Personal information | |||
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Full name | Miguel Alexandre Areias Lopes | ||
Date of birth | 2 June 1977 | ||
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.
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, [1] Standard Liège (where he teamed up with former Portuguese internationals Sérgio Conceição and Ricardo Sá Pinto) [2] 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. [3] [4] [5]
Released, Areias signed with C.F. Os Belenenses on a free transfer, for the 2007–08 campaign. [6] Unsettled, he switched the following year to newly promoted C.D. Trofense, also in the top division. [7] 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. [8]
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. [9] 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. [10]