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Miguel Areias
Personal information
Full name Miguel Alexandre Areias Lopes
Date of birth (1977-06-02) 2 June 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth Porto, Portugal
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Left-back
Youth career
1986–1991 Porto
1991–1992 Candal
1992–1993 Espinho
1993–1995 Salgueiros
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1996 Ermesinde
1996–1997 Estrela Portalegre
1997–1998 Juventude Ronfe
1998–2000 Ovarense 61 (11)
2000–2004 Beira-Mar 71 (1)
2004–2007 Porto 9 (0)
2005–2006 → Boavista (loan) 30 (0)
2006 → Standard Liège (loan) 10 (1)
2007 → Celta (loan) 1 (0)
2007–2008 Belenenses 5 (0)
2008–2009 Trofense 14 (0)
2010–2011 Leixões 9 (0)
Total 210 (13)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Miguel Alexandre Areias Lopes (born 2 June 1977), known as Areias, is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played mainly as a left-back.

Club career

After establishing himself as a professional player with S.C. Beira-Mar, Porto-born Areias joined Primeira Liga club FC Porto for the 2004–05 season but, after being rarely used, he was consecutively loaned for the duration of his contract: Boavista FC, Standard Liège (where he teamed up with former Portuguese internationals Sérgio Conceição and Ricardo Sá Pinto) and RC Celta de Vigo; arrived in January 2007 at the latter, he only managed one La Liga appearance during his short spell, a 0–2 home loss against RCD Espanyol.

Released, Areias signed with C.F. Os Belenenses on a free transfer, for the 2007–08 campaign. Unsettled, he switched the following year to newly promoted C.D. Trofense, also in the top division. After featuring rarely as the Lisbon side finished eighth, he could not help prevent the northern newcomers from being relegated in their first season ever.

In the summer of 2010, after one year out of football, the 33-year-old Areias signed with Leixões S.C. of the Segunda Liga. He left at the end of the season, having played less than one third of the league games for the Matosinhos-based team.

Areias retired in 2011, and started working immediately as a players' agent. He returned to Porto four years later, as youth coach.

References

  1. F.C. Porto: Sandro e Areias cedidos por empréstimo ao Boavista (F.C. Porto: Sandro and Areias loaned to Boavista); Mais Futebol, 10 August 2005 (in Portuguese)
  2. Areias emprestado ao Standard Liège (Areias loaned to Standard Liège); Record, 8 June 2006 (in Portuguese)
  3. El Espanyol manda al Celta a los puestos de descenso (Espanyol send Celta to relegation zone); El Diario Montañés, 12 February 2007 (in Spanish)
  4. MIGUEL AREIAS; Yo Jugué en el Celta, 18 April 2008 (in Spanish)
  5. Quique Costas debuta con la selección española siendo jugador del Celta (Quique Costas makes debut for Spanish national team as a Celta player); La Voz de Galicia, 11 February 2015 (in Spanish)
  6. Areias settles at Belenenses; UEFA, 6 July 2007
  7. Exames médicos no arranque da época (Medical exams to kickstart the season); Record, 4 July 2008 (in Portuguese)
  8. Trofense perde e desce a segunda Liga (Trofense lose and are relegated to second League); O Notícias da Trofa, 23 May 2009 (in Portuguese)
  9. Sai Nelson, entram Areias, Danilo e Dyego Souza (Nelson out, Areias, Danilo and Dyego Souza in); SAPO, 13 July 2010 (in Portuguese)
  10. O campeão do mundo pelo Porto que treina os sub-16 do Dragão (The world champion for Porto who coaches the under-16 at the Dragon); Diário de Notícias, 29 October 2017 (in Portuguese)

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