Nuno Gomes
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Gomes celebrating a goal for Benfica in 2007
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| Full name | Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 5 July 1976 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Amarante, Portugal | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Striker | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 1987–1990 | Amarante | ||||||||||||||
| 1990–1994 | Boavista | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1994–1997 | Boavista | 79 | (23) | ||||||||||||
| 1997–2000 | Benfica | 101 | (60) | ||||||||||||
| 2000–2002 | Fiorentina | 53 | (14) | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2011 | Benfica | 192 | (65) | ||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Braga | 20 | (6) | ||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Blackburn Rovers | 18 | (4) | ||||||||||||
| Total | 463 | (158) | |||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||
| 1990 | Portugal U15 | 3 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Portugal U16 | 9 | (4) | ||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Portugal U17 | 5 | (2) | ||||||||||||
| 1993–1994 | Portugal U18 | 15 | (5) | ||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Portugal U20 | 13 | (9) | ||||||||||||
| 1995–1997 | Portugal U21 | 14 | (5) | ||||||||||||
| 1996 | Portugal U23 | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||||
| 1996–2011 | Portugal | 79 | (29) | ||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro, OIH (born 5 July 1976), known as Nuno Gomes, is a former Portuguese professional footballer who played as a striker.
He was given the nickname Gomes during childhood after Fernando Gomes, and was one of the country's most recognisable offensive players in the 1990s and 2000s; he consistently scored for both club and country, and was also capable of being a good link-up player, accumulating a number of assists throughout his career, which was spent mainly with Benfica, for which he netted 166 goals in 398 games over the course of 12 seasons.
Gomes represented Portugal in two World Cups and three European Championships. He helped the national team finish second at Euro 2004 and third at Euro 2000, and won more than 100 caps all categories comprised (nearly 80 for the senior side alone).
Born in Amarante, Gomes established his reputation with Boavista FC, where he made his Primeira Liga debut in the 1994–95 season, aged 18. He collected his first silverware as his team beat S.L. Benfica to lift the Taça de Portugal in 1997, scoring one goal in a 3–2 win in the final.
Gomes ranked joint-fourth top scorer in his last year at the Estádio do Bessa, before moving to Benfica. In the 1998–99 campaign he netted 34 times across all competitions, in an eventual third-place finish in the league.
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