Nuno Gomes Football player

Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro (born 5 July 1976), known as Nuno Gomes, is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a striker.He was given the nickname Gomes during childhood after Fernando Gomes, and was one of the country's most recognisable offensive players in the 1990s/2000s; he consistently scored for both club and country, and was capable of being a good link-up player, accumulating a number of assists throughout his career, which was spent mainly with Benfica, for which he netted 166 goals in 398 games over the course of 12 professional seasons.Gomes represented Portugal in two World Cups and three European Championships. He helped the national team finish second at Euro 2004 and third at Euro 2000, and won more than 100 caps all categories comprised (nearly 80 for the senior side alone).

Personal facts

Nuno Gomes
Alias (AKA)Ribeiro Nuno
Birth dateJuly 05, 1976
Birth place
Amarante Portugal , Portugal national football team
Height (meters)1.81

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Football player

position
Forward (association football)
teams
ACF Fiorentina
Blackburn Rovers F.C.
Boavista F.C.
S.C. Braga
Portugal national under-16 football team
Portugal national under-17 football team
S.L. Benfica
Amarante FC
Portugal national under-15 football team

Nuno Gomes on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.portugoal.net/index.php/player-profiles/121-players-g-i/70-player-profile-nuno-gomes