Ricardo Matos (footballer, born 1979)

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Ricardo Matos
Personal information
Full name Ricardo Filipe Rodrigues Matos
Date of birth (1979-02-15) 15 February 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth Santo Ildefonso, Portugal
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1987–1990 Boavista
1990–1997 Senhora da Hora
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–1998 Senhora da Hora
1998–1999 União Montemor 0 (0)
1999–2000 Sandinenses 3 (0)
2000–2001 Limianos
2001–2002 Serzedelo
2002–2004 Rio Tinto
2004–2007 Tirsense
2007–2008 Famalicão
2008 Ribeirão 19 (0)
2008–2009 Varzim 7 (0)
2009–2012 Vitória Setúbal 2 (0)
2012–2013 Leixões 1 (0)
2013–2014 Porto B 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ricardo Filipe Rodrigues Matos (born 15 February 1979) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Club career[edit]

Born in Santo Ildefonso (Porto), Matos competed in the Portuguese fourth division for the better part of his career, having two spells in the third: in the 1999–2000 season he played with G.D.R.C. Os Sandinenses, representing G.D. Ribeirão in 2007–08.

In the 2008–09 campaign, Matos was second-choice at Varzim S.C. in the Segunda Liga.[1] In the following summer, aged already 30, he signed for Primeira Liga side Vitória F.C. along with nine other players,[2] despite the club's precarious financial situation.[3]

Matos acted as backup in his first season in Setúbal, making his first official appearance on 8 May 2010 in a 1–2 home defeat against already relegated C.F. Os Belenenses.[4] Vitória narrowly managed to avoid the drop.

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