 40 goals, for

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 ...

and

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as well as loans to Arouca, Moreirense and Boavista. He also had brief spells in Italy, Poland and Germany, and won the

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with Braga. Medeiros earned 56

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and scored six goals for Portugal's youth teams.

Club career

Sporting CP

Born in Horta, Azores, Medeiros joined

's youth system in 2005, aged 11. He went on to spend three full seasons with their reserves in the Segunda Liga, his debut as a professional arriving of on 11 August 2012 as he came on as a 62nd-minute substitute for Filipe Chaby in a 1−0 away loss against

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. Medeiros was loaned to F.C. Arouca in the 2015 January

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, playing his first game in the Primeira Liga on the 18th in a 1−0 defeat at

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. He subsequently served two season-long top division loans, at Moreirense and Boavista FC. While at the service of the former, he scored his first goal in the competition on 25 September 2015 to help to a 2−2 home draw with FC Porto and, on 12 March 2017, netted a brace to help the latter defeat

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3−0. Returned to the

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for the 2017−18 campaign, Medeiros made his competitive debut for Sporting's first team on 15 August 2017, playing the last minutes of the 0−0 home draw against

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in the

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. He was, however, quickly deemed surplus to requirements by manager

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. On 25 January 2018, Medeiros signed with Genoa CFC on loan until June 2019, with the Italian club having the option to make the move permanent for

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10 million. He made his

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debut on 5 February, playing 25 minutes in a 2−1 away win over SS Lazio. He scored his first goal for his new team on 3 April in his first start, helping the hosts to defeat

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2−1 with a last-minute effort. On 3 February 2019, Medeiros joined Legia Warsaw on loan. On 19 July, he cut ties with Sporting and moved to 1. FC Nürnberg of the German

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on a four-year deal.

Braga

Medeiros returned to Portugal on 28 July 2020, agreeing to a one-year loan at

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with an option to buy. He won the

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in his first season, scoring in a 7–0 victory at

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in the fourth round on 14 December. On 29 January 2021, Medeiros suffered a severe left knee sprain in a Taça da Liga match against C.D. Santa Clara, ruling him out for six months. Nonetheless, he was rewarded in April for his six goals and five assists with a five-year contract; the fee was

800,000 and the buyout clause €30 million. Medeiros scored and set up

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on 24 February 2022 as Braga turned around a deficit against

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in the last 32 of the

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. On 14 April, in extra time during the second leg of quarter-final against Rangers, he was

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for dissent after shouting at referee François Letexier who had booked him for a late challenge on

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; as a result, he was not selected by coach Carlos Carvalhal for the next league fixture in order to "reflect upon his actions".

Al-Nasr

On 23 June 2023, Medeiros signed for Al-Nasr SC (Dubai) for a fee of €3 million.

International career

Medeiros participated in two

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editions with

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. In 2015, he collected four substitute appearances for the runners-up. Medeiros was also selected by coach

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for the Portugal Olympic team in a friendly 4–0 win over

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on 28 March 2016; the game was held in Angra do Heroísmo on his native archipelago. He was overlooked for the final squad for the

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in Brazil months later.

Career statistics

Notes

Honours

Sporting CP * Taça da Liga: 2017–18 Braga *

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Portugal *

runner-up: 2015

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Medeiros, Iuri 1994 births Living people People from Faial Island Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football wingers Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Sporting CP B players Sporting CP footballers F.C. Arouca players Moreirense F.C. players Boavista F.C. players S.C. Braga players Serie A players Genoa CFC players Ekstraklasa players Legia Warsaw players 2. Bundesliga players 1. FC Nürnberg players UAE Pro League players Al-Nasr SC (Dubai) players Portugal men's youth international footballers Portugal men's under-21 international footballers Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Italy Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Poland Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Germany Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates