Rui António da Cruz Ferreira (born 22 March 1960), known as Nascimento, is a Portuguese retired

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who played as a

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, and a current

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Club career

Born in

Leiria Leiria (; cel-x-proto, ɸlāryo) is a city and municipality in the Central Region of Portugal. It is the 2nd largest city in that same region, with a municipality population of 128,640 (as of 2021) in an area of . It is the seat of its own distr ...

, Nascimento made his professional debuts with local União Desportiva in 1979, after playing his youth football and starting his senior career in

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. He consolidated himself as a

Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (; English: Premier League, also written as Liga Portugal 1), also known as Liga Portugal Bwin for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga Portugal, ...

player in the following seven seasons, playing with

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(three years) and Vitória de Guimarães (four), always as first-choice and scoring nearly 30 overall goals. At the age of 29, Nascimento signed with

FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portu ...

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the only title of his career, the national championship, but he only collected 13 appearances in a total of 542 minutes. He closed out his career at 33, after spells with lowly

F.C. Tirsense Futebol Clube Tirsense, commonly known as just Tirsense, is a Portuguese football club from Santo Tirso, founded on January 5, 1938. They currently play in the Divisão de Elite of AF Porto. They currently play their home games in Abel Alves de F ...

(two years, one of those in the top flight) and Amora FC. Nascimento started his managerial career in the early 2000s, and would work mainly as an assistant, always under

Manuel Cajuda Manuel Ventura Cajuda de Sousa (born 27 June 1951) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a midfielder, and the manager of Leixões SC. In a career which spanned three decades, he managed nearly 20 teams in his own country, and also w ...

. His first head coach experience arrived in 2006, with

C.D. Pinhalnovense Clube Desportivo Pinhalnovense is a Portugal, Portuguese Association football, football club based in the town of Pinhal Novo, Palmela, Setúbal District. Founded in 1948, it currently plays in AF Setúbal 2ª Divisão, holding home games at ''Ca ...

in the third level.

International career

Nascimento represented

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at the

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, helping his team to the quarter-finals. He went on to earn five caps for the senior side in 1987, after the vast majority of the players defected following the Saltillo Affair at the

1986 FIFA World Cup The 1986 FIFA World Cup was the 13th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June 1986. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-team format. Colombia ha ...

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nascimento 1960 births Living people People from Leiria Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players U.D. Leiria players Vitória F.C. players Vitória S.C. players FC Porto players F.C. Tirsense players Amora F.C. players Portugal men's youth international footballers Portugal men's under-21 international footballers Portugal men's international footballers Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in France Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in France Portuguese football managers C.D. Pinhalnovense managers S.C. Covilhã managers U.D. Leiria managers Footballers from Leiria District S.C. Braga non-playing staff