Rui Almeida Monteiro (born 15 June 1977) is a Cape Verdean retired professional
football
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player.
Club career
Born in
Cape Verde
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, official_languages = Portuguese
, national_languages = Cape Verdean Creole
, capital = Praia
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, he made his debut in professional football on 22 August 1998 for
FC Dordrecht
Football Club Dordrecht, or simply FC Dordrecht () is a professional Dutch association football club based in Dordrecht, a city in the Western Netherlands, located in the province of South Holland. They currently compete in the Eerste Divisie, ...
in a game against
HFC Haarlem
HFC Haarlem was a Dutch football club from the city of Haarlem, established in 1889 and dissolved in 2010. The club won the Eredivisie in 1946 and reached five Cup finals, winning in 1902 and 1912. Haarlem reached the second round of the 1982 ...
replacing
Giovanni Franken
Giovanni Francesco Zacharias Franken (born 14 November 1977) is a retired footballer who played as a midfielder and head coach of the under-21 team of ADO Den Haag.
Born in the Netherlands, Franken represented the Netherlands Antilles at internat ...
in the 83rd minute.
He played in the
Eredivisie for
Sparta, but was released by the club after the 2002/03 season. He signed for Portuguese side
Portimonense
Portimonense Sporting Clube is a Portuguese sports club based in Portimão. Founded on 14 August 1914, it is most notable for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football. It als ...
, only to return to Dordrecht in summer 2004. He was released by them in 2006
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- Rijnmond and later played for amateur sides Leonidas, Zwaluwen and ZBC'97.
See also
*Sparta Rotterdam season 2001–02
Sparta (Doric Greek: Σπάρτα, ''Spártā''; Attic Greek: Σπάρτη, ''Spártē'') was a prominent city-state in Laconia, in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (, ), while the name Sparta referred t ...
* Sparta Rotterdam season 2002–03
References
External links
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Profile
1977 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Praia
Cape Verdean footballers
Cape Verde international footballers
Cape Verdean expatriates in the Netherlands
Association football wingers
FC Dordrecht players
Sparta Rotterdam players
Portimonense S.C. players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
RKSV Leonidas players
VV Zwaluwen players
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