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Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes, OIH (born April 28, 1973 in Ponta Delgada, Azores), nicknamed Pauleta (pron. ), is a former Portuguese professional footballer, in the striker position.
Pauleta is the leading scorer for the Portuguese national team, having scored 47 goals in 88 matches. He played for his country in UEFA Euro 2000, the 2002 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2004, and the 2006 FIFA World Cup before retiring from international football. His goal celebration of spreading his arms like wings led to him being nicknamed The Birdman of the Açores.
eta started his career at youth level playing for local clubs in the Azores, before turning professional with lower league clubs in Portugal, working his way up the ranks.
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Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes, OIH (born April 28, 1973 in Ponta Delgada, Azores), nicknamed Pauleta (pron. ), is a former Portuguese professional footballer, in the striker position.
Pauleta is the leading scorer for the Portuguese national team, having scored 47 goals in 88 matches. He played for his country in UEFA Euro 2000, the 2002 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2004, and the 2006 FIFA World Cup before retiring from international football. His goal celebration of spreading his arms like wings led to him being nicknamed The Birdman of the Açores.
Club career
Pauleta started his career at youth level playing for local clubs in the Azores, before turning professional with lower league clubs in Portugal, working his way up the ranks. He was part of F.C. Porto's youth team for a brief stint, but left soon due to homesickness. Pauleta signed his first professional contract with União Micaelense in 1994, spending a season at the club. He then moved to second division's Estoril-Praia in 1995, scoring 19 goals in 30 league games.
The goals continued to flow following a switch to Spanish second level club Salamanca in 1996. Pauleta struck 19 times as it gained promotion to the top flight in 1997, scoring a further 15 times in his first season in the first division. That scoring rate earned a move to Deportivo La Coruña in 1998. Pauleta enjoyed a two-year spell with the Galician team, scoring 33 goals in 92 matches, including eight from 12 starts as Deportivo won their first league championship title in 1999-2000.
Pauleta joined Bordeaux in the French League in September 2000, and enjoyed an impressive run in his first season. He scored a début hat-trick as Bordeaux crushed Nantes 5-0 in an away match. He ended 2001-02 as the league's leading scorer with 21 goals. Subsequently, Pauleta was voted 2002 Footballer of the Year by fellow players and coaches. In total, he registered 65 league goals in 98 games for Bordeaux and went on to win a second Footballer of the Year award.
He joined Paris Saint-Germain ahead of the 2003-2004 season, signing a three-year contract in a reported €12 million transfer deal.He helped the capital side to its first silverware in six years, by scoring the only goal of the 2004 French Cup final against Châteauroux. Pauleta continued with his goal scoring exploits in the league, registering 18 goals in 37 games, as PSG finished the league in second place.
On 2 April 2006, he scored his first hat-trick for Paris Saint-Germain against former club Bordeaux, as the home side won 3-1.Despite reported interest from defending French champions Lyon, Pauleta stayed at Paris-Saint Germain to help them clinch the 2006 French Cup. He scored his 99th and 100th overall goals for PSG in heroic fashion, off a fantastic volley and a textbook header respectively.
After 2007-08, as PSG faced relegation until the very last matchday (eventually reaching safety at 16th), Pauleta retired from football after his last match on 17 May 2008, with the possible exception being if any of the Big three (Benfica, Sporting CP, and Porto) in Portugal came calling, which they did not. Pauleta will be remembered as one of PSG's greatest player and greatest striker with the most goals for the Parisian team.He retired at 35 without having played one game in Portugal's top flight, subsequently staying at PSG, now in an ambassadorial role.
International career
Pauleta was the first Portuguese national team player to never have played in Portugal's top-flight, when he made his international début against Armenia, in August 1997. He would have to wait 18 months for his first national team start, against the Netherlands. His first goals came a month later, when he scored two in a 7-0 rout of Azerbaijan, in a 26 March 1999 Euro 2000 qualifier.
A substitute at the UEFA Euro 2000 tournament, he led the Portuguese attack at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, scoring a hat-trick against Poland, ending with that tally in as many games, as Portugal was ousted in the group stage.
Although he played all but one game on the road to the Euro 2004 final, Pauleta did not score in that tournament finals. However, on 12 October 2005, against Latvia, he became the national team's all-time goal scoring leader, surpassing Eusébio's previous record of 41 goals.
Pauleta was the European top scorer in the qualifying round for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and, in a friendly match against Cape Verde in May 2006, preluding the World Cup finals, Pauleta showed great form as he netted three times in a Portuguese 4-1 win. However, after scoring the first goal for Portugal in the World Cup game against Angola, he failed to find the net again during the tournament. After Portugal's defeat to Germany in the third place play-off game, Pauleta announced his international retirement.
Statistics
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National team
All-time national team performance | National Team | Year | Friendlies | International
Competition | Total | Goals per match |
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| App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals |
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| Portugal | 1997 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
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| 1999 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 3 | |
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| 2000 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 2 | |
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| 2001 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 7 | |
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| 2002 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 7 | |
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| 2003 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8 | |
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| 2004 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 9 | |
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| 2005 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 7 | |
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| 2006 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 4 | |
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| Total | 43 | 22 | 45 | 25 | 88 | 47 | |
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