Ricardo Sá Pinto

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Ricardo Sá Pinto
Full name	Ricardo Manuel da Silva Sá Pinto
Date of birth	October 10, 1972 (1972-10-10) (age 35)
Place of birth	Porto, Portugal
Playing position	Striker (Retired)8
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992-1994 1994-1997 1997-2000 2000-2006 2006-2007	Salgueiros Sporting Real Sociedad Sporting Standard Liège	57 (17) 77 (20) 66 (6) 97 (14) 21 (2)
National team
1994-2001	Portugal	45 (10)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Ricardo Manuel da Silva Sá Pinto born on October 10,1972 in Porto,Portugal is a former Portuguese footballer.He is known as a living symbol of Sporting CP.

[edit] Club Career

He first debuted at Salgueiros, where he played at the U-23 Portuguese National Team that lost in the Euro Cup final in 1994. In the season of 1994/95, he was a member of Sporting. He also played for Real Sociedad before returning to Sporting Clube de Portugal.He had 45 caps for Portugal National Team, 25 as a Sporting player and 20 as a Real Sociedad player, scoring 10 goals. His first game was at 7 September 1994, in Belfast, a 2-1 win over Northern Ireland, in which he scored the second goal. He played at the Euro 1996 finals, scoring the equalizing goal with Denmark (1-1), in the first game, and at the Euro 2000 finals. His last game was at the 6-0 win over Cyprus, on 6 June 2001. An injury prevented him from being present at the World Cup 2002 finals. Sá Pinto most famous incident occurred in 26 March 1997, when the then Portuguese national coach Artur Jorge did not call the player to join the national team. Sá Pinto travelled to the Estádio Nacional, in Lisbon, where the national team was practicing and punched him in the face. This aggression banned the player from all national and international competitions.

v • d • e Portugal squad - UEFA Euro 1996

1 V. Baia • 2 Secretário • 3 Paulinho Santos • 4 Oceano • 5 F. Couto • 6 Tavares • 7 Paneira • 8 J. Pinto • 9 Sá Pinto • 10 Rui Costa • 11 Cadete • 12 Alfredo • 13 Dimas • 14 P. Barbosa • 15 Domingos • 16 Hélder • 17 Porfírio • 18 Folha • 19 P. Sousa • 20 Figo • 21 P. Madeira • 22 R. Correia • Coach: A. Oliveira

v • d • e Portugal squad - UEFA Euro 2000

1 V. Baía • 2 J. Costa • 3 Rui Jorge • 4 Vidigal • 5 F. Couto • 6 P. Sousa • 7 Figo • 8 J. Pinto • 9 Sá Pinto • 10 Rui Costa • 11 S. Conceição • 12 P. Espinha • 13 Dimas • 14 Abel Xavier • 15 Costinha • 16 Beto • 17 P. Bento • 18 Pauleta • 19 Capucho • 20 Secretário • 21 Nuno Gomes • 22 Quim • Coach: H. Coelho