Miguel Areias
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Miguel Alexandre Areias Lopes | ||
| Date of birth | 2 June 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Porto, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Left back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1986–1991 | Porto | ||
| 1991–1992 | Candal | ||
| 1992–1993 | Espinho | ||
| 1993–1995 | Salgueiros | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1996 | Ermesinde | ||
| 1996–1997 | Estrela Portalegre | ||
| 1997–1998 | Juventude Ronfe | ||
| 1998–2000 | Ovarense | 61 | (11) |
| 2000–2004 | Beira-Mar | 71 | (1) |
| 2004–2007 | Porto | 9 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | → Boavista (loan) | 30 | (0) |
| 2006 | → Standard Liège (loan) | 10 | (1) |
| 2007 | → Celta (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Belenenses | 5 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | Trofense | 14 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | Leixões | 9 | (0) |
| Total | 210 | (13) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Miguel Alexandre Areias Lopes (born 2 June 1977 in Porto), known as Areias, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played mainly as a left back.
Football career
After establishing himself as a professional player with S.C. Beira-Mar, Areias joined Primeira Liga club FC Porto for the 2004–05 season but, after being rarely used, he was consecutively loaned for the duration of his contract: Boavista FC, Standard Liège (where he teamed up with former Portuguese internationals Sérgio Conceição and Ricardo Sá Pinto) and Celta de Vigo; arrived in January 2007 at the latter, he only managed one La Liga appearance during his short spell, a 0–2 home loss against RCD Espanyol.
Released, Areias signed with C.F. Os Belenenses on a free transfer, in the 2007–08 campaign.[1] Unsettled, he switched the following year to newly promoted C.D. Trofense, also in the top division: after appearing rarely as the Lisbon side finished eighth, he could not help prevent the northern newcomers from being relegated in their first season ever.
In the 2010 summer, after one year out of football, 33-year-old Areias signed with Leixões S.C. in the second division. He left at the end of the season, having appeared in less than one third of the league games for the Matosinhos-based team.
References
- ^ Areias settles at Belenenses; UEFA.com, 6 July 2007
External links
- Template:Zerozero
- Miguel Areias at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- Miguel Areias at BDFutbol
- Stats at Footballdatabase
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Porto
- Portuguese footballers
- Association football defenders
- Primeira Liga players
- Segunda Liga players
- Portuguese Second Division players
- A.D. Ovarense players
- S.C. Beira-Mar players
- FC Porto players
- Boavista F.C. players
- C.F. Os Belenenses players
- C.D. Trofense players
- Leixões S.C. players
- Belgian First Division A players
- Standard Liège players
- La Liga players
- Celta de Vigo players
- Portuguese expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Belgium
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- Portuguese expatriates in Belgium