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Rui António da Cruz Ferreira (born 22 March 1960), known as Nascimento, is a Portuguese retired
footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...
who played as a
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, and a current
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.


Club career

Born in
Leiria Leiria () is a city and municipality in the Central Region, Portugal, Central Region of Portugal. It is the 2nd largest city in that same region, after Coimbra, with a municipality population of 128,640 (as of 2021) in an area of . It is the seat o ...
, Nascimento made his professional debuts with local União Desportiva in 1979, after playing his youth football and starting his senior career in
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. He consolidated himself as a
Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (), also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Portugal and the highest level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga ...
player in the following seven seasons, playing with
Vitória de Setúbal Vitoria or Vitória may refer to: People * Francisco de Vitoria (c. 1483–1546), a Spanish Renaissance theologian * Alberto Vitoria (1956–2010), Spanish footballer * Rui Vitória (born 1970), Portuguese retired footballer * Sofia Vitória (bor ...
(three years) and
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(four), always as first-choice and scoring nearly 30 overall goals. At the age of 29, Nascimento signed with
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 ...
,
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the only title of his career, the national championship, but he only collected 13 appearances in a total of 542 minutes. He closed out his career at 33, after spells with lowly
F.C. Tirsense Futebol Clube Tirsense, commonly known as just Tirsense, is a Portuguese association football, football club from Santo Tirso, founded on 5 January 1938. They currently play in the Divisão de Elite of AF Porto. They currently play their home ga ...
(two years, one of those in the top flight) and Amora FC. Nascimento started his managerial career in the early 2000s, and would work mainly as an assistant, always under
Manuel Cajuda Manuel Ventura Cajuda de Sousa (born 27 June 1951) is a Portuguese football manager and retired footballer. In a career which spanned three decades, he managed nearly 20 teams in his own country, and also worked in Egypt, the United Arab Emi ...
. His first head coach experience arrived in 2006, with C.D. Pinhalnovense in the third level.


International career

Nascimento represented
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at the
1979 FIFA World Youth Championship The 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship, the second staging of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, FIFA World Youth Championship, was held in Japan from 26 August to 7 September 1979. It was the first FIFA tournament played in Asia. The tournament took place i ...
, helping his team to the quarter-finals. He went on to earn five
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for the senior side in 1987, after the vast majority of the players defected following the
Saltillo Affair The Saltillo Affair () was a series of controversies surrounding the Portugal national football team during its participation in the Mexico 1986 FIFA World Cup. The affair was named after the Mexican city of Saltillo, Coahuila, in which the team ...
at the
1986 FIFA World Cup The 1986 FIFA World Cup was the 13th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June 1986. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-tea ...
.


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nascimento 1960 births Living people Sportspeople from Leiria Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players U.D. Leiria players Vitória F.C. players Vitória S.C. players FC Porto players F.C. Tirsense players Amora F.C. players Portugal men's youth international footballers Portugal men's under-21 international footballers Portugal men's international footballers Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in France Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in France Portuguese football managers C.D. Pinhalnovense managers S.C. Covilhã managers U.D. Leiria managers Footballers from Leiria District S.C. Braga non-playing staff 20th-century Portuguese sportsmen