Paulo Roberto Costa Regula (born 12 March 1989) is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a

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Club career

Regula was born in

Sarilhos Pequenos Sarilhos Pequenos is town on the south margin of the Tagus River, near Lisbon, Portugal. Once a civil parish in the municipality of Moita, in the district of Setúbal, it merged in 2013 into the new parish of Gaio-Rosário e Sarilhos Pequenos. W ...

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. After starting to play football with

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, he moved to Vitória F.C. in 2002 at the age of 13, where he completed his development. In the 2008–09 season he began to receive callups to the main squad, making his debut in the

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on 24 January 2009 by coming on as a 62nd-minute substitute in a 0–1 home loss against

Associação Naval 1º de Maio Associação Naval 1º de Maio or Associação Naval 1893, commonly known as Naval, is a Portuguese football club based in Figueira da Foz, Coimbra District. Founded on 1 May 1893, it plays in the Division of Honour in the Coimbra Football Associ ...

. Regula repeated individual numbers in the 2009–10 campaign, again appearing in 11 league games but managing to score once – in a 3–5 loss at

F.C. Paços de Ferreira Futebol Clube Paços de Ferreira () is a Portuguese football club based in Paços de Ferreira, Porto district. Founded in 1950, the club competes in the Primeira Liga, holding home games at the 9,077-seater Estádio da Mata Real, a municipal s ...

– as the '' Sadinos'' again retained their division status. On 11 November 2010 he suffered a serious injury to his

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in a match against

U.D. Leiria União Desportiva de Leiria, commonly known as União de Leiria (), is a Portuguese football club based in Leiria, central Portugal. Founded on 6 June 1966, it currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, holding home matches at Estádio Dr. M ...

and, on 30 June 2011, as his contract expired, was released by the club. After becoming a

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, Regula was set to complete a transfer to

Calcio Catania Catania S.S.D., commonly known as Catania, is an Italian football club based in the city of Catania, Sicily, that plays in . Originally founded in 1908 as ''Associazione Sportiva pro Educazione Fisica'', the club boasts 17 appearances in the ...

in Italy, with the move even being announced in July 2011. However, the transfer collapsed shortly after, and he signed for

S.C. Olhanense Sporting Clube Olhanense () is a Portuguese sports club from Olhão, Algarve. Its football team was founded on 27 April 1912 and currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth tier of Portuguese football. It holds home matches at the ...

the following month. Regula was loaned to Segunda Liga team

for

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. In February 2015, still owned by Olhanense, he joined

PFC Litex Lovech Litex ( bg, Литекс) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Lovech, which currently competes in the Second League. The club was founded in 1921 as Hisarya Sports Club. The club's home ground is the Gradski Stadion ...

from Bulgaria.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Regula, Paulo 1989 births Living people Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players Vitória F.C. players S.C. Olhanense players Associação Naval 1º de Maio players Atlético Clube de Portugal players C.D. Pinhalnovense players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players PFC Litex Lovech players Portugal men's under-21 international footballers Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria People from Setúbal District Footballers from Setúbal District