João Pereira

The title of this article is ambiguous. For other namesake see João Pereira (disambiguation) .

João Pereira
Pereira in the national jersey of Portugal (2011)
Personnel
Surname	João Pedro da Silva Pereira
birthday	February 25, 1984
place of birth	Lisbon ,  Portugal
size	172 cm
position	Right full-back
Juniors
Years	station
1994-2003	Benfica Lisbon
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2003-2006	Benfica Lisbon	58 (0)
2006-2007	Gil Vicente FC	39 (1)
2007-2009	Sporting Braga	67 (1)
2010–2012	Sporting Lisbon	61 (3)
2012-2015	Valencia CF	54 (0)
2015	Hannover 96	5 (0)
2015-2017	Sporting Lisbon	28 (0)
2017–	Trabzonspor	98 (3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2000	Portugal U15	7 (1)
2000-2001	Portugal U16	7 (0)
2002	Portugal U18	5 (1)
2002-2003	Portugal U19	15 (1)
2004-2008	Portugal U21	28 (1)
2010-2014	Portugal	40 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20

João Pedro da Silva Pereira (born February 25, 1984 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese football player .

Career

In the club

Pereira learned to play football in the youth of Benfica Lisbon and made his debut on August 17, 2003 in a 0-0 draw against Boavista Porto with the professionals. In his debut season 2003/04 he played 25 games and was mostly used in midfield. In the following season 2004/05 Pereira was part of the Benfica team, which won the championship and played many games from the start until he fell out with coach Ronald Koeman and was relegated first to the bench and later to the B team. After he was loaned to Gil Vicente FC in 2006 and convinced, he signed a follow-up contract with the club from Barcelos . Now firmly anchored in the position of right-back, Pereira moved on to Sporting Braga after just a year before being signed by Sporting Lisbon in December 2009 for a transfer fee of three million euros .

For the season 2012/13 to Pereira joined the Spanish side Valencia on.

In January 2015, Pereira moved to the Bundesliga for Hannover 96 . He received a contract until the end of the 2014/15 season .

After his contract with Hannover 96 expired, Pereira returned to Sporting Lisbon on a free transfer . In January 2017, Pereira moved to Trabzonspor in Turkey .

In the national team

Pereira took Portugal at Under-19 Championship in 2003 , the U21 European Championship in 2004 and at the U21 European Championship in 2007 in part. He played a total of 28 games for the U21 team . In October 2010, he was appointed to the senior national team for the first time by then national coach Paulo Bento , whereupon he played his first international match in the European Championship qualifier against Denmark and took part as a regular in the European Championship 2012 and World Championship 2014 .

successes

• Portuguese champion : 2005
• Portuguese Cup Winner : 2004
• Portuguese Super Cup winner : 2005 , 2015
• UEFA Intertoto Cup : 2008

Web links

Commons : João Pedro da Silva Pereira  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• João Pereira in the database of weltfussball.de
• João Pereira on the Portuguese Football Association website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ valenciacf.com: Comunicado oficial ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish, May 24, 2012) 
2. ↑ hannover96.de: 96 obliges Pereira ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (January 29, 2015) 
3. ↑ transfermarkt.de: João Pereira switches back to Sporting (September 9, 2015)