João Paiva
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| Full name | João Pedro de Lemos Paiva | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 8 February 1983 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Lisbon, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1993–1995 | Olivais Moscavide | ||||||||||||||||
| 1995–2001 | Sporting CP | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2001–2003 | Sporting B | 50 | (20) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Marítimo B | 28 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Espinho | 9 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Apollon Limassol | 54 | (16) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008 | AEK Larnaca | 12 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Luzern | 72 | (23) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Grasshoppers | 25 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Wohlen | 34 | (16) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Winterthur | 63 | (20) | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | United Zürich | 10 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Dietikon | 7 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | Portugal U19 | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Portugal U20 | 9 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2021 | FC Dietikon | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Bellinzona | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
João Pedro de Lemos Paiva (born 8 February 1983) is a Portuguese football coach and a former striker.
He spent the vast majority of his professional career in Switzerland.
Club career[edit]
Born in Lisbon, Paiva played almost exclusively lower league football in his country: having been under contract with both Sporting Clube de Portugal and Marítimo, he only appeared for both clubs' reserve sides. In the 2004–05 season he competed with Espinho in the second division, but featured in less than one third of the league games and his team was also relegated after ranking 18th and last.
Paiva then spent three years in Cyprus, with Apollon Limassol and AEK Larnaca (half a season with the latter). For 2008–09 he joined Luzern in Switzerland, scoring eleven goals in 23 matches in his first year as the side finished ninth in the Super League, only barely avoiding relegation.
In January 2011, Paiva agreed a contract with another club in the country, Grasshoppers, effective as of July.[1]
Coaching career[edit]
Paiva was hired as the manager of Swiss club Bellinzona in July 2021.[2] He left Bellinzona on 23 August 2021 by mutual consent due to "diverging technical views", with Bellinzona winning 2 out of 3 games under his management.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Paiva to the Hoppers, Challenge League over Champions League; Just Can't Beat That, January 2011
- ^ "AL VIA LA STAGIONE 2021/22!" (in Italian). AC Bellinzona. 15 July 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
- ^ "COMUNICATO UFFICIALE ACB - 23.08.21" (in Italian). AC Bellinzona. 23 August 2021. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
External links[edit]
- João Paiva at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- João Paiva national team profile at the Portuguese Football Federation (in Portuguese)
- João Paiva at Soccerway
