João Pedro Sousa Silva (born 13 November 1996), known as João Pedro, is a professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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. Born in Portugal, he plays for the Guinea-Bissau national team.

Club career

Born in

Ponta Delgada Ponta Delgada (; ) is the largest municipality (''concelho'') and executive capital of the Autonomous Region of the Azores in Portugal. It is located on São Miguel Island, the largest and most populous in the archipelago. As of 2021, it has 67,2 ...

in the

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, João Pedro was a junior at hometown club C.D. Santa Clara when he made his professional debut in Segunda Liga on 23 November 2013, as a half-time substitute for Tiago Leonço in a 1–0 home loss against S.C. Braga B. The following 25 January, he scored his only goal for the team in a 3–1 away defeat to

S.C. Farense Sporting Clube Farense, simply known as Farense, is a Portuguese professional association football, football club based in Faro, Portugal, Faro in the Faro District, district of the same name and the region of Algarve. Founded in 1910, the club ha ...

. After two seasons with Gil Vicente F.C. in the second division and as many with C.D. Trofense in

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, João Pedro signed a one-year contract with

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side

Vitória S.C. Vitória Sport Clube, popularly known as Vitória de Guimarães or sometimes just Vitória, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Guimarães that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football, at the Est ...

on 5 July 2019, with the option of two more. He made his debut on 1 August in a 4–0 home win (5–0 aggregate) over AS Jeunesse Esch of Luxembourg in the

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of the

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, playing the last seven minutes in place of Alexandre Guedes. Thirteen days later, again from the bench and at the

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, he scored his first goal in a 6–0 demolition of Latvia's

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. João Pedro scored twice from ten league appearances in his first season in

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, starting with the only goal of a home win against former club Santa Clara on 18 January 2020, again as a substitute. On 1 July, he agreed to a new deal of two years with the option of as many more. However, on 20 August 2020, João Pedro joined F.C. Paços de Ferreira on a three-year contract; Vitória retained a percentage of his economic rights, and a buyback option. In February 2022, he severed his ties and moved to

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in the Turkish

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. João Pedro continued to play abroad subsequently, with Panetolikos FC (

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) and

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(Vietnamese

International career

João Pedro represented Portugal at under-20 level, appearing in the

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. He switched his allegiance to

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778. It borders Senegal to Guinea-Bissau–Senegal border, its north and Guinea to Guinea–Guinea-Bissau b ...

in 2023, earning his first

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on 13 October that year in a 1–0 friendly loss to

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Setúbal Setúbal ( , , ; ), officially the City of Setúbal (), is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the entire municipality in 2014 was 118,166, occupying an area of . The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001. It lies withi ...

References

External links

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Portuguese League profile
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Joao Pedro 1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Ponta Delgada Portuguese sportspeople of Bissau-Guinean descent 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen 21st-century Bissau-Guinean sportsmen Portuguese men's footballers Bissau-Guinean men's footballers Footballers from the Azores Men's association football forwards Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Campeonato de Portugal (league) players CU Micaelense players C.D. Santa Clara players Gil Vicente F.C. players C.D. Trofense players Vitória S.C. players Vitória S.C. B players F.C. Paços de Ferreira players TFF 1. Lig players Bursaspor footballers Super League Greece players Panetolikos F.C. players Dibba Al-Hisn SC players V.League 1 players Hanoi FC players Portugal men's youth international footballers Guinea-Bissau men's international footballers Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Bissau-Guinean expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates Expatriate men's footballers in Vietnam Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Greece Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Vietnam Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Greece Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Vietnam