Quaresma with Beşiktaş in 2011
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Full name | Ricardo Andrade Quaresma Bernardo | |||||||||||
Date of birth | 26 September 1983 | |||||||||||
Place of birth | Lisbon, Portugal | |||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||
Playing position | Winger | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Beşiktaş | |||||||||||
Number | 7 | |||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||
1997–2001 | Sporting CP | |||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
2001–2003 | Sporting CP | 59 | (8) | |||||||||
2003–2004 | Barcelona | 22 | (1) | |||||||||
2004–2008 | Porto | 114 | (24) | |||||||||
2008–2010 | Inter Milan | 24 | (1) | |||||||||
2009 | → Chelsea (loan) | 4 | (0) | |||||||||
2010–2012 | Beşiktaş | 46 | (8) | |||||||||
2013 | Al-Ahli | 10 | (2) | |||||||||
2014–2015 | Porto | 42 | (10) | |||||||||
2015– | Beşiktaş | 42 | (5) | |||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||
2000 | Portugal U17 | 5 | (2) | |||||||||
2000–2001 | Portugal U19 | 4 | (0) | |||||||||
2002–2006 | Portugal U21 | 21 | (6) | |||||||||
2003– | Portugal | 62 | (8) | |||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23 January 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23 January 2017 |
Ricardo Andrade Quaresma Bernardo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁiˈkaɾdu kwɐˈɾɛʒmɐ]; born 26 September 1983) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Turkish club Beşiktaş and the Portugal national team.
Quaresma began his career at Sporting Clube de Portugal, and has also played for Barcelona, Inter Milan, Chelsea, Beşiktaş and Al-Ahli Dubai, however he spent the best years of his career at Porto. He is popular for incorporating a repertoire of tricks into his style of play, including the rabona and trivela. A winger who can play on either flank, his qualities of speed and finesse cause a regular problem for opposing defenses.
A full international since 2003, Quaresma has over 50 caps for Portugal and represented them at three European Championships, including his nation's victorious campaign at UEFA Euro 2016, also reaching the semi-finals at Euro 2012.
While he was a trainee at Sporting Clube de Portugal's famed academy, Quaresma made his professional debut during the 2000–01 season, playing 15 games for the B squad. In the next season, he was promoted to the senior squad by then club manager László Bölöni, playing 28 matches and scoring three goals and was a key player in Sporting's league and cup double triumph.