Roger Guerreiro (; born on 25 May 1982), commonly known as Roger, is a Polish footballer who last played for Rio Verde as an

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. Brazilian-born Roger was granted

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Club career

AEK Athens

On 27 August 2009, Guerreiro signed a four-year contract with

AEK Athens F.C. AEK FC ( el, ΠΑΕ A.E.K. ; Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως; ''Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos'', meaning ''Athletic Union of Constantinople'') is a Greek professional football club based in Nea Filade ...

Guerreiro was the second Brazilian in the team, the other was Leonardo. Guerreiro made his debut for AEK versus Iraklis on 13 September 2009. Guerreiro was a regular for AEK until he fell out of favor with coach

Dušan Bajević Dušan "Duško" Bajević ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Бајевић, ; gr, Ντούσαν Μπάγεβιτς, ''Doúsan Báyevits''; born 10 December 1948) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player. He is regarded as the most succes ...

and was not included in any squads. In the transfer period, Guerreiro was for sale and was offered to many European clubs. After the transfer period ended, Guerreiro apologized to Bajevic and was given another chance and is now a member of the squad. Guerreiro's first match of the 2010–11 season was an away game against

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, the match ended 0–4 to AEK Athens. Guerreiro scored his first goal for AEK against Atromitos scoring the only goal of the match giving AEK the 1–0 win. His contract ended in 2013 and did not get renewed.

International career

He was granted

on 17 April 2008. Roger received the citizenship in a speedy procedure, and was guaranteed a place in the Poland's football team for the 2008 European Championships (coached by

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). He made his debut in a Poland shirt in the game versus

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on 27 May 2008.

Euro 2008

On 12 June, he scored his first goal for the Poland national team with a 30th-minute shot against

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in both teams' second Group B match of

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. For this game, UEFA awarded him

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. It was Poland's first-ever goal in the European Championship.Austria vs Poland match report
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Statistics

Career total

Honours

Legia Warsaw

Ekstraklasa Poland Ekstraklasa (), meaning "Extra Class" in Polish, named PKO Ekstraklasa since the 2019–20 season due to its sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is the top Polish professional league for men's association football teams. Contested by 18 ...

: 2005–06 *

Polish SuperCup The Polish Super Cup (, ) is an annually held match between the champions of the Ekstraklasa and the Polish Cup winners or, if the Ekstraklasa champions also win the Polish Cup, the Cup's runners-up. As of 2021, the Polish Super Cup has been ...

: 2008 *

Polish Cup The Polish Cup in football ( pl, Puchar Polski w piłce nożnej ) is an elimination tournament for Polish football clubs, held continuously from 1950, and is the second most important national title in Polish football after the Ekstraklasa title. ...

: 2008

AEK Athens

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References

External links

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Player website
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PZPN.pl profile

Player profile on Polish SOCA!

thinkball.com profile

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