António Sérgio Lopes Tavares (born 12 June 1987) is a Cape Verdean international

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who plays for Portuguese club

S.C.U. Torreense Sport Clube União Torreense is a Portuguese sports club, best known for its association football section, founded in Torres Vedras in 1917, as Sport União Torreense. History It participated six times in the Portuguese Liga (last in 1991–92 ...

, as a

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Career

Born in Tarrafal, Tavares has played for

Estrela dos Amadores Clube de Futebol Estrela dos Amadores ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Strela dus Amadoris'' and the São Vicente Crioulo: ''Estrela dos Amadores'') is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Santiago Island League North Zone in Cap ...

Sporting Clube da Praia Sporting Clube da Praia, short form: Sporting Praia ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK as well as Badiu: ''Sporting Klubi di Praia'') is a professional football club that plays in the Santiago South Premier Division in Cape Verde. It is bas ...

, Anadia,

Primeiro de Agosto Clube Desportivo 1º de Agosto is a multisports club from Luanda, Angola. The club, founded 1 August 1977, is attached to the Angolan armed forces, which is its sponsor. Its main team competes in men's football, and its professional basketball t ...

, Benfica de Luanda and Oriental de Lisboa. In June 2016 he signed for Académica. He made his international debut for

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in 2009.

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* 1987 births Living people Cape Verdean men's footballers Men's association football midfielders People from Tarrafal Footballers from Santiago, Cape Verde CF Estrela dos Amadores players Sporting Clube da Praia players Santiago South Premier Division players C.D. Primeiro de Agosto players S.L. Benfica (Luanda) players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players Anadia F.C. players Casa Pia A.C. players Clube Oriental de Lisboa players Académica de Coimbra (football) players S.C.U. Torreense players Cape Verde men's international footballers Cape Verdean expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Angola Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Angola Cape Verdean expatriate sportspeople in Portugal {{CapeVerde-footy-bio-stub