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Luís Pedro de Freitas Pinto Trabulo (born 22 August 1994), known as Pité, is a Portuguese professional
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who plays as a
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for
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club Torreense. He played 82 games and scored six goals in the
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 ...
for
Tondela Tondela () is a concelho, municipality in the Centro, Portugal, central Portugal, Portuguese subregion of Dão-Lafões. The population in 2011 was 28,946, in an area of 371.22 km2. History Local writer and intellectual Amadeu Ferraz de Carv ...
and Arouca but spent most of his career in the second tier, making over 100 appearances for
Beira-Mar Sport Clube Beira-Mar (), commonly known as Beira-Mar, is a Portuguese sports club based in Aveiro, Portugal. Its Association football, football team currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal (league), Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth natio ...
, Porto B, Arouca and
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and winning the title with the second of those teams in
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. Pité played for the Portugal Olympic team at the 2016 tournament.


Club career


Beira-Mar

Born in the town of
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,
Aveiro District Aveiro District (, ) is located in the central coastal region of Portugal. The capital of the district is the city of Aveiro, which also serves as the seat of Aveiro Municipality. Aveiro District is bordered by the Porto District to the north, ...
, Pité joined local
S.C. Beira-Mar Sport Clube Beira-Mar (), commonly known as Beira-Mar, is a Portuguese sports club based in Aveiro, Portugal. Its football team currently plays in the Campeonato de Portugal, the fourth national level, having gained promotion by winning the Ave ...
's youth system in 2005, aged 11. He made his debut with the first team on 27 July 2013, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–0 away loss against
Portimonense S.C. Portimonense Sporting Clube is a Portuguese sports club based in Portimão. Founded on 14 August 1914, it is most notable for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Liga Portugal 2, the second division of Portuguese footbal ...
in the
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of the
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. His maiden appearance in the Segunda Liga took place on 12 August, in a 2–3 home defeat to
FC Porto B Futebol Clube do Porto B, commonly known as Porto B, is a Portuguese professional football team, which serves as the reserve side of FC Porto. They compete in the Liga Portugal 2, the second division of Portuguese football, and play their home ...
. Pité scored his first goal as a senior on 2 October 2013, helping to a 3–2 win at C.D. Santa Clara. He missed only seven matches during the campaign, helping to a 12th-place finish amongst 22 teams.


Porto

On 1 July 2014, Pité signed for
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 ...
, being assigned to the reserves also in the second division. He spent two seasons playing for them, split roughly between starting games and coming on as a substitute. Pité was called up for the first team for their League Cup
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against
C.D. Feirense Clube Desportivo Feirense, commonly known as CD Feirense or just Feirense, is a Portuguese association football, football club based in Santa Maria da Feira. Founded on 18 March 1918, Feirense play in the LigaPro, the second tier of football in ...
on 27 January 2016, remaining unused by manager José Peseiro in the 2–0 away loss.


Tondela

On 15 July 2016, Pité was loaned to
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club C.D. Tondela for the season. He made 15 appearances across all competitions as it finally avoided relegation, scoring once as consolation in a 1–2 home loss to
F.C. Arouca Futebol Clube de Arouca () is a professional Association football, football club based in the Porto metropolitan area. Founded in 1951, the club plays in the Primeira Liga, holding home games at Estádio Municipal de Arouca, with a 5,600-seat capac ...
on 8 January 2017. Pité joined on a permanent basis on 7 June 2017, until 2020.


Arouca

Out of work since leaving Tondela, Pité found a new team on 13 January 2021, joining second-tier Arouca on an 18-month deal. He scored his first goals on the final day of the season on 22 May, ensuring a play-off place with two in a 3–1 home victory over G.D. Chaves; three days later he scored the opening goal against Rio Ave F.C. in a 3–0 win in the play-off first leg (5–0 aggregate). In his top-flight season at the
Estádio Municipal de Arouca The Estádio Municipal de Arouca is an association football stadium located in Arouca, Portugal, which is used by F.C. Arouca as their home ground. Owned by the local municipality, it was built in 2006 while Arouca were still playing in the Ave ...
, Pité was most often a substitute. In that role, he scored an added-time equaliser in a 2–2 draw with
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on 18 September 2021.


Mafra

On 9 June 2022, Pité signed a two-year deal to be C.D. Mafra's first signing ahead of the second-division campaign.


International career

On 17 July 2016, Pité was called to the Portugal Olympic squad due to appear in the year's
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, replacing Nuno Santos. He came on for Porto's
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midway through the second half of the group stage opener against
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, and scored the final 2–0 in the 84th minute following a blunder from
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Gerónimo Rulli.


Career statistics


Honours

Porto B * Segunda Liga: 2015–16


References


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pite 1994 births Living people 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen Portuguese men's footballers Footballers from Aveiro, Portugal Men's association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players S.C. Beira-Mar players FC Porto B players C.D. Tondela players F.C. Arouca players C.D. Mafra players S.C.U. Torreense players Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Portugal