Nelson Oliveira · TheSportsDB · Courtesy of TheSportsDB
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Nélson Oliveira, born Nélson Miguel Castro Oliveira on 8 August 1991 in Barcelos, is an association football player holding citizenship of Portugal. Playing as a forward wearing squad number 9, he has represented Deportivo de La Coruña, Stade Rennais F.C., Swansea City A.F.C. and F.C. Paços de Ferreira, competing in the Premier League. He took part in UEFA Euro 2012, stood 186 tall, weighed 79, and speaks Portuguese. His career began in 2010.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1966
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Os melhores contos de Nelson de Oliveira
- O século oculto e outros sonhos provocados
- Axis mundi
- Todas as guerras
- Poeira
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma
· 2008 · cited 11,236x
- The Clavien-Dindo Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2009 · cited 10,408x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,231x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,795x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,659x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 2010
- → Rio Ave (loan)
- 2015
- → Swansea City (loan)
- 2019
- → Reading (loan)
- 2024
- Vitória Guimarães
- Full name
- Nélson Miguel Castro Oliveira
- Date of birth
- ( 1991-08-08 ) 8 August 1991 (age 34)
- Place of birth
- Barcelos, Portugal
- Height
- 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
- Position
- Forward
- Current team
- Vitória Guimarães
- 2002 2003
- Santa Maria
- 2003 2006
- Braga
- 2003 2004
- → Bairro Misericórdia (loan)
- 2006 2009
- Benfica
- Years
- Team
- 2009 2016
- Benfica
- 2010 2011
- → Paços Ferreira (loan)
- 2012 2013
- → Deportivo La Coruña (loan)
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- _Retired Soccer
- Position
- Forward
- Nationality
- Portugal
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Oliveira
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Portugal
- Place of birth
- Barcelos
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Native language
- Portuguese
- Participant in
- UEFA Euro 2012
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Vitória S.C.
- Position played
- forward
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Portugal
- Mass
- 79
- Image
- Holger Badstuber - Nélson Oliveira 20120609.jpg
- Height
- 186
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Nélson Oliveira
- date of birth
- 1991-08-08
- different from
- Nelson Oliveira
- sport number
- 7
- start of work period
- 2010-00-00
- birth name
- Nélson Miguel Castro Oliveira
- name in native language
- Nélson Oliveira
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 25 May 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 31 August 2017
Nélson Miguel Castro Oliveira CvIH ( European Portuguese: [ˈnɛlsõ ɔliˈvɐjɾɐ]; born 8 August 1991) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Primeira Liga club Vitória de Guimarães.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nélson Oliveira” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.