Quim (footballer, born 1975)

Quim

Personal information
Full name	Joaquim Manuel Sampaio Silva
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Braga
Number	1
Youth career
1991–1994	Braga
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1994–2004	Braga	208	(0)
2004–2010	Benfica	144	(0)
2010–	Braga	29	(0)
International career
1995	Portugal U20	5	(0)
1997–1998	Portugal U21	7	(0)
1999–2011	Portugal	32	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12 May 2012

Joaquim Manuel Sampaio da Silva, OIH, (born 13 November 1975), aka Quim (Portuguese pronunciation: [kĩ]), is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Sporting de Braga as a goalkeeper.

He played in nearly 400 top division games during his career, in representation of Braga (twelve seasons) and Benfica (six), winning five major titles for the latter.

Quim represented Portugal at the 2006 World Cup and in two European Championships, gaining more than 30 caps.

Club career

Born in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Braga, Quim started his career at Sporting Clube de Braga, where he played his first game in the first division during the 1994–95 season, becoming the club's undisputed first-choice in the following years.

Quim moved to Sport Lisboa e Benfica in 2004 and was, at first, intermittent in keeping the goalkeeper spot at his new club, having shared the goal with José Moreira in the title-winning 2004–05 campaign. Next season, he started as first-choice, but injury to him as well as Moreira saw Marcelo Moretto being signed during the winter break, controversially earning a place in the starting eleven.

Quim's fortunes turned around at the beginning of the 2006–07 season, as new coach Fernando Santos announced the former Braga player would be his first goalkeeper. Subsequently, the latter rarely put in a bad performance since regaining first-choice status, even when Santos was dismissed early into the following campaign.

In 2008–09, with Benfica retaining the same three goalkeepers under Quique Flores, Quim started the campaign, lost the job to Moreira in between, was even demoted to third-choice (with Moretto starting in the domestic league cup), and finished again as starter, with the Reds eventually finishing third. He also started the 2009 League Cup final and saved three penalty shoot-out attempts against Sporting Clube de Portugal for the win.

In 2009–10, Quim played all the matches and minutes as Benfica won the league for the first time in five years, adding to this the honour of being the keeper with less conceded goals (20). At the end of June 2010, however, the 34-year old was released, returning to first professional club Braga, on a three-year deal, but spent his first season on the sidelines, nursing an achilles tendon injury.

International career

After representing his country at every level from the under-16s upwards, and winning the UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship (then Under-18) in 1994, Quim made his senior debut in August 1999 in a 4–0 victory against Andorra, after which he was Portugal's third-choice keeper at UEFA Euro 2000, enjoying a short cameo as a substitute in the 3–0 win against Germany in the group stage's final round, before establishing himself as number one in the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign. However, a failed drug test saw him miss out on the competition held in South Korea and Japan.

Quim would be second-choice for the national side during both Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup, behind the habitual Ricardo. He was originally named in the Portugal squad for Euro 2008 but suffered a wrist injury the day before Portugal's first game, ruling him out of the tournament; he was replaced by F.C. Porto's Nuno.

Quim started the 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign as first-choice, but lost his place midway through it to another Braga player, Eduardo, as Portugal eventually qualified. After being league champion for Benfica, he would be left out of the squad for the final stages in South Africa.

Club statistics

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Honours

Club

• Portuguese League: 2004–05, 2009–10
• Portuguese Supercup: 2005
• Portuguese League Cup: 2008–09, 2009–10
• Portuguese Cup: Runner-up 2004–05

Country

• UEFA European Football Championship: Runner-up 2004

Orders

• Medal of Merit, Order of the Immaculate Conception of Vila Viçosa (House of Braganza)

See also

• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

External links

• Stats and profile at Zerozero
• Stats at ForaDeJogo
• PortuGOAL profile
• Quim at National-Football-Teams.com

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