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Sérgio Pinto
Personal information
Full name Sérgio Ricardo Silva Pinto
Date of birth (1980-10-16) 16 October 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
 PAOK
Number -
Youth career
1989–1993 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 96 157 (18)
2013- PAOK FC - (-)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 April 2013

Sérgio Ricardo da Silva Pinto (born 16 October 1980) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for PAOK FC as a right winger.

Having spent more than one decade playing in Germany, namely with Schalke 04 and Hannover 96, he possesses dual nationality.

Club career

Born in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto District, Pinto played four years with F.C. Porto's youth teams, moving to Germany at the age of 12 and continuing his grooming at TuS Haltern.

In 1999 he 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 1999. 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.[1] He amassed 58 league appearances in his first two years combined (eight goals scored), 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.[2]

In the subsequent top flight campaign, Pinto appeared regularly for the North Rhine-Westphalia side, netting in a 2–0 win at FC Energie Cottbus on 10 March 2007, but the team eventually finished second from bottom and suffered relegation. In the ensuing summer, he reunited with former Aachen coach Dieter Hecking at Hannover 96, joining the club on a three-year contract.

In 2013 a german newspaper called Kicker, announced that Sergio Pinto agreed in a two-year contract with PAOK Thessaloniki.

References

  1. ^ "Hecking setzt vorne weiterhin auf Meijer" (in German). kicker. 26 May 2005. Retrieved 26 May 2012. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |trans_title= (help)
  2. ^ "November 2005" (in German). Sportschau. Retrieved 23 December 2012.

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