Ricardo Esgaio
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ricardo de Sousa Esgaio | ||
Date of birth | 16 May 1993 | ||
Place of birth | Nazaré, Portugal | ||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Position(s) | Winger / Right back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Braga | ||
Number | 47 | ||
Youth career | |||
2001–2005 | Nazarenos | ||
2005–2012 | Sporting CP | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2011–2017 | Sporting CP | 22 | (0) |
2012–2017 | Sporting B | 87 | (34) |
2015 | → Académica (loan) | 15 | (0) |
2017– | Braga | 36 | (4) |
International career‡ | |||
2008–2009 | Portugal U16 | 9 | (3) |
2009–2010 | Portugal U17 | 17 | (5) |
2010 | Portugal U18 | 2 | (0) |
2010–2012 | Portugal U19 | 29 | (5) |
2012–2013 | Portugal U20 | 16 | (1) |
2013–2015 | Portugal U21 | 18 | (3) |
2016– | Portugal U23 | 5 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 September 2018 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 13 August 2016 |
Ricardo de Sousa Esgaio (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁiˈkaɾðu ʃˈɣalu]; born 16 May 1993) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for S.C. Braga as a right winger or right back.
Club career
Sporting
Born in Nazaré, Esgaio joined Sporting Clube de Portugal's youth system at the age of 12, having signed from local Grupo Desportivo os Nazarenos. On 14 December 2011 he was called for a UEFA Europa League group stage game away against S.S. Lazio, alongside youth graduates Betinho, Tiago Ilori, João Carlos and João Mário, as the Lions had already secured the first place in its group: he remained an unused substitute in the 0–2 loss.[1]
On 11 August 2012, Esgaio made his senior debut with the B-team in the second division, playing 80 minutes in a 0–1 loss at U.D. Oliveirense.[2] He scored his first goal with the side the following matchday, the only in the home fixture against Vitória de Guimarães B.[3]
Esgaio made his first official appearance with Sporting's main squad on 7 December 2012, starting against Videoton FC in the last round of the Europa League group stage, as the Lions were already eliminated from knockout stage contention, and playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–1 home win.[4] He made his Primeira Liga debut on 5 January of the following year, playing the last minute of a 0–1 home loss to F.C. Paços de Ferreira;[5] on 6 November 2013, back in the reserves, he netted a hat-trick in a 4–0 win over G.D. Chaves.[6]
On 27 January 2015, both Esgaio and Sporting teammate Salim Cissé were loaned to fellow league club Académica de Coimbra until the end of the season.[7]
Braga
On 17 June 2017, after only 44 competitive matches for Sporting in five years,[8] Esgaio signed a five-year contract with S.C. Braga as Rodrigo Battaglia moved in the opposite direction.[9] In his third match for his new team, away to C.D. Aves on 20 August, he came on as a last-minute substitute and scored his first goal in the top flight to seal a 2–0 victory.[10]
Honours
Sporting
References
- ^ Clinical Lazio through after Sporting triumph; UEFA, 14 December 2011
- ^ "Oliveirense-Sporting B, 1–0: Golo de Barry derrota jovens leões" [Oliveirense-Sporting B, 1–0: Barry goal defeats young lions]. Record (in Portuguese). 11 August 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
- ^ "Sporting B-V. Guimarães B, 1–0: Esgaio dá triunfo aos leões" [Sporting B-V. Guimarães B, 1–0: Esgaio gives lions win]. Record (in Portuguese). 18 August 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
- ^ Sporting sign off with Videoton success; UEFA, 7 December 2012
- ^ Paços pile more misery on Sporting; PortuGOAL, 5 January 2013
- ^ "Sporting B-Chaves, 4–0: Hat-trick de Ricardo Esgaio" [Sporting B 4–0 Chaves: Ricardo Esgaio hat-trick]. Record (in Portuguese). 6 November 2013. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ^ "Sporting empresta Ricardo Esgaio e Cissé à Académica" [Sporting loan Ricardo Esgaio and Cissé to Académica] (in Portuguese). TSF. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ^ "Ricardo Esgaio quer em Braga os minutos que não teve no Sporting" [Ricardo Esgaio wants in Braga minutes he did not have at Sporting] (in Portuguese). Rádio Renascença. 19 June 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ^ "Ricardo Esgaio assinou pelo Sp. Braga, depois de 12 anos como leão" [Ricardo Esgaio signed for Sp. Braga, after 12 years as a lion]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 17 June 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ^ "Veja o grande golo de Ricardo Esgaio frente ao Aves" [Watch Ricardo Esgaio's great goal against Aves]. Jornal de Notícias (in Portuguese). 20 August 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
External links
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- Ricardo Esgaio at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- National team data Template:Pt icon
- Ricardo Esgaio at Soccerway
- 1993 births
- Living people
- People from Nazaré, Portugal
- Portuguese footballers
- Association football defenders
- Association football wingers
- Primeira Liga players
- Segunda Liga players
- Sporting CP footballers
- Sporting CP B players
- Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. players
- S.C. Braga players
- Portugal youth international footballers
- Portugal under-21 international footballers
- Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers of Portugal