Name Rui Patricio Career start 2006 Weight 84 kg | Number 1 Height 1.90 m Playing position Role Footballer | |
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Full name Rui Pedro dos Santos Patricio Date of birth (1988-02-15) 15 February 1988 (age 27) Spouse Joana Pereira (m. 2011–2011) Current teams Sporting Clube de Portugal (#1 / Goalkeeper), Portugal national football team (Goalkeeper) Similar People Joao Moutinho, Adrien Silva, Miguel Veloso, Paulo Bento, Marcelo Boeck Profiles | ||
Place of birth Marrazes, Portugal | ||
Rui Patricio Best Saves 2017-2018 Portugal & Sporting CP : Welcome to Wolverhampton Wanderers
Rui Pedro dos Santos Patrício, ([ˈʁuj pɐˈtɾisju]; born 15 February 1988) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Sporting Clube de Portugal and the Portugal national team.
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- Rui Patricio Best Saves 2017 2018 Portugal Sporting CP Welcome to Wolverhampton Wanderers
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- Club career
- International career
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He spent most of his career with Sporting, making his debut with the first team at only 18 and going on to appear in more than 350 official games.
Patrício gained his first cap for Portugal in 2010, after Paulo Bento's appointment as head coach. He represented the nation at the 2014 World Cup and three European Championships, winning the 2016 edition of the latter tournament.
Rui patricio light our fire 2016 2017
Club career
Born in Marrazes, Leiria, Patrício played as a striker at a young age. Reportedly, a Sporting Clube de Portugal scout was in the area and saw him play in goal, being impressed enough to sign the 12-year-old to the club's youth academy. He made his Primeira Liga debut on 19 November 2006, in a 1–0 away win against C.S. Marítimo in the tenth round: standing in for habitual club and country first-choice Ricardo, he saved a penalty kick 15 minutes before the end of the game.
In the 2007–08 season, after Ricardo's departure to Real Betis, Patrício beat competition from Sporting veteran Tiago and new signing Vladimir Stojković to become the undisputed starter. On 27 November 2007 he made his UEFA Champions League debut, in a 1–2 group stage loss at Manchester United.
During the 2008 off-season, Patrício was the subject of a rumored transfer to Italian giants Inter Milan. Nothing came of it, however, and in that year's Portuguese Supercup final, against FC Porto, he stopped a Lucho González penalty in a 2–0 final success, also being an everpresent fixture in the league.
In the qualifying rounds of the 2009–10 Champions League, at FC Twente, Sporting were trailing 0–1 in the 94th minute, after a 0–0 tie in the first leg: Patrício rushed to the opposing area for a corner kick, where he went up for a header with Nikita Rukavytsya. Both players seemed to make contact with the ball, and it was helped into the net for an own goal via the boot of Peter Wisgerhof as the latter side eventually qualified for the last games prior to the group stage.
On 20 December 2012, Patrício was awarded Sporting's Footballer of the Year award for a second consecutive year. On 18 October 2014, with the score at 2–1 for Sporting, he saved a penalty by Jackson Martínez to help oust Porto from the Portuguese Cup with a 3–1 win at the Estádio do Dragão.
On 24 October 2016, Patrício was one of 30 players nominated for the 2016 Ballon d'Or award alongside Portugal teammates Pepe and Cristiano Ronaldo. The following 18 February he appeared in his 400th competitive game with Sporting, putting on a Man of the match performance in a 1–0 home win against Rio Ave FC.
International career
From 2007, Patrício started appearing for the Portuguese under-21 side. On 29 January of the following year, senior team coach Luiz Felipe Scolari called him up for a 1–3 friendly defeat against Italy in Zürich, although he did not leave the bench; on 12 May he was picked to the squad for UEFA Euro 2008, but did not play in the tournament.
Although not part of the provisional 24-player list for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, Patrício was named in a backup list of six players. He made his debut on 17 November 2010, playing the second half of a 4–0 friendly win with Spain.
After Eduardo was relegated to the bench at his new club, S.L. Benfica, Patrício became the starter under national team boss Paulo Bento, and both players finished the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign with five games (450 minutes) as Portugal qualified for the final stages. He was the starter in the finals in Poland and Ukraine, conceding four goals in five matches in an eventual semifinal exit.
Patrício was included in Bento's 23-man squad for the 2014 World Cup as first-choice, and made his debut in the competition in the first encounter against Germany, which ended with a 0–4 loss. He missed the second game against the United States, due to injury.
Patrício appeared in his 50th international on 30 June 2016, during Euro 2016: after the 1–1 draw to Poland at the Stade Vélodrome during the first 120 minutes, he saved Jakub Błaszczykowski's attempt in a 5–3 penalty shootout win that qualified to the semi-finals.