Tiago Miguel Silva Vilela Lima Pereira (born 3 June 1994) is a Portuguese

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who plays for

Pevidém S.C. Pevidém Sport Clube is a Portuguese sports club from Pevidém, Guimarães Guimarães () is a city and municipality located in northern Portugal, in the district of Braga. Its historic town centre has been listed as a UNESCWorld Heritage S ...

as a

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Club career

Born in

Póvoa de Varzim Póvoa de Varzim (, ) is a Portuguese city in Northern Portugal and sub-region of Greater Porto, from its city centre. It sits in a sandy coastal plain, a cuspate foreland, halfway between the Minho and Douro rivers. In 2001, there were 63,470 ...

, Lima Pereira's final youth club was

FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, MHIH, OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portu ...

, and he was an unused substitute for the reserves in Segunda Liga for two matches in the middle of the 2012–13 season. He then joined another second team,

Vitória S.C. B Vitória Guimarães B is a Portuguese football team founded in 2012. They are the reserve team of Vitória Guimarães. Reserve teams in Portugal play in the same league system as the senior team, rather than in a reserve team league. However, the ...

in the

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, winning promotion in his

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. Lima Pereira made his division two debut on 9 August 2014, scoring the first goal in a 3–0 home win against

C.D. Feirense Clube Desportivo Feirense, commonly known as CD Feirense or just Feirense, is a Portuguese football club based in Santa Maria da Feira. Founded on 18 March 1918, Feirense play in the LigaPro, the second tier of Portuguese football. Their chair ...

. He added a further two during the campaign, in a ninth-place finish. For 2016–17, Lima Pereira signed a one-year contract with

Varzim S.C. Varzim Sport Club () is a Portuguese football team based in Póvoa de Varzim, near Porto in the north of the country. The club was founded on 25 December 1915, and has played at the Estádio do Varzim Sport Club since it was founded. The club pl ...

in the same league. His uncle

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had previously played for his hometown side. Lima Pereira left his native Norte region for the first time on 23 June 2017, agreeing to a three-year deal at second-tier

C.D. Cova da Piedade Clube Desportivo Cova da Piedade is a football club established in the parish of Cova da Piedade, municipality of Almada, Portugal. History Clube Desportivo Cova da Piedade was founded on 28 January 1947, resulting from the merge between União ...

. He went further afield in January 2019, when he joined

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of the

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on a six-month loan. After leaving Cova da Piedade in 2020, Lima Pereira played at a lower level for

AD Fafe Associação Desportiva de Fafe (abbreviated as AD Fafe) is a Portuguese football club based in Fafe in the district of Braga in northern Portugal. Background AD Fafe currently plays in the Campeonato Nacional de Seniores – Série A whi ...

F.C. Felgueiras 1932 Futebol Club de Felgueiras 1932 is an association football club based in Felgueiras, Porto District, Portugal founded in 2006 after F.C. Felgueiras ended in 2005 due to financial problems. They got promoted to play in the Liga 3 (Portugal), Li ...

and

S.C. Espinho Sporting Clube de Espinho, also known as Sporting de Espinho, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Espinho in the Aveiro district. Besides football, the club has volleyball and handball departments that usually compete in the major Po ...

Personal life

Lima Pereira's uncle,

, also played for Varzim and was a mainstay at Porto in the 1980s.

References

External links

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Portuguese League profile
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lima Pereira, Tiago 1994 births Living people People from Póvoa de Varzim Sportspeople from Porto District Portuguese footballers Association football defenders Liga Portugal 2 players Campeonato de Portugal (league) players F.C. Felgueiras players Padroense F.C. players FC Porto B players Vitória S.C. B players Varzim S.C. players C.D. Cova da Piedade players AD Fafe players F.C. Felgueiras 1932 players S.C. Espinho players Pevidém S.C. players Hong Kong Premier League players Eastern Sports Club footballers Portugal youth international footballers Portuguese expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Hong Kong Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong