Reinaldo Almeida Lopes da Silva, known as Reinaldo (born 16 January 1965) is a former Portuguese

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player. He played 11 seasons and 231 games (scoring 42 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

União de Leiria União Desportiva de Leiria (), commonly known as União de Leiria, is a Portuguese professional Association football, football club based in Leiria. Founded on 6 June 1966, it currently plays in the Liga Portugal 2, holding home matches at Está ...

Académica de Coimbra The Associação Académica de Coimbra (AAC) is the students' union of the University of Coimbra (UC). Founded in Coimbra on November 3, 1887, it is the oldest students' union in Portugal. It is also the biggest Portuguese students' union belongin ...

Penafiel Penafiel ( or ) is a Municipalities of Portugal, municipality and former bishopric (now a Latin Catholic titular see) in the Norte Region, Portugal, northern Portugal, Portuguese Porto District, district of Porto. Capital of the Tâmega Subregion ...

and Alcobaça.

Club career

He made his

debut for Alcobaça on 22 August 1982 as a late substitute in a 1–1 draw against

Rio Ave Rio Ave Futebol Clube, commonly known as Rio Ave (), is a Portuguese professional football club based in Vila do Conde, that competes in the Primeira Liga. The club is named after the Ave River, which flows through the town and into the Atlant ...

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1965 births People from Caldas da Rainha Living people Portuguese men's footballers Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players G.C. Alcobaça players Académica de Coimbra (football) players F.C. Penafiel players U.D. Leiria players S.C. Campomaiorense players Men's association football forwards Footballers from Leiria District 20th-century Portuguese sportsmen {{Portugal-footy-forward-stub