Dário Osvaldo Dias Furtado (born 14 January 1979 in

Praia Praia (, Portuguese for "beach") is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde.footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played for

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 ...

mainly as a left defender. He is currently manager of Sporting Praia's U-15 team.

Biography

Early life

Dário Furtado was born in the capital city of Praia in the country's early years.

Club career

When he was a teenager, he started to play for the youth club of Sporting Praia. His first club of his profession career was Sporting Praia in 1999 and played for a season. Dário moved in 2000 to

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to play for

Gil Vicente FC Gil Vicente Futebol Clube (), commonly known as Gil Vicente, founded in 1924, is a Portuguese professional football club that plays in Barcelos. It plays their home matches at the Estádio Cidade de Barcelos. It competes in the Primeira Liga, the ...

. He would, however, only appear in five top division games for the Barcelos club over the course of two seasons, also being loaned to A.D. Ovarense whilst on contract. He spent the majority of his career in the country in the second level (Ovarense included), appearing regularly for

F.C. Marco Futebol Clube do Marco was a Portugal, Portuguese Association football, football team based in Marco de Canaveses Municipality, Marco de Canaveses, Porto District. Founded in 1927, it held home games at ''Estádio Municipal do Marco de Canaveses, ...

and F.C. Paços de Ferreira, and attaining promotion with the latter in 2005. Shortly after that season, Dário returned to his country and his first professional team

, going on to play the remainder of his career with his hometown club until 2015. During his continued career with that club, it would be his successful years as Sporting won back to back titles up to 2009 and another in 2012. In his second year with the club at the 2006 national championship finals, he scored a goal against Sal's

Académico do Aeroporto Académico do Aeroporto ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Akadémiku du Aeropurtu'') is a football club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Sal Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the city of Espargos in th ...

at second leg in the 43rd minute, one of three players who scored and brought the club to win their 5th national title. A year later in the 2007 national championship finals at the second leg, he scored a goal during stoppage time against

Académica do Mindelo Associação Académica do Mindelo ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Akadémika'', São Vicente Crioulo: ''Académica'' or ''Akadémika'') is a football club that had played in the Premier division and the São Vicente Island League in ...

and as it was scored away, it led the club to win a third consecutive title. Dário also played at the CAF Champions League in 2007, 2008 and in 2009. In the 2009 national semis, he scored a goal against a club also based in the city Académica on June 27, the second leg at the 18th minute which was a penalty kick. Sporting automatically qualified into the

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national championships and made little success which did not brought the club again to the playoffs. Sporting won the recent regional title and Dário also had a slight more success there and brought the club to the semis, Dário scored nothing in the semis and was his last time he played at the nationals.

International career

Dário made his debut for

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in 2004, aged 25. He played once for the national team in the

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, appearing 15 minutes in a 1–2 away loss against

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. In August 2009, after Cape Verde was eliminated from the

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, Dário was called up for friendlies with

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and

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, scoring in the latter game (1–1 draw). On 24 May, he appeared in a friendly in

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with

– who was preparing for the World Cup in

– playing the entire match as the minnows (ranked 117th) managed a 0–0 draw.

Managerial career

In early 2017, he started coaching the U-15 club of

, one of the youth clubs that he once played.

Honours

Cape Verdean Football Championship The Cape Verdean Football Championship or the Campeonato Caboverdiano de Futebol is a football competition that was created in 1976 in Cape Verde. A local championship was founded in 1953 before independence, when the islands were still part of ...

s winner:

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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

: Santiago South Zone Championships winner: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010,

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

: Santiago South Zone Cup winner: 2014

References

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