Joao Manuel Vieira Pinto

Sporting Clube de Portugal & Portugal


Birthdate: August 19, 1971
Birthplace: Porto, Portugal
Height: 171 cms
]Weight: 62 kgs
Position: Midforward
Games & Goals with National Team: 54 caps, 18 goals (as of January 1, 2000)
International Debut: October 12, 1990 vs. Luxembourg (D 1-1)


Joao Pinto is the king of Da Luz Stadium, a field which lights each Sunday with his play. With an excellent dribbling and a good change of rythm, Joao Pinto is in these moments, together with Rui Costa and Luis Figo, the most qualified player of Portugal. He plays as a midforward and he likes to begin from midfield postions to enter, dribbling or making assistances with another player in the rival aerea. The problem for Joao Pito is that he lacks shot. Portugal has a lot of players of great quality, but there is no one pure centre forward, this provokes that he plays a lot of times as second forward.

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