André Filipe Claro de Jesus (born 31 March 1991), known as Claro, is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a

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for

SC São João de Ver SC São João de Ver is a professional association football club based in the parish of São João de Ver, municipality of Santa Maria da Feira, Aveiro District, District of Aveiro Portugal. The team competes in Liga 3 (Portugal), Liga 3, the th ...

Club career

Born in

Vila Nova de Gaia Vila Nova de Gaia (; ), or simply Gaia, is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal, Norte Region, Portugal. It is located south of the city of Porto on the other side of the Douro River. The city proper had a populati ...

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, Claro arrived in

FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, Order of Prince Henry, MHIH, Order of Merit (Portugal), 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 association footbal ...

's youth system in 2004, aged 13. He went on to progress through every youth rank at the club, being occasionally summoned to the first team for training. Released by the ''Dragons'' in the summer of 2010, Claro signed for

F.C. Famalicão Futebol Clube de Famalicão, commonly known as Famalicão, is a Portuguese professional association football, football club from Vila Nova de Famalicão. Founded on 21 August 1931, its senior team currently plays in the Primeira Liga, the top tie ...

in the fourth division, scoring 14 goals in 32 matches in his first season which ended in promotion to the third tier. He added ten in 30 the following campaign. Claro joined

F.C. Arouca Futebol Clube de Arouca () is a professional Association football, football club based in the Porto metropolitan area. Founded in 1951, the club plays in the Primeira Liga, holding home games at Estádio Municipal de Arouca, with a 5,600-seat capac ...

of the Segunda Liga for

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, scoring in only his second game in the competition, a 3–0 away win against F.C. Penafiel on 22 August 2012. He contributed 31 appearances and four goals, as the team promoted to the

Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (), also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Portugal and the highest level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga ...

for the first time in their history. He made his debut in the competition on 18 August 2013 by coming on as a late substitute in a 5–1 away loss to

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

, and scored for the first time on 22 December that year in a 3–0 away defeat of Gil Vicente F.C. where he netted a brace. On 13 July 2015, after his contract expired, Claro signed a two-year deal with

Vitória F.C. Vitória Futebol Clube (), popularly known as Vitória de Setúbal, is a Portuguese professional Association football, football club based in Setúbal that used to compete in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football league system ...

also in the top flight. He scored a career-best (at the professional level) 12 goals in his first season, as they narrowly avoided relegation; this included two in the 3–1 victory at C.D. Tondela on 20 December. After further spells in the main division with

G.D. Estoril Praia Grupo Desportivo Estoril Praia (), commonly known as Estoril, is a Portuguese professional sports club from Estoril, Cascais, Lisbon. Founded on 17 May 1939, its Association football, football team currently plays in Primeira Liga and hold home g ...

and

Boavista FC Boavista Futebol Clube (), commonly known as Boavista, is a Portuguese professional sports club from the of Porto that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football, at the Estádio do Bessa. It is one of the oldest clubs ...

, Claro resumed his career in the second tier with Académica de Coimbra,

Leixões SC The Port of Leixões (, ) is one of Portugal's major seaports, located 4 km north of the mouth of the Douro River, in Matosinhos municipality, near the city of Porto. Leixões Sport Club, commonly known simply as ''Leixões'', is Matosinho ...

, U.D. Vilafranquense and Académico de Viseu FC. He then moved to the Moroccan

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with

Union de Touarga Union Touarga Sport is a professional football club based in the Touarga district of Rabat, Morocco, that competes in Botola, the top flight of Moroccan football. The club was founded in 1971. It played in the Amateur1 Championship in 2019-20 ...

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