Nuno Gomes: all the fun about the legend of "Benfica"

Nuno Gomes was born in 1976, on July 5, in Amaranti. This is a famous Portuguese football player who takes the position of the striker on the field. He became famous for his performances for the national Portuguese team and FC Benfica. Well, his biography is rich, and the most interesting facts worth telling.

Career at home

Started Nuno Gomes his football career with a club like "Boavista". He played for this team from 1994 to 1997. When he was 18 years old, the player's debut for the main line-up took place. This happened in the 1994/95 season. And next year the player together with the club won the Portuguese Cup. Only two seasons Nuno Gomes spent 79 matches for "Boavista" and issued 23 goals. And the successes of the Portuguese player did not remain undetected. So in 1997 he gets a favorable offer from such a famous club as Benfica. Naturally, the Portuguese agreed. And not in vain. He gained invaluable experience and became the real striking force of his new team. He scored 60 goals for 101 matches! And this indicator really causes respect.

In the "Benfica" he played from 1997 to 2000. However, then, after a short transition to "Fiorentina" - from 2002 to 2011, he again played in this team. And the Italians, by the way, bought the Portuguese for 17 million euros! In the first season, he won with the Fiorentina Cup of Italy, but then the "violets" began to have financial problems, so they had to say goodbye to many players, including a promising Portuguese striker.

Further career

After leaving the "Fiorentina" a football player something went wrong. The first three seasons, he was allegedly on the heels of various injuries. It was for this reason that he could not demonstrate past performance. However, Nuno Gomes continued to help "Benfica" to achieve new victories. His best season was in 2006. Then he scored 15 goals, among which was a double at the gate of principled opponents - footballers "Porto". He also issued a hat-trick against FC Unian Leiria. Nuno Gomes is the legend of Benfica, and this can be stated with absolute certainty. It was not without reason that he was named the second best scorer of that Championship.

However, in the next season he had to face a solid competition for a place in the first team. Due to the fact that Oscar Cardaso came to the team, he was given less playing time. But he continued to enter the field. And in 2008, in a game against Napoli, the striker draws up his 150 goals for the club. But in 2009 he was sent to the bench. In the 2010/11 season, he receives very little playing time. On November 14, he scored the 200th goal for FC Benfica, which he dedicated to his father, who died in August. And a month before the execution of 35 years Gomes became a free agent, as the club management did not want to renew the contract. Although he was offered a management position in Benfica. But the football player wanted to play and so refused.

"Braga", "Blackburn Rovers" and career in the national team

Nuno Gomes was quickly invited by the leadership of "Braga" in his squad, to which the football player, of course, agreed. Just a month after signing the contract, he draws up the first goal for his new team.

But he did not stay there for long. In 2012, moved to the "Blackburn Rovers" (the club that left in that season, the Premier League). A year he played in this team, going on the field 18 times and scoring four goals. Then in 2013 he completed his career. For all his life he played 459 club matches, in which he scored 177 goals. After that, he became an adviser to the president on international issues in Benfica.

As part of the national team, he played for a long time. From 1991 to 2011 - exactly twenty years! True, he began with 15 years. Excellent proved himself and the youth World Cup in 1995, and in Euro 2000, and in other world and European championships. But when he had less game practice in the club - he was no longer so often called into the team. Because of his career in the national team, he completed in 2011, after the last match against the Irish team, held in the qualifying round in Euro 2012.

Achievements and personal life of football player Nuno Gomes

Biography, rating, career - all this is very interesting. But there is another theme, no less entertaining. His private life! The Portuguese football player had already had one marriage, but after that he married again. It was 9 years ago - in 2006. Nuno Gomes and his wife are a happy couple. The chosen player of the football player, by the way, is Patricia Aguilar, and she is a former journalist. The attacker has a daughter from the first marriage named Laura.

It's interesting that Gomes is not the real name of the player. His full name sounds like Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro. And Gomes is a pseudonym taken by a player in honor of a person like Fernando Gomes (a Porto player of the eighties).

And finally a few words about the achievements of the Portuguese. He is a two-time winner of the Cup of Portugal, twice won the national championship, the League Cup and the Super Cup of Portugal. He is also a silver medalist of the 2004 European Championship. In general, the achievements of the player a lot. So he finished his career with dignity.