Rui Fernando da Costa Riça, known as Rui Riça (born 6 January 1978) is a retired
Portuguese
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* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
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football
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player. He was mainly a
goalkeeper
In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...
, but occasionally played as a
defender and scored in those games.
Club career
He made his professional debut in the
Segunda Liga for
Chaves on 2 October 1999 in a game against
Sporting Covilhã
Sporting may refer to:
*Sport, recreational games and play
*Sporting (neighborhood), in Alexandria, Egypt
Sports clubs
*AC Sporting, a football club from Beirut, Lebanon
*Alexandria Sporting Club, a sports club from Alexandria, Egypt
*Real Sportin ...
.
References
1978 births
People from Chaves, Portugal
Living people
Portuguese men's footballers
G.D. Chaves players
CD Ourense footballers
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Liga Portugal 2 players
F.C. Vizela players
C.D. Trofense players
C.F. Os Belenenses players
F.C. Penafiel players
S.C. Vila Real players
C.D.C. Montalegre players
Men's association football goalkeepers
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Vila Real District
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