Pedro Alexandre Mendes Marques (born 31 March 1988), commonly known as Pedrito, is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a

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Football career

Born in

Figueira da Foz Figueira da Foz (), officially Figueira da Foz City (), often called simply Figueira for short, is a city and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. Practically at the midpoint of the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coa ...

Coimbra District Coimbra District (, or ) is located in the Centro Region, Portugal. The district capital is the city of Coimbra. Municipalities The district is composed by 17 municipalities: * Arganil * Cantanhede * Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ), of ...

, Marques played youth football with three clubs, including

Sporting Clube de Portugal Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

from ages 11–15. He moved abroad in 2006, going on to spend his last as a junior with

Real Madrid Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional Football club (association football), football club based in Madrid. The club competes in La Liga, th ...

. In Spain, Marques never competed in higher than

Segunda División B Segunda División B (English: second division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish ...

, representing

Real Madrid C Real Madrid Club de Fútbol C, commonly known as Real Madrid C, is a Spanish association football team, and is Real Madrid's second reserve team. They play in , holding their home games at La Ciudad del Real Madrid in Valdebebas outside the cit ...

and

CD San Roque de Lepe Club Deportivo San Roque de Lepe, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Lepe, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1956 it plays in , holding home games at ''Estadio Ciudad de Lepe'', with a capacity of 3,512 seats. Season ...

. In the 2011–12 season, he did not feature for any team. Marques returned to his country in the 2012 summer, signing with

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 ...

in the third level. He changed sides and countries again in the following

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, going on to make his professional debut in the Angolan

Girabola Girabola, or ''Campeonato Nacional de Futebol de Séniores Masculinos'', is the top division of Angolan association football, football. It is organized by the Angolan Football Federation. The term "Girabola" () is a creation of the nationalist, ...

with C.R.D. Libolo and later playing with G.D. Interclube also in that nation. On 31 March 2016, Marques agreed to a contract with Bulgarian club

PFC Beroe Stara Zagora Professional Football Club Beroe Stara Zagora, better known as just Beroe (), is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Stara Zagora, that competes in the Bulgarian First Professional League, First League, the top division o ...

after a successful trial period. He was released in December. In January 2017, Marques joined

Gil Vicente Gil Vicente (; c. 1465c. 1536), called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often refe ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Marques, Pedro 1988 births Living people People from Figueira da Foz Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Segunda Divisão players Associação Naval 1º de Maio players S.C. Farense players Segunda División B players Tercera División players Real Madrid C footballers CD San Roque de Lepe footballers C.R.D. Libolo players G.D. Interclube players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players PFC Beroe Stara Zagora players Gil Vicente F.C. players Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Angola Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Footballers from Coimbra District 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen