João Afonso Paula da Silva (born 1 February 1998) is a Portuguese professional
footballer
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who plays as a
defender for Italian
Serie D
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club
Akragas
Agrigento (; or ) is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento.
Founded around 582 BC by Greek colonisation, Greek colonists from Gela, Agrigento, then known as Akragas, was one of the leading citie ...
.
Football career
On 27 October 2018, Silva made his professional debut with
Trapani
Trapani ( ; ; ) is a city and municipality (''comune'') with 54,887 inhabitants, on the west coast of Sicily, in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. Founded by Elymians, the city is still an important fishing port and the mai ...
in a
2018–19 Serie C
The 2018–19 Serie C was the 60th season of the Serie C, the third tier of the Italian football league system, organized by the Lega Pro.
Teams
The league originally featured 60 teams. However, it saw the bankruptcy and subsequent withdrawal o ...
match against
Cavese.
On 29 January 2020, he signed with
Serie C
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club
Bisceglie
Bisceglie (; ) is a city and municipality of 55,251 inhabitants in the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, in the Apulia region (''Italian'': ''Puglia''), in southern Italy. The municipality has the fourth highest population in the province .
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1998 births
Living people
Footballers from Coimbra
Portuguese men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Serie B players
Serie C players
Serie D players
Campeonato de Portugal (league) players
Palermo FC players
FC Trapani 1905 players
AS Bisceglie Calcio 1913 players
SSD FC Messina players
S.C. Olhanense players
USD Città di Fasano players
FC Lamezia Terme players
ASD Chieri players
ASD Akragas 2018 players
Portugal men's youth international footballers
Portuguese expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Italy
21st-century Portuguese sportsmen
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