Kevin Rodrigues-Pires (born 12 September 1991) is a professional
footballer
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who plays as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
for
Wuppertaler SV
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. Born in Germany, he represented Portugal at youth international level.
Early life
He played youth football with
Fortuna Köln
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,
Bayer Leverkusen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen (), Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The club competes in the Bundesliga, t ...
,
1. FC Köln, and
Alemannia Aachen.
Club career
In 2009, he made his senior debut for
Alemannia Aachen II
Alemannia Aachen () or ATSV Alemannia 1900 is a German football club from the western city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia. A long term fixture of the country's second division, ''Alemannia'' enjoyed a three-year turn in the Bundesliga in the ...
.
In 2010, he joined
Schalke 04 II in the fourth tier
Regionalliga West
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. He spent two seasons with the club.
In 2012, he moved to
Rot-Weiss Essen
Rot-Weiss Essen is a German association football club based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club currently plays in the 3. Liga, at the Stadion an der Hafenstraße.
The team won the DFB-Pokal in 1953, and the German championship in 195 ...
, where he played two seasons. On March 14, 2014, he scored two goals against
SSVg Velbert 02. In May 2014, he departed the club.
In 2014, he joined
Sportfreunde Lotte
VfL Sportfreunde Lotte is a German association football club from Lotte, North Rhine-Westphalia. The football team is part of a sports club with approximately 1400 members and departments for handball, walking, gymnastics, and swimming, as well ...
.
In August 2015, he joined
TSV Steinbach
TSV Steinbach Haiger is a German Association football, association football club from Steinbach, near Haiger, Hesse.
The club's greatest success has been to earn promotion to the German football league system, tier four Regionalliga Südwest in ...
in the
Regionalliga Südwest
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.
In January 2016
Sportfreunde Lotte
VfL Sportfreunde Lotte is a German association football club from Lotte, North Rhine-Westphalia. The football team is part of a sports club with approximately 1400 members and departments for handball, walking, gymnastics, and swimming, as well ...
. On March 22, 2017, he tore a ligament, causing him to miss several months of action. In September 2017, he re-tore the ligament after returning to training two weeks earlier, however, he would not require surgery.
He then joined
Preußen Münster
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It also refers to:
Ships
* ''Preußen'' (ship), windjammer built in 1902
* SMS ''Preußen'' (1873), armored frigate
* SMS ''Preußen'' (1903), pre-dreadnought Battleship
* , vorpostenboot
...
in the summer of 2018.
He signed a contract until June 2020.
He returned to the fourth tier in the summer of 2020 with
Wuppertaler SV
Wuppertaler SV is a German association football club located in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia. The city was founded in 1929 out of the union of a number of smaller towns including Elberfeld, Barmen, Vohwinkel, Cronenberg and Ronsdorf – e ...
. He made his debut in an exhibition match against fifth tier
Oberliga side
SSVg Velbert 02. He serves as team captain. His contract was set to expire at the end of June 2022, but he extended it for another season.
International career
In 2009, he made three appearances with the
Portugal U18 team.
References
External links
Profileat FuPa.net
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1991 births
Living people
Footballers from Cologne
Citizens of Portugal through descent
Portuguese footballers
Portugal youth international footballers
German footballers
Association football midfielders
FC Schalke 04 II players
Rot-Weiss Essen players
Sportfreunde Lotte players
SC Preußen Münster players
Wuppertaler SV players
3. Liga players
German people of Portuguese descent
Regionalliga players
SC Fortuna Köln players
Bayer 04 Leverkusen players
1. FC Köln players
Alemannia Aachen players
TSV Steinbach Haiger players