Joaquim Carvalho de Azevedo (born 23 August 1959), commonly known as Quim, is a Portuguese former

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who played as a

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Club career

During a 16-year professional career,

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-born Quim played for four clubs. He started out at hometown's

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, achieving two Primeira Liga promotions with them during his six-year spell, following which he signed for FC Porto aged 25. Quim was only regularly used in two of his five seasons with Porto, helping to the conquest of three leagues, one

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and two supercups. He also played the first 45 minutes of the

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, as the team came from behind to win it 2–1 against FC Bayern Munich for their first triumph in the European Cup. Also from the bench, he appeared in that year's Intercontinental Cup, won against

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in extra time, as well as playing in the first leg of Porto's

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victory against

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. For the 1989–90 campaign, Quim joined lowly F.C. Tirsense, contributing 2,500 minutes as the northerners achieved their best-ever classification in the top flight (ninth), after which he played with

S.C. Farense Sporting Clube Farense, simply known as Farense, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Faro in the district of the same name and the region of Algarve. Founded in 1910, the club will play the 2021–22 season in the Liga Portugal ...

for two years also at that level. He then returned to his first club Rio Ave for a couple of

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seasons, retiring from the game at nearly 35. Quim coached several teams in the 90s/2000s, never in higher than the Portuguese third tier.

International career

Between 1985 and 1987, Quim won four

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for

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. He was overlooked for the squad that competed at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. Quim represented the under-20s in the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship in Japan, appearing four times for the eventual quarter-finalists.

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* * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Quim 1959 births Living people People from Vila do Conde Portuguese footballers Association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Rio Ave F.C. players FC Porto players F.C. Tirsense players S.C. Farense players UEFA Champions League winning players Portugal youth international footballers Portugal international footballers Portuguese football managers CU Micaelense managers Sportspeople from Porto District