Romário Manuel Silva Baró (born 25 January 2000) is a professional
footballer
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who plays as a
midfielder
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for
Primeira Liga club
Porto
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. Born in
Guinea-Bissau
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, Baró represented Portugal internationally at youth level.
Club career
Born in
Bissau in Guinea-Bissau, Baró played in
Sporting CP
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's youth teams before joining
FC Porto in 2014. He made his professional debut for
the reserves in
LigaPro on 21 January 2018, playing the last three minutes of a 1–1 home draw against
F.C. Arouca as a
substitute for
Rui Moreira. He made ten appearances over
the season and scored once, to open a 3–0 win over
S.C. Covilhã
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on 18 March, also at the
Estádio Dr. Jorge Sampaio.
In the
2018–19 UEFA Youth League
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The final was played on 29 April 2019 at the Colovray Stadium in Nyon, Switzerland, between English side ...
, Baró scored six goals in ten appearances as
Porto
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won the title. In the final, he assisted
Afonso Sousa
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Club career Porto
Born in Aveiro, Sousa returned to FC Porto's youth academy at the age ...
for the last goal of a 3–1 win over
Chelsea
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in
Nyon
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, Switzerland. With the B-team in the second division, he scored four goals in 28 games over the season, and was sent off for dissent on 1 September 2018 in a 2–1 home win over
Académico de Viseu FC.
Baró was given the first team's number 8 shirt ahead of the 2019–20 season, inheriting it from
Yacine Brahimi
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. He made his debut in the
UEFA Champions League
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third qualifying round first leg on 7 August, starting in a 1–0 win away to
FC Krasnodar
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and making way for
Luis Díaz on 55 minutes. Ten days later he played his first game in the
Primeira Liga, again starting a 4–0 home win against
Vitória FC.
On 1 September 2021, he joined
Estoril
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in the
Primeira Liga on loan.
International career
Baró has represented Portugal at various youth levels. At the
2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
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, where Portugal finished as runners-up to Germany, he appeared in quarterfinal and semifinal games.
Career statistics
Honours
Porto Youth
*
UEFA Youth League
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:
2018–19
Porto
*
Primeira Liga:
2019–20
*
Taça de Portugal
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:
2019–20
*
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
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:
2020
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References
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2000 births
Living people
Footballers from Bissau
Portuguese men's footballers
Bissau-Guinean men's footballers
Bissau-Guinean emigrants to Portugal
Black Portuguese sportspeople
Portugal men's youth international footballers
Portugal men's under-21 international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Primeira Liga players
Liga Portugal 2 players
FC Porto B players
FC Porto players
G.D. Estoril Praia players
Casa Pia A.C. players