Role Footballer Playing position Height 1.73 m Name Piqueti Silva | Number 77 Weight 70 kg 2011–2012 Braga | |
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Full name Piqueti Djassi Brito Silva Date of birth (1993-02-12) 12 February 1993 (age 22) Current team S.C. Braga B (#77 / Forward) | ||
Place of birth Bissau, Guinea-Bissau | ||
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Piqueti Djassi Brito Silva (born 12 February 1993), knowly simply as Piqueti, is a Bissau-Guinean professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club C.S. Marítimo as a right winger.
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Club career
Born in Bissau, Piqueti signed for S.C. Braga in 2011 for his last year as a junior. He went on to spend several seasons with the reserves in the Segunda Liga, making his debut in the competition on 22 August 2012 by coming on as a second-half substitute in a 0–1 away loss against C.F. Belenenses.
Piqueti first appeared in the Primeira Liga with the first team on 14 March 2014, playing two minutes in a 1–1 away draw to Académica de Coimbra. Again from the bench, on 5 April, he scored his first goal competitive goal for them, contributing to a 2–0 success at S.C. Olhanense.
Late into the 2015 winter transfer window, Piqueti was loaned to fellow league club Gil Vicente FC, featuring rarely in a relegation-ending campaign.
International career
Piqueti represented Portugal at under-20 level, notably helping his adopted nation to the fourth place in the 2013 Toulon Tournament. He switched allegiance to Guinea Bissau in 2015, earning his first senior cap on 8 October 2015, replacing Cícero Semedo in the 72nd minute of the 1–1 draw in Liberia for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers (2–4 aggregate defeat).
Piqueti was selected for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations by manager Baciro Candé, featuring 29 minutes in the group stage opener against hosts against Gabon (1–1). He scored his first goal for his country the following match, netting through an individual effort to put his team ahead in an eventual 1–2 loss to Cameroon.