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Miguel Monteiro, born Luis Miguel Brito García Monteiro in Lisbon, is a Portuguese association football player. He holds Portuguese citizenship and speaks Portuguese as his native language. His professional career in the sport spanned from 1998 to 2012.
Monteiro played as a defender and centre-forward for teams including S.L. Benfica, C.F. Estrela da Amadora, and Valencia CF. He also represented the Portugal national under-21 football team. On the international stage, he participated in the 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cups, as well as UEFA Euro 2004 and UEFA Euro 2008.
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Key facts
- 1994
- Alverca
- 1995
- Loures
- 2002
- Benfica B
- Full name
- Luís Miguel Brito Garcia Monteiro
- Date of birth
- ( 1980-01-04 ) 4 January 1980 (age 46)
- Place of birth
- Lisbon , Portugal
- Height
- 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
- Positions
- Right-back winger
- 1989 1994
- Sporting CP
- 1995 1996
- Olhanense
- 1996 1999
- Estrela Amadora
- Years
- Team
- 1999 2000
- Estrela Amadora
- 2000 2005
- Benfica
- 2005 2012
- Valencia
- 2000 2002
- Portugal U21
- 2003 2010
- Portugal
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Centre-Forward
- Nationality
- Portugal
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Monteiro
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Portugal
- Place of birth
- Lisbon
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Native language
- Portuguese
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 2008
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Portugal men's national football team
- Position played
- defender
- Country for sport
- Portugal
- Mass
- 77
- Image
- Luís Miguel Brito 24sept2006 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 180
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- Commons category
- Luís Miguel Brito
- date of birth
- 1980-01-04
- end of work period
- 2012-00-00
- start of work period
- 1998-00-00
- birth name
- Luis Miguel Brito García Monteiro
- name in native language
- Miguel Monteiro
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Luís Miguel Brito Garcia Monteiro OIH (born 4 January 1980), known simply as Miguel ( Portuguese pronunciation: [miˈɣɛl]), is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a right-back or a winger.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miguel Monteiro” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.