Nuno Espírito Santo

Nuno Espírito Santo
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Personal information
Nuno
Full name	Nuno Herlander Simões Espírito Santo
Date of birth	January 25, 1974 (1974-01-25) (age 34)
Place of birth	São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	FC Porto
Number	33
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992-1996 1997-2002 1998-2000 2000-2001 2002-2004 2005-2006 2007 2007-	Vitória Guimarães Deportivo La Coruña →Mérida UD (loan) →Osasuna (loan) FC Porto Dynamo Moscow Desportivo Aves FC Porto	- (-) 4 (0) - (-) 33 (0) 6 (0) 11 (0) 15 (0) 5 (0)
National team²
	Portugal U-21
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of October 31, 2008. ² National team caps and goals correct as of October 31, 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Nuno Herlander Simões Espírito Santo (born 25 January 1974 in São Tomé), known as Nuno, is a Portuguese football goalkeeper, currently with Portuguese Liga's F.C. Porto.

Nuno started his football career with Vitória Sport Clube in Guimarães, without much individual success. In January 1997, he was snapped by La Liga's Deportivo de La Coruña, but would spend three of his six seasons in Galicia on loan, having backed up Jacques Songo'o (1996-98) and José Francisco Molina (2001-02) when he was part of the team.

FC Porto paid €3m to bring Nuno back from Spain, on July 2002. On December 12, 2004, he replaced Porto great Vítor Baía during extra time of the European/South American Cup final penalty shootout victory against Once Caldas. However, in January, he was sold to Russian Premier League side of FC Dynamo Moscow.

Again in January, in 2007, Nuno returned to Portugal, for a stint with eventually relegated Clube Desportivo das Aves, In July, he returned to FC Porto, backing up Brazilian Helton.

Uncapped, Nuno was called to the Portuguese squad competing on Euro 2008, replacing the injured Quim.

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FC Porto – current squad

1 Helton • 2 B. Alves • 3 P. Emanuel • 4 Stepanov • 5 Benitez • 6 Guarín • 8 Lucho • 9 Lisandro • 10 Rodríguez • 11 Mariano • 12 Hulk • 13 Fucile • 14 Rolando • 15 Lino • 16 Meireles • 17 Sektioui • 18 Bolatti • 19 Farías • 20 Costa • 21 Săpunaru • 23 Candeias • 24 Ventura • 25 Fernando • 26 Castro • 28 Adriano • 29 Edgar • 30 Pelé • 33 Nuno • Manager: J. Ferreira

v • d • e Portugal squad – UEFA Euro 2008

1 Ricardo • 2 P. Ferreira • 3 B. Alves • 4 Bosingwa • 5 F. Meira • 6 R. Meireles • 7 Ronaldo • 8 Petit • 9 H. Almeida • 10 Moutinho • 11 Simão • 12 Nuno • 13 Miguel • 14 J. Ribeiro • 15 Pepe • 16 R. Carvalho • 17 Quaresma • 18 Veloso • 19 Nani • 20 Deco • 21 N. Gomes • 22 R. Patrício • 23 H. Postiga • Coach: Scolari

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