Rui Filipe
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Rui Filipe Tavares de Bastos | ||
| Date of birth | 8 March 1968 | ||
| Place of birth | Vale de Cambra, Portugal | ||
| Date of death | 28 August 1994 (aged 26) | ||
| Place of death | Porto, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1981–1984 | Valecambrense | ||
| 1984–1986 | Porto | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1986–1988 | Gil Vicente | 60 | (6) |
| 1988–1990 | Espinho | 64 | (2) |
| 1990–1991 | Gil Vicente | 33 | (3) |
| 1991–1994 | Porto | 65 | (5) |
| Total | 222 | (16) | |
| International career | |||
| 1989 | Portugal U21 | 5 | (0) |
| 1992–1993 | Portugal | 6 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Rui Filipe Tavares de Bastos (8 March 1968 – 28 August 1994) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a central midfielder.
Football career
Born in
finishing 13th
.
Subsequently, Rui Filipe was bought by
his first year as the club won the league – during that timeframe, he first reached the Portugal national team
, going on be capped six times at the highest level.
In the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League he helped his team reach the semi-finals, notably opening the scoresheet at SV Werder Bremen in a 5–0 first group stage win.[1]
Rui Filipe continued to be an important midfield element for Porto in the following years. In the beginning of the
1994–95 campaign he scored in the league opener, and also helped them to the domestic Supercup after defeating S.L. Benfica, with the player starting in the first leg and being sent off; however, in late August, he died in a car accident at age 26.[2]
Honours
Porto
- Primeira Divisão: 1991–92, 1992–93, 1994–95
- Taça de Portugal: 1993–94
- Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1992, 1993, 1994
References
- ^ "Bremen 0–5 Porto". UEFA.com. 30 March 1994. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- ^ "FC Porto recorda Rui Filipe" [FC Porto remember Rui Filipe]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 28 August 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
External links
- Rui Filipe at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- Rui Filipe national team profile at the Portuguese Football Federation (in Portuguese)
- Rui Filipe at National-Football-Teams.com
- Rui Filipe at EU-Football.info
