Nuno Filipe Vasconcelos Viveiros (born 22 June 1983) is a Portuguese former professional
footballer
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who played as a
right winger
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.
Club career
Born in
Machico
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,
Madeira
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, Viveiros amassed
Primeira Liga
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totals of 58 games and two goals over five seasons, with
C.D. Nacional
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and
C.F. Estrela da Amadora. He made his debut in the competition whilst at the service of the former, playing 57 minutes in a 0–2 home loss against
U.D. Leiria
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on 21 September 2003, and scored his first goal with the same club, contributing to a 4–0 away win over
FC Porto
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on 11 March 2005.
In summer 2006, Viveiros signed with
Superleague Greece
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side
Skoda Xanthi FC
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, but returned to his country shortly after to join Estrela. In 2008, he started an adventure in Romania and its
Liga I
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that would last for nearly a decade, his first team being
FC Politehnica Iași
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International career
Viveiros participated with the
Portuguese under-20 side in the 2003 edition of the
Toulon Tournament
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, scoring in a 2–0 semi-final win against
Turkey
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as the nation went on to win the competition. His first and only
cap
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for
the under-21s arrived on 17 August 2004, as he started in a 0–0
friendly draw with
Malta
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1983 births
Living people
People from Machico, Madeira
Portuguese men's footballers
Madeiran footballers
Men's association football wingers
Primeira Liga players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
C.D. Nacional players
C.F. Estrela da Amadora players
C.F. União players
Super League Greece players
Xanthi F.C. players
Liga I players
FC Politehnica Iași (1945) players
FC Brașov (1936) players
CS Sporting Vaslui players
FC Universitatea Cluj players
FC Politehnica Iași (2010) players
Portugal men's youth international footballers
Portugal men's under-21 international footballers
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Expatriate men's footballers in Romania
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Romania