Luís Pedro de Freitas Pinto Trabulo (born 22 August 1994), known as Pité, is a Portuguese professional

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who plays for C.D. Mafra as a

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. He played 82 games and scored six goals in the

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for

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and Arouca but spent most of his career in the second tier, making over 100 appearances for

Beira-Mar Sport Clube Beira-Mar () is a Portuguese sports club based in Aveiro, Portugal. Its football team currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth national level, having gained promotion by winning the Aveiro FA First Division 2018/19 ...

, Porto B, Arouca and

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and winning the title with the second of those teams in

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. Pité played for the Portugal Olympic team at the 2016 tournament.

Club career

Beira-Mar

Born in the town of

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, Pité joined local

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's youth system in 2005, aged 11. He made his debut with the first team on 27 July 2013, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–0 away loss against

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in the first round of the

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. His maiden appearance in the Segunda Liga took place on 12 August, in a 2–3 home defeat to

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. Pité scored his first goal as a senior on 2 October 2013, helping to a 3–2 win at

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. He missed only seven matches during the campaign, helping to a 12th-place finish amongst 22 teams.

Porto

On 1 July 2014, Pité signed for

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, being assigned to the reserves also in the second division. He spent two seasons playing for them, split roughly between starting games and coming on as a substitute. Pité was called up for the first team for their League Cup

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against

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on 27 January 2016, remaining unused by manager

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in the 2–0 away loss.

Tondela

On 15 July 2016, Pité was loaned to

club

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for the season. He made 15 appearances across all competitions as it finally avoided relegation, scoring once as consolation in a 1–2 home loss to

F.C. Arouca Futebol Clube de Arouca () is a football club based in Arouca, Porto Metropolitan Area, Portugal. Founded in 1951, the club plays in the Primeira Liga, holding home games at Estádio Municipal de Arouca, with a 5,000-seat capacity. History Founde ...

on 8 January 2017. Pité joined on a permanent basis on 7 June 2017, until 2020.

Arouca

Out of work since leaving Tondela, Pité found a new team on 13 January 2021, joining second-tier Arouca on an 18-month deal. He scored his first goals on the final day of the season on 22 May, ensuring a play-off place with two in a 3–1 home victory over

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; three days later he scored the opening goal against

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in a 3–0 win in the play-off first leg (5–0 aggregate). In his top-flight season at the

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, Pité was most often a substitute. In that role, he scored an added-time equaliser in a 2–2 draw with

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on 18 September 2021.

Mafra

On 9 June 2022, Pité signed a two-year deal to be C.D. Mafra's first signing ahead of the

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season.

International career

On 17 July 2016, Pité was called to the Portugal Olympic squad due to appear in the year's

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, replacing Nuno Santos. He replaced Porto's Sérgio Oliveira midway through the second half of the group stage opener against

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, and scored the final 2–0 in the 84th minute following a blunder from

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Career statistics

Honours

Porto B * Segunda Liga: 2015–16

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pite 1994 births Living people People from Aveiro, Portugal Footballers from Aveiro District Portuguese footballers Men's association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players S.C. Beira-Mar players FC Porto B players C.D. Tondela players F.C. Arouca players C.D. Mafra players Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Portugal