Sérgio Pinto (footballer, born 1980)
Pinto with Fortuna Düsseldorf in 2014
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sérgio Ricardo da Silva Pinto | ||
| Date of birth | 16 October 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Winger | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1991–1993 | Porto | ||
| 1993–1995 | TuS Haltern | ||
| 1995–1999 | Schalke 04 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1999–2004 | Schalke 04 | 23 | (0) |
| 2000–2004 | Schalke 04 II | 87 | (35) |
| 2004–2007 | Alemannia Aachen | 87 | (10) |
| 2007–2013 | Hannover 96 | 160 | (19) |
| 2013–2014 | Levante | 18 | (0) |
| 2014–2016 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 21 | (1) |
| Total | 396 | (65) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Sérgio Ricardo da Silva Pinto (born 16 October 1980) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a right winger.
Having spent more than one decade playing in Germany, mainly with Schalke 04 and Hannover 96, he possessed dual nationality. He amassed Bundesliga totals of 212 games and 21 goals, over the course of ten seasons.
Born in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto District, Pinto played two years with FC Porto's youth teams, moving to Germany at the age of 12 with his family and settling in the North-Rhine-Westphalia town of Haltern am See. He then continued his football grooming at TuS Haltern.
In 1999, Pinto made his Bundesliga debut with FC Schalke 04 after playing four years at the club as a youth, appearing twice for the first team in the 1999–2000 season, the first game being a 2–3 away loss against Bayer 04 Leverkusen on 11 September. Most of his spell, however, was spent with the club's reserves, as he only appeared in 21 matches more in four years.
Pinto signed for Alemannia Aachen of the second division for 2004–05, for a transfer fee of €125,000. He amassed 58 league appearances in his first two years combined whilst scoring eight goals, achieving promotion in his second; on 25 November 2005, after helping to a 2–1 home win against SC Paderborn 07, he received the Tor des Monats (Goal of the Month) award from the ARD.
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