Pedro Jorge Marques Pereira (born 3 January 1984) is a Portuguese

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who plays for Grupo Desportivo Prado as a right winger. Over nine seasons, he amassed Segunda Liga totals of 268 matches and 38 goals, mainly with

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(six years). He totalled 50 appearances in the

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, with three clubs.

Club career

Born in Braga, Pereira joined local S.C. Braga's youth system at the age of 11. He spent four full seasons with the reserves to kickstart his senior career and, on 17 August 2003, he made his first and only

appearance with the first team, coming on as a 77th-minute substitute in a 0–2 away loss against

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; additionally, he spent time with farm team F.C. Vizela in the Segunda Liga. Subsequently, Pereira was sparingly used during two top-division seasons at

C.F. Estrela da Amadora Club Football Estrela da Amadora (), sometimes just Estrela, is a Portuguese sports club (predominantly football) based in Amadora, northwest of Lisbon. It's the successor of Clube de Futebol Estrela da Amadora, founded in 1932 and extinct in ...

, being relegated in

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due to financial irregularities. He scored the first of his two goals in the competition on 7 January 2008, to close a 4–1 home win over Vitória de Guimarães. In the following eight years, safe for an unassuming spell at

Gil Vicente F.C. Gil Vicente Futebol Clube (), commonly known as Gil Vicente, founded in 1924, is a Portuguese football club that plays in Barcelos. It competes in the Primeira Liga, the top division of football in the country, and it is named after the Portugues ...

in the top flight, Pereira competed in the second tier, with

C.D. Aves Clube Desportivo das Aves (), commonly known as Desportivo das Aves, or simply as Aves, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Vila das Aves, Santo Tirso. The club was founded on 12 November 1930 and plays at the Estádio do Clube ...

S.C. Freamunde Sport Clube Freamunde is a Portuguese Association football, football club based in Freamunde, Paços de Ferreira. Founded on 19 March 1933, it currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal (league), Campeonato de Portugal, holding home matches at ...

and AD Fafe. In the 2013–14 campaign, he scored a career-best 12 goals in 43 games to help the first club to a final fourth position (15 across all competitions).

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pereira, Pedro 1984 births Living people Sportspeople from Braga Portuguese footballers Association football wingers Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players S.C. Braga B players S.C. Braga players F.C. Vizela players C.F. Estrela da Amadora players C.D. Aves players Gil Vicente F.C. players S.C. Freamunde players AD Fafe players Merelinense F.C. players Vilaverdense F.C. players Portugal youth international footballers