Ricardo Jorge Oliveira António (born 6 August 1998), known as Ricardinho, is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a winger or

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for

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 ...

club Santa Clara.

Club career

Born in

Santa Maria da Feira Santa Maria da Feira () is a city and a concelho, municipality in Aveiro District in Portugal, 23 km from central Porto. The population in 2011 was 139,309,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, ...

, Ricardinho played youth football with

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 ...

and Rio Ave FC, starting his senior career with the latter's under-23 and

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s. He joined C.D. Santa Clara in 2019, and shortly after went on successive loans with third division clubs S.C. Praiense and S.C.U. Torreense. Ricardinho returned to the Estádio de São Miguel for the 2021–22 season. He made his professional debut on 1 August 2021 in the

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of the

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against

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, as a 76th-minute substitute for Carlos; his team won on a

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after a 0–0 away draw. His

bow was a 3–0 loss at C.D. Tondela a week later, also off the bench. His first professional goal was on 26 October, in a 3–1 win over

in the League Cup. Ricardinho scored for the first time in the Portuguese top flight on 7 January 2022, closing the 3–2 home defeat of

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shortly after having replaced Crysan.

Career statistics

Honours

Santa Clara *

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: 2023–24

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ricardinho 1998 births Living people 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen Portuguese men's footballers Footballers from Santa Maria da Feira Men's association football midfielders Men's association football wingers Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Campeonato de Portugal (league) players Padroense F.C. players Rio Ave F.C. players C.D. Santa Clara players S.C. Praiense players S.C.U. Torreense players