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Miguel Luís Pinto Veloso (born May 11, 1986 in Coimbra) is a Portuguese footballer who currently plays with Sporting Clube de Portugal. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he can also operate as central defender.
His father is former Portuguese national team and SL Benfica defender António Veloso. His mother is Teresa, and younger sister Raquel.
so started his career at Sport Lisboa e Benfica, where his father became famous but, at the age of 14 switched to rivals Sporting Clube de Portugal where he played for five straight years, eventually training with the first team during the 2004-05 season.
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Miguel Luís Pinto Veloso (born May 11, 1986 in Coimbra) is a Portuguese footballer who currently plays with Sporting Clube de Portugal. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he can also operate as central defender.
His father is former Portuguese national team and SL Benfica defender António Veloso. His mother is Teresa, and younger sister Raquel.
Club career
Veloso started his career at Sport Lisboa e Benfica, where his father became famous but, at the age of 14 switched to rivals Sporting Clube de Portugal where he played for five straight years, eventually training with the first team during the 2004-05 season. His first playing position was central defender.
In order to give him game time, Sporting loaned Veloso to Clube Desportivo Olivais e Moscavide for 2005-06. There, he accomplished, as an influential player, promotion to the second division. As a result of this positive loan, Sporting recalled Veloso for the following season. Although it appeared difficult for him to grab a spot in Sporting's starting team, because of the presence of players with much more experience, such as Anderson Polga, Tonel, Marco Caneira or Custódio, he would play with the first team for most of the season.
He was equally impressive in his UEFA Champions League debut, a 1-0 home win against Internazionale Milan, where he stopped Patrick Vieira and Luís Figo from playing effectively. Before the match, much was made of Figo's homecoming, but by the end of the ninety minutes all the talk was about Veloso, who turned in a man-of-the-match display in a memorable 1-0 win. In 2007-08 Veloso was everpresent, with João Moutinho.
International career
Following Veloso's impressive performances for Portugal's under-21 side in the European championship in June (although Portugal exited in the group stages, the skipper scored twice in three games),on August 14, 2007, Veloso was called-up for the Portuguese full squad for the first time, for an Euro 2008 qualifier against Armenia. He would make his international debut against Azerbaijan, on October 13.
In the tournament's group stage, Veloso appeared in the 2-0 loss against Switzerland, on June 16, 2008.
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