Hugo Filipe Gonçalves Martins de Sousa (born 4 June 1992) is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club Ionikos.

Club career

Born in

Santa Marinha (Vila Nova de Gaia) Santa Marinha is a former Freguesia (Portugal), civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia Municipality, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Santa Marinha e São Pedro da Afurada. The population in ...

, Sousa joined

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's youth system in 2004, aged 12. Seven years later, after having playing in several sides at the club, he made his senior debut with FC Brașov in the Romanian

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, signing alongside compatriot Ricardo Machado. In the summer of 2013, after one and a half seasons in the

Cypriot First Division The Cypriot First Division ( el, Πρωτάθλημα Α΄ Κατηγορίας) is the top tier football league competition in Cyprus, run by the Cyprus Football Association. Since February 2016, it is sponsored by Cyta and is thus officially ...

with two teams, Sousa moved back to his homeland by joining

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's reserves of the Segunda Liga. Subsequently, he returned to top-flight football with

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. On 13 January 2017,

Aris Thessaloniki F.C. Aris FC ( el, ΠΑΕ Άρης), commonly known as Aris Thessaloniki FC, AFC or simply Aris, is a Greek professional football club based in the city of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece. Created in 1914 as ''Aris Thessaloniki Football Club'', th ...

announced the signing of Sousa on a one-and-a-half-year deal. He made his official debut 12 days later, in a 1–1 home draw against

Olympiacos F.C. Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus ( el, Ολυμπιακός Σ.Φ.Π. ), known simply as Olympiacos or Olympiacos Piraeus, is a Greek professional football club based in Piraeus, Attica. Part of the major multi-sport club Olympiacos CFP ('' ...

in the

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of the

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. He scored his first

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goal on 9 April, helping to a 2–0 home win over

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. Sousa agreed to extend his contract on 20 June 2018, until 2020. On 19 October 2020, he joined Romanian club

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on a one-year deal.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

AEL Limassol *

: 2011–12 *

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runner-up: 2011–12 Sepsi OSK *

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: 2021–22

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National team data
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