Cristóvão da Silva Ramos (born 25 March 1983), known simply as Cristóvão, is a former Portuguese

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who played as a

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Club career

Cristóvão was born in

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, France. After playing youth football with

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 ...

he made his senior debuts with the B-team in the third division, going on to spend four years with them in that tier. Released in the summer of 2005 without one single official appearance for the main squad, he joined

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 ...

club F.C. Penafiel, but left after a couple of months and moved to

Leixões S.C. Leixões Sport Club (), commonly known as Leixões, is a Portuguese sports club from Matosinhos. It is organised into several departments for many sports, such as athletics, boxing, football, futsal, handball, karate, swimming, volleyball, wat ...

in the second level, where he appeared very rarely over the course of two (incomplete) seasons. In late December 2007, Cristovão signed with AEP Paphos F.C. from

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. In the 2009 off-season he joined fellow

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team

Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. Anorthosis Famagusta (), commonly known as Anorthosis in English or Anorthosi in Greek, is a Cypriot football club, part of the Famagusta multi-sport club founded in 1911 in Varosha, Famagusta.

, making his league debut on 30 August in a 0–0 away draw against

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. On 3 February 2012, Cristóvão moved to

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with

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, signing a two-and-a-half-year contract. He scored on his first

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appearance, helping his team to a 2–1 win over

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; on 29 April 2012, he netted the only goal in a

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success against

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. Cristóvão was released by Levski in summer 2013 (alongside some of the other foreign players) mainly due to his high salary, but he returned to the club after the winter break.

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Levski official profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cristovao Da Silva Ramos 1983 births Living people French sportspeople of Portuguese descent Footballers from Lyon Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football wingers Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players FC Porto B players F.C. Penafiel players Leixões S.C. players Cypriot First Division players Cypriot Second Division players AEP Paphos FC players Anorthosis Famagusta FC players AC Omonia players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players PFC Levski Sofia players Konyaspor footballers Portugal men's youth international footballers Portugal men's under-21 international footballers Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen