Petit (soccer player)

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Petit
Petit POR.jpg
Personnel
Surname Armando Gonçalves Teixeira
birthday September 25, 1976
place of birth Strasbourg ,  France
size 176 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
until 1996 AD Esposende
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1995-1996 AD Esposende 26 0(3)
1996-1997 Gondomar SC 13 0(2)
1997-1998 União lamas 31 0(3)
1998-1999 AD Esposende 30 0(3)
1999-2000 Gil Vicente FC 30 0(4)
2000-2002 Boavista Porto 51 0(7)
2002-2008 Benfica Lisbon 148 (12)
2008–2012 1. FC Cologne 87 0(5)
2012 1. FC Cologne II 2 0(0)
2012-2013 Boavista Porto 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2001-2008 Portugal 57 0(4)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2012-2015 Boavista Porto
2015-2017 CD Tondela
2017 Moreirense FC
2017-2018 FC Paços de Ferreira
2018– Moreirense FC
1 Only league games are given.

Petit ([ pɯˈti ]; actually Armando Gonçalves Teixeira , born September 25, 1976 in Strasbourg , France ) is a former Portuguese football player and current coach .

He was born to Portuguese parents. He was nicknamed Petit as a teenager because of his small stature and as a tribute to his French place of birth. The Portuguese fans call him the pit bull because of his body-hugging, snappy style of play . Petit is known for his high hit rate after direct free kicks and his above-average accuracy of pass.

Career

society

After holding positions in the lower Portuguese leagues, Petit began his professional career in 1999 with Gil Vicente FC , where he quickly became a key player. He then moved to Boavista Porto , with whose team he became Portuguese champions for the first time in 2001.

In 2002 he was signed by Benfica Lisbon , won the Portuguese Cup in 2004 and his second championship in 2005. After impressive performances in the 2005/06 Champions League season, Petit received offers from Manchester United and Lyon . He decided not to move because of his strong ties with Benfica.

For the 2008/09 season he moved to 1. FC Köln , the first Portuguese to wear the billy goats jersey. In Cologne, the midfield engine quickly made it to a regular place, where it became one of the so-called top performers. After the first year in the cathedral city, Petit had played a total of 31 league games. Only Mišo Brečko and Pedro Geromel were on the field more often. In October 2009 he took over the captain's armband from Milivoje Novakovič for three months after he had been deposed as captain by coach Zvonimir Soldo . At the beginning of the second half of the 2009/10 season he handed over the captain's armband to teammate Youssef Mohamad .

On May 14, 2011, Petit suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament. Despite the injury, his contract was extended for a year; the first game he completed on February 4, 2012 with the Cologne U-21 against the reserves of VfL Bochum.

For the 2012/13 season, Petit moved to the former club Boavista Porto , where he ended his professional career. After a bad start to the season, coach Amândio Barreiros was released early; Petit took over the position of coach, so that he was active both as a player and as a coach until the end of the 2012/13 season.

National team

On June 2, 2001 Petit made his debut in the Portuguese national team in the qualifier for the 2002 World Cup against Ireland . With the national team, he was runner-up in his own country at the 2004 European Championships and took part in the 2006 World Cup and the 2008 European Championship .

titles and achievements

society

  • Portuguese champion, 2001 (with Boavista Porto), 2005 (with Benfica Lisbon)
  • Portuguese Cup Winner 2004 (with Benfica Lisbon)
  • Portuguese Supercup winner 2005 (with Benfica Lisbon)

Individually

  • Portugal's Footballer of the Year: 2001
  • Best Player of the Portuguese League (Golden Ball): 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1. FC Köln: The 2008/2009 roster on fussballdaten.de
  2. ↑ Boavista: Petit admite jogar mais um ano ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2012 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. published on August 12, 2012 on record.xl.pt (Portuguese) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.record.xl.pt
  3. ↑ Petit passa a treinador-jogador published on October 9, 2012 on ojogo.pt (Portuguese)
predecessor Office successor
Luís Figo Portugal's Footballer of the Year
2001 		Mario Jardel
personal data
SURNAME Petit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gonçalves Texeira, Armando (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg , France