Rui Fonte

Rui Fonte
Personnel
Surname	Rui Pedro da Rocha Fonte
birthday	April 23, 1990
place of birth	Penafiel ,  Portugal
size	181 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1999-2006	Sporting Lisbon
2006-2008	Arsenal FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008-2009	Arsenal FC	0 0(0)
2009	→  Crystal Palace  (loan)	10 0(0)
2009	Sporting Lisbon	0 0(0)
2009-2010	→  Vitória Setúbal  (loan)	12 0(0)
2010-2011	→  Espanyol Barcelona  (loan)	11 0(0)
2010-2011	→ Espanyol Barcelona B (loan)	22 0(8)
2011-2013	Espanyol Barcelona	29 0(1)
2013-2015	Benfica Lisbon	0 0(0)
2013-2015	Benfica Lisbon B	26 (18)
2015	→  Belenenses Lisbon  (loan)	13 0(2)
2015-2017	Sporting Braga	43 (16)
2017-2018	Fulham FC	27 0(3)
2018-2019	→  Lille OSC  (loan)	18 0(1)
2019–	Sporting Braga	25 0(4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2005-2006	Portugal U16	12 0(3)
2006-2007	Portugal U17	13 0(2)
2008	Portugal U18	5 0(3)
2008-2009	Portugal U19	12 0(8)
2010	Portugal U20	5 0(2)
2008–2012	Portugal U21	22 0(8)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20

Rui Pedro da Rocha Fonte (born April 23, 1990 in Penafiel ) is a Portuguese football player .

Career

In the club

Rui Fonte was accepted into the Sporting Lisbon Youth Academy at the age of nine . In 2006, at the age of 16, he moved to the youth department of Arsenal FC . In the course of a loan deal with the then second division club Crystal Palace , he made his professional debut in the second half of the 2008/09 season . Since the three-year contract with Arsenal provided for a return to Sporting in the event of a waiver of an extension, Fonte returned to Portugal for the 2009/10 season . Through another loan deal with the first division club Vitória Setúbal , he gained his first experience in the Primeira Liga .

For the 2010/11 season he moved again on loan to the Spanish first division club Espanyol Barcelona . There, in addition to eleven short appearances in the Primera División, he played a total of 22 appearances for the B team in the fourth-class Tercera División . Before the 2011/12 season, he agreed on a two-year contract with Espanyol. In the following year and a half he played 29 first division games, twelve of them in the starting lineup. In January 2013 he dissolved the contract and moved to Benfica Lisbon .

At Benfica he first played in the B-Team in the Segunda Liga and injured his knee so badly on his debut that he missed the rest of the season. In the 2013/14 season, he played only four other missions in the B-Team. The breakthrough came in the 2014/15 season, when he scored 17 goals for the reserve selection in 21 league games, whereupon he was loaned in the second half of the first division club Belenenses Lisbon and scored his first two first division goals in 13 appearances. For the 2015/16 season he played on loan for Sporting Braga and won the national cup competition . At the end of the season he was signed for a three-year contract. In the 2016/17 season he scored eleven goals in 26 league games.

At the beginning of the 2017/18 season Fonte moved to the English second division club Fulham . The 2018/19 season he played on loan at Lille OSC . Fonte returned to Sporting Braga in August 2019.

In the national team

Rui Fonte made 69 appearances for Portugal's youth national teams. For the friendly against Cape Verde on March 31, 2015, he was appointed to the senior national team for the first time by national coach Fernando Santos . He was also not used in his second nomination for the European Championship qualifier against Serbia on October 11, 2015.

successes

Benfica Lisbon

• Portuguese Cup Winner : 2016

Private

Rui Fonte is the younger brother of the Portuguese national soccer player José Fonte .

Web links

• Rui Fonte in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Rui Fonte in the database of weltfussball.de
• Rui Fonte on the Portuguese Football Association website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fulhamfc.com: Fonte joins (August 17, 2017, English)
2. ↑ abola.pt: Fernando Santos chama Ricardo Pereira e Rui Fonte (October 8, 2015, Portuguese)