Mano_(Portuguese_footballer)

Mano (footballer, born 1987)

Mano (footballer, born 1987)

Portuguese footballer


Luís Miguel Lopes Mendes (born 9 April 1987), known as Mano, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays mainly as a right-back.

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Club career

A product of C.F. Os Belenenses' youth system, Lisbon-born Mano first appeared with the first team on 4 February 2007 in a 1–0 away win against Vitória de Setúbal.[2] He had to wait until the 2008–09 season to become an important member of the main squad.

Mano featured in 28 games in the 2009–10 campaign but Belenenses finished as second-bottom in the Primeira Liga, dropping down to the Segunda Liga.[3] In August 2010 he moved to Villarreal CF B in Spain,[4] playing 31 Segunda División matches in his first year (27 starts) as the Valencians retained their league status; his debut in the latter competition took place later that month, when he came on as a late substitute in the 3–0 away loss to Real Valladolid.[5]

On 5 June 2012, following a brief spell in the Super League Greece with Levadiakos FC, Mano returned to Portugal and signed a two-year contract with G.D. Estoril Praia.[6] He appeared in 27 games in his second season, helping to a best ever fourth-place finish and qualification for the UEFA Europa League.[7]

Mano joined Vitória Setúbal in June 2018, on a two-year deal.[8]

International career

Born in Portugal of Cape Verdean descent,[9] Mano represented Portugal at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup,[10] also appearing in other minor tournaments. In the competition held in Canada, in the round-of-16 defeat against Chile (1–0), he was going to be sent off by referee Subkhiddin Mohd Salleh for a foul when teammate Zequinha stripped the judge of his red card, receiving his marching orders as well;[11][12] subsequently, both players were suspended from international football, Mano for three months.[13]

Mano won the first of two caps for the under-21 side on 23 March 2007, featuring the second half of a 2–0 friendly victory over Slovakia.[14]


References

  1. "Mano" (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  2. V. Setúbal-Belenenses, 0–1 (Dady 10); Record, 4 February 2007 (in Portuguese)
  3. Referee loses his red card Archived 8 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine; Soccer Blog, 13 July 2007
  4. Zequinha suspended for one year; Mano for three months Archived 18 July 2009 at the Portuguese Web Archive; World Cup Blog, 28 July 2007

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