Dário Furtado
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dário Osvaldo Dias Furtado | ||
| Date of birth | 14 January 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Praia, Cape Verde | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Left back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Sporting Praia | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2000 | Sporting Praia | ||
| 2000–2003 | Gil Vicente | 5 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | → Ovarense (loan) | 22 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Marco | 29 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | Paços Ferreira | 19 | (0) |
| 2005–2015 | Sporting Praia | ||
| National team‡ | |||
| 2004– | Cape Verde | 13 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2017– | Sporting Praia U-15 | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 February 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 February 2017 |
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Dário Osvaldo Dias Furtado (born 14 January 1979 in Praia), simply Dário, is a retired Cape Verdean footballer who played for Sporting Clube da Praia mainly as a left defender. He is currently manager of Sporting Praia's U-15 team.
Dário Furtado was born in the capital city of Praia in the country's early years.
When he was a teenager, he started to play for the youth club of Sporting Praia.
His first club of his profession career was Sporting Praia in 1999 and played for a season.
Dário moved in 2000 to Portugal to play for Gil Vicente FC. He would, however, only appear in five top division games for the Barcelos club over the course of two seasons, also being loaned to A.D. Ovarense whilst on contract.
He spent the majority of his career in the country in the second level (Ovarense included), appearing regularly for F.C. Marco and F.C. Paços de Ferreira, and attaining promotion with the latter in 2005.
Shortly after that season, Dário returned to his country and his first professional team Sporting Clube da Praia, going on to play the remainder of his career with his hometown club until 2015. During his continued career with that club, it would be his successful years as Sporting won back to back titles up to 2009 and another in 2012. In his second year with the club at the 2006 national championship finals, he scored a goal against Sal's Académico do Aeroporto at second leg in the 43rd minute, one of three players who scored and brought the club to win their 5th national title. A year later in the 2007 national championship finals at the second leg, he scored a goal during stoppage time against Académica do Mindelo and as it was scored away, it led the club to win a third consecutive title. Dário also played at the CAF Champions League in 2007, 2008 and in 2009. In the 2009 national semis, he scored a goal against a club also based in the city Académica on June 27, the second leg at the 18th minute which was a penalty kick. Sporting automatically qualfiied into the 2013 national championships and made little success which did not brought the club again to the playoffs. Sporting won the recent regional title and Dário also had a slight more success there and brought the club to the semis, Dário scored nothing in the semis and was his last time he played at the nationals.
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