João Paiva

João Paiva
Personal information
Full name	João Pedro de Lemos Paiva
Date of birth	8 February 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth	Lisbon, Portugal
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1993–1995	Olivais Moscavide
1995–2001	Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years	Team
2001–2003	Sporting B
2003–2004	Marítimo B
2004–2005	Espinho
2005–2007	Apollon Limassol
2008	AEK Larnaca
2008–2011	Luzern
2011–2013	Grasshoppers
2013–2014	Wohlen
2014–2016	Winterthur
2016	United Zürich
2017–2018	Dietikon
International career
2001–2002	Portugal U19
2003–2004	Portugal U20
Managerial career
2018–2021	FC Dietikon
2021	Bellinzona
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Portugal
UEFA European Under-17 Championship
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

João Pedro de Lemos Paiva (born 8 February 1983) is a Portuguese football coach and a former striker.

He spent the vast majority of his professional career in Switzerland.

Club career

Born in Lisbon, Paiva played almost exclusively lower league football in his country: having been under contract with both Sporting Clube de Portugal and Marítimo, he only appeared for both clubs' reserve sides. In the 2004–05 season he competed with Espinho in the second division, but featured in less than one third of the league games and his team was also relegated after ranking 18th and last.

Paiva then spent three years in Cyprus, with Apollon Limassol and AEK Larnaca (half a season with the latter). For 2008–09 he joined Luzern in Switzerland, scoring eleven goals in 23 matches in his first year as the side finished ninth in the Super League, only barely avoiding relegation.

In January 2011, Paiva agreed a contract with another club in the country, Grasshoppers, effective as of July.^[1]

Coaching career

Paiva was hired as the manager of Swiss club Bellinzona in July 2021.^[2] He left Bellinzona on 23 August 2021 by mutual consent due to "diverging technical views", with Bellinzona winning 2 out of 3 games under his management.^[3]

References

^ Paiva to the Hoppers, Challenge League over Champions League; Just Can't Beat That, January 2011
^ "AL VIA LA STAGIONE 2021/22!" (in Italian). AC Bellinzona. 15 July 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
^ "COMUNICATO UFFICIALE ACB - 23.08.21" (in Italian). AC Bellinzona. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2022.

External links

João Paiva at ForaDeJogo (archived)
João Paiva national team profile at the Portuguese Football Federation (in Portuguese)
João Paiva at Soccerway

[1] Paiva to the Hoppers, Challenge League over Champions League; Just Can't Beat That, January 2011

[2] "AL VIA LA STAGIONE 2021/22!" (in Italian). AC Bellinzona. 15 July 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2022.

[3] "COMUNICATO UFFICIALE ACB - 23.08.21" (in Italian). AC Bellinzona. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2022.

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