Joaquim Carvalho de Azevedo (born 23 August 1959), commonly known as Quim, is a Portuguese former

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who played as a defensive midfielder.

Club career

In a 16-year professional career,

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-born Quim played for four clubs. He started out at Rio Ave F.C. in his hometown, achieving two

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promotions with them during his six-year spell, following which he signed for

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aged 25. Quim was only regularly used in two of his five seasons with Porto, helping to the conquest of three leagues, one

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and two

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. He played the first 45 minutes of the 1986–87 European Cup

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as the team came from behind to win 2–1 against

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for their first triumph in the European Cup. Again from the bench, he appeared in that year's Intercontinental Cup, won against

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, and also took the field in the first leg of the 1987 European Super Cup aggregate victory over

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. For the 1989–90 campaign, Quim joined lowly F.C. Tirsense, contributing 2,500 minutes as the northerners achieved their best-ever classification in the top flight (ninth), after which he spent two years with S.C. Farense also at that level. He then returned to his first club Rio Ave for a couple of Segunda Liga seasons, retiring from the game at 34. Quim coached several teams in the 90s/2000s, never in higher than the Portuguese third tier.

International career

Between 1985 and 1987, Quim won four caps for

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. He was overlooked for the squad that competed 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 ...

. Quim represented the under-20s in the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship in

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, appearing in four matches for the eventual quarter-finalists.

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* * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Quim 1959 births Living people Portuguese men's footballers Footballers from Vila do Conde Men's association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Rio Ave F.C. players FC Porto players F.C. Tirsense players S.C. Farense players UEFA Champions League–winning players Portugal men's youth international footballers Portugal men's international footballers Portuguese football managers F.C. Vizela managers CU Micaelense managers 20th-century Portuguese sportsmen