Gonçalo Pinto de Mesquita Viegas Malheiro (born 11 May 1978, in

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) is a Portuguese

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footballer. He plays as a fly-half. He works as a civil engineer. He took his degree at

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. Malheiro played at first at CDUP. He spent a season at Madrid 2012, in 2004/05, where he became a professional and was the top scorer of the Spanish League, with 249 points scored. He had 39 caps for

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, since his debut, in 1998, scoring a total of 261 points (8 tries, 25 conversions, 42 penalties and 15 drop goals). This makes him the current top scorer for the "Lobos". Malheiro played twice at the

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finals, with

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, in a 108–13 loss, scoring the first drop goal of the tournament, and

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, in a narrow 14–10 loss, scoring a penalty. His last cap was at the 8–23 loss to Romania, at 1 December 2007, for the

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