Nuno Filipe Oliveira dos Santos (born 19 June 1980) is a Portuguese former professional

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who played mainly as a

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but also as a full-back (right or left).

Club career

Born in

Viana do Castelo Viana do Castelo () is a concelho, municipality and seat of the district of Viana do Castelo District, Viana do Castelo in the Norte Region, Portugal, Norte Region of Portugal. The population in 2021 was 85,778, in an area of . The urbanized are ...

, Santos spent his early career in the

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and fourth divisions, reaching the Segunda Liga in 2004 with

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. Four years later he was signed by another club in that tier,

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' C.D. Santa Clara, starting in all league games during the season and scoring nine goals, including two braces. In May 2010, after being again a starter with Santa Clara in the 2009–10 campaign, the 30-year-old Santos signed a two-year contract with

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club F.C. Paços de Ferreira. He appeared in 14 matches in his

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, totalling 430 minutes of action and failing to find the net. Santos retired in 2017 at the age of 37, after spells with C.D. Tondela and Académica de Coimbra.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Santos, Nuno 1980 births Living people 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen Portuguese men's footballers Footballers from Viana do Castelo Men's association football fullbacks Men's association football forwards Men's association football utility players Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players G.D. Serzedelo players F.C. Oliveira do Hospital players S.C.U. Torreense players Académico de Viseu F.C. players U.D. Oliveirense players Varzim S.C. players C.D. Santa Clara players F.C. Paços de Ferreira players C.D. Tondela players Académica de Coimbra (football) players