Pedro Miguel da Cunha e Sá (born 1 December 1993) is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a

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for

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Club career

Born in

Póvoa de Varzim Póvoa de Varzim () is a Portugal, Portuguese city in Norte Region, Portugal, Northern Portugal and sub-region of Greater Porto, from its city centre. It sits in a sandy coastal plain, a cuspate foreland, halfway between the Minho River, Minho ...

, Sá joined hometown club

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's youth ranks at the age of 9. He made his senior debut with eight games in the third division in 2012–13, and played regularly in the next three seasons,

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of which in Segunda Liga; he also appeared in two matches for their reserves in the

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's first district league. Ahead of the 2016–17 campaign, Sá signed with Portimonense S.C. of the same league– in July 2018, a court in Póvoa de Varzim ordered his previous club to pay some of the transfer fee to his agents, Foot Emotions. The team from the

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won promotion in his first year, as champions. Sá made his

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debut on 7 August 2017, playing the entire 2–1 home win against

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. He added a further 27 appearances during the season, scoring in a 3–3 draw at

Vitória S.C. Vitória Sport Clube, popularly known as Vitória de Guimarães or sometimes just Vitória, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Guimarães that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football, at the Est ...

on 23 October. In January 2019, Sá signed a new contract lasting until 2023, with a

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of €30 million. He injured his elbow in December of the following year, requiring surgery; in one of his first games back on 20 March 2021 he was

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at the end of a 2–1 home loss to

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. That 6 November, he scored his first league goal for over four years, concluding a 2–0 victory over

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also at the Estádio Municipal de Portimão. On 30 June 2023, Sá joined recently-promoted C.F. Estrela da Amadora on a two-year deal as a

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. The 30-year-old moved abroad for the first time in July 2024, joining

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side

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until June 2026.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sa, Pedro 1993 births Living people Portuguese men's footballers Footballers from Póvoa de Varzim Men's association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players Campeonato de Portugal (league) players Varzim S.C. players Portimonense S.C. players C.F. Estrela da Amadora players Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 players CS Sfaxien players Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Tunisia Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Tunisia 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen MFK Vyškov players Czech National Football League players Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic