Jorge Manuel Plácido Bravo da Costa (born 19 June 1964), known as Plácido, is a Portuguese retired

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who played as a

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. He played for 11 clubs in a 19-year professional career, in both Portugal and France. He amassed

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totals of 192 games and 30 goals over a decade, and was also a

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Club career

Born in

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, Plácido made his professional and

debut aged 17, with lowly Amora FC. After showing promise at his following two clubs,

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 ...

and G.D. Chaves (with eight goals, he helped the latter to

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for the

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for the only time in its history) the 23-year-old signed for

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 ...

, but failed to adjust grossly. Plácido moved to the French

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with

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in summer 1988, but he failed to establish himself, mainly due to a serious injury. In the following

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he returned to Portugal after being loaned to

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, but was also used sparingly; he suffered relegation in his second season with Racing. A second spell at Porto in the 1990–91 campaign also proved unassuming, as he only appeared in four matches for the side, all from the bench. After one more year in Portugal, at S.C. Salgueiros – where, in the

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, he scored the only goal in the first leg of the first round against

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, but missed his attempt in the second in a

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loss – Plácido returned to France, continuing to play until the age of 37 in the country's

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and fourth tiers in representation of

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, US Lusitanos and Saint-Denis FC.

International career

Plácido earned three

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for

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, scoring twice. His arrival coincided with the defection of practically all of the members of the national team after the infamous

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at the

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. On 29 March 1987, Plácido's most important moment in the international scene arrived as his brace helped to avoid a shock defeat in

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against

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for the

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qualifiers (2–2).

Honours

Porto *

: 1987–88 *

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: 1987–88, 1990–91 *

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1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

* Intercontinental Cup:

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