Vítor Baía

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Vítor Baía
Vitor baia in 2016.jpg
Vítor Baía (2016)
Personnel
Surname Vítor Manuel Martins Baía
birthday 15th October 1969
place of birth Sao Pedro da Afurada ,  Portugal
size 186 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
until 1982 Leça FC
1982-1988 FC Porto
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1988-1996 FC Porto 246 (0)
1996-1999 FC Barcelona 39 (0)
1999-2007 FC Porto 160 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1990-2002 Portugal 80 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Vítor Manuel Martins Baía , OIH , [ 'vitɔɾ bɐ'iɐ ] (born October 15, 1969 in São Pedro da Afurada , Portugal ) is a former Portuguese football player .

In his career as a goalkeeper , he won numerous international titles and played 80 international matches for the Portuguese national team . He ended his career in May 2007.

career

Vítor Baía began his career at Leça FC , but moved to the youth department of FC Porto at the age of thirteen . On September 11, 1989, at the age of 19, he was appointed for the first time by Artur Jorge for the game against Vitória Guimarães in the professional team. He replaced Józef Młynarczyk , who had won the national championship cup with Porto two years earlier because he had injured his shoulder. From this point on, he no longer lost his regular place. He was also the goalkeeper in the national team . He made his debut on December 19, 1990 against the United States . During his first time at FC Porto, he won the Portuguese Championship five times and the Portuguese Cup twice .

After participating in the European Football Championship in 1996 , he moved to FC Barcelona for eight million euros , then coached by Bobby Robson . The move made him the most expensive goalkeeper of his time. After a good first season, which ended with winning the Spanish Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup , he injured his knee in August 1997, which prevented him from playing for almost two seasons. Even when he was fit again, he was no longer used as a regular goalkeeper by his coach Louis van Gaal . He trusted in his compatriot Ruud Hesp .

In January 1999 he moved back to FC Porto after he was no longer seeded in Barcelona. He took over the jersey with the number 99 , the year he returned to FC Porto, as the number 1 was already taken. There he regained his old strength and won another title in 2000, the Portuguese Cup. His strong performances also led to the nomination for the European Football Championship 2000 , where he was only eliminated in the semifinals, after a penalty. In the 2000/01 season he injured his knee again. The injury was considered the end of his career for many, but at the end of the 2001/02 season he was back on the field and was appointed to the squad of the Portuguese national team for the 2002 World Cup . Surprisingly, he was declared a goalkeeper, even though he had not played a qualifier, which Ricardo from Boavista Porto lost his starting place. After being eliminated in the preliminary round, Baía was never called up by the then national coach Luiz Felipe Scolari for the national team, although he played at top level in the next few years.

In the 2002/03 season he managed the triple with FC Porto, under the direction of José Mourinho . He won the Portuguese Championship, the Portuguese Cup and the UEFA Cup against Celtic Glasgow in Seville . A season later he won the championship again and also the UEFA Champions League against AS Monaco in Gelsenkirchen . UEFA even named him the season's best goalkeeper. But not even this award earned him a nomination for the 2004 European Football Championship in his own country.

When Co Adriaanse coached Porto in the 2005/06 season, Baía lost his regular seat to Helton at the end of 2005 . He was never able to win this back until the end of his career. In his last season, he was substituted on in the last game to play the final minutes of his career and complete the 700th appearance for FC Porto.

Honors

title

Awards

Trivia

  • He was the first Portuguese national football player to complete 75 appearances for the national team.
  • Since 2004 he holds the record for the longest time without conceding a goal in the Portuguese league with 1192 minutes.
  • In the anniversary capsule of the UEFA era , on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, a pair of Baía goalkeeper gloves were also added.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jubilee time capsule ceremony (Engl.)
predecessor Office successor

Rui Barros
Domingos Paciência 		Portugal's Footballer of the Year
1989
1991
Domingos Paciência
João Pinto


personal data
SURNAME Baía, Vítor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baía, Vitor Manuel Martins
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH 15th October 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Sao Pedro da Afurada , Portugal