Pedro Espinha
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Pedro Manuel Espinha Ferreira | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 25 September 1965 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Mafra, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Benfica Corvense | |||||||||||||||||
| 1982–1984 | Belenenses | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1984–1985 | Cova Piedade | 20 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1985–1986 | Torreense | 29 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1986–1987 |
Académica | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1987–1989 | Sacavenense | 64 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1989–1994 | Belenenses | 85 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1994–1997 | Salgueiros | 82 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–2000 | Vitória Guimarães | 97 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2002 | Porto | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Porto B | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Vitória Setúbal | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 397 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1998–2000 | Portugal | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Pedro Manuel Ferreira Espinha (born 25 September 1965) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Espinha was born in
Académica de Coimbra, S.G. Sacavenense, C.F. Os Belenenses, S.C. Salgueiros, Vitória de Guimarães, FC Porto[1]– arriving at the Primeira Liga club aged 35 and backing up legendary Vítor Baía during his two-year spell[2]– and Vitória de Setúbal
.
Espinha retired in June 2003, with a total of 249 Portuguese top-flight games to his credit.
International career
Espinha earned six caps for Portugal, including one at UEFA Euro 2000 against Germany in the group stage, keeping a clean sheet in the 3–0 win as the nation was already qualified and rested practically all its starting XI.[3][4] From 2007 onwards, he worked as a goalkeeper coach with several youth categories of the national team.[5]
Honours
Porto
References
- ^ Pedro Espinha no Porto nos próximos três anos (Pedro Espinha in Porto for the next three years); Record, 10 June 2000 (in Portuguese)
- ^ Pedro Espinha aguarda solução de empréstimo (Pedro Espinha waits for loan option); Mais Futebol, 9 January 2002 (in Portuguese)
- ^ Conceição hat-trick ousts holders Germany; UEFA, 6 October 2003
- ^ Euro 2000: Os 89 minutos mais marcantes da carreira de Pedro Espinha (Euro 2000: The most important 89 minutes in Pedro Espinha's career); Futebol 365, 23 May 2012 (in Portuguese)
- ^ Europeu Sub-19: Pedro Espinha reforça vontade de vencer da seleção (Under-19 Euro: Pedro Espinha highlights national team's will to win); Mais Futebol, 7 July 2017 (in Portuguese)
External links
- Pedro Espinha at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- Pedro Espinha at National-Football-Teams.com
