Miguel Ângelo Moreira de Magalhães (born 19 April 1999), known as Maga, is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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Club career

Born in

Marco de Canaveses Marco de Canaveses () is a city and municipality on Porto district, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 53,450, in an area of 201.89 km2. The city itself had a population of 9,042 in 2001. Geography The city of Marco Canaveses i ...

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, Maga joined Vitória de Guimarães' academy at the age of 17. He spent the vast majority of his spell with their reserves, making his debut in the

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on 6 August 2017 in a 3–0 away loss against Varzim SC. Maga's input for the first team consisted of ten minutes as a substitute for Marcus Edwards, and he closed the 4–1 home win over

Leixões S.C. Leixões Sport Club (), commonly known as Leixões, is a Portuguese sports club from Matosinhos. It is organised into several departments for many sports, such as athletics, boxing, football, futsal, handball, karate, swimming, volleyball, wat ...

in the

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of the

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on 26 July 2021. After being released, he resumed his career in the second division with

U.D. Oliveirense União Desportiva Oliveirense (UDO), commonly known as Oliveirense, is a Portugal, Portuguese sports club from the city of Oliveira de Azeméis, in Aveiro District. The club was founded on 25 October 1922. The main football (soccer), football te ...

and F.C. Penafiel. Maga scored his first second-tier goal on 11 August 2024, helping hosts Penafiel to come from behind 3–0 and win 4–3 against his former club Oliveirense.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maga 1999 births Living people People from Marco de Canaveses 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen Portuguese men's footballers Footballers from Porto District Men's association football fullbacks Liga Portugal 2 players Campeonato de Portugal (league) players Liga 3 (Portugal) players Vitória S.C. B players Vitória S.C. players U.D. Oliveirense players F.C. Penafiel players