André Filipe Eusébio Paulo (born 18 December 1996) is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a

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for

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal, founded Sporting Club de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP, often known abroad as Sporting Lisbon , is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Lisbon. It is best known for the professional fo ...

Club career

Born in

Albufeira Albufeira () is a city and seat of its own municipality in the district of Faro, in the southernmost Portuguese region of Algarve. The municipality population in 2021 was 44,158, in an area of . The city proper had a population of 28,645 in 202 ...

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, Paulo spent most of his formative years in the academy of

Imortal DC Imortal Desportivo Clube ''(abbreviated as Imortal DC and colloquially known as Imortal de Albufeira)'' is a Portuguese sports club centered around a football club based in the city of Albufeira, in the Portuguese region of Algarve. Imortal has ...

, finishing his youth career with

Portimonense SC Portimonense Sporting Clube is a Portuguese sports club based in Portimão. Founded on 14 August 1914, it is most notable for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football. It a ...

. He made his senior debut in the lower leagues of the

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, winning the

2018–19 Campeonato de Portugal The 2018–19 Campeonato de Portugal was the sixth season of Portuguese football's new third-tier league, since the merging of the Segunda Divisão and Terceira Divisão in 2013, and the fourth season under the current Campeonato de Portugal t ...

with Casa Pia A.C. and failing to achieve another promotion from that tier with

Real S.C. Real Sport Clube is a Portuguese football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popu ...

in the following season as the league was curtailed by the

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. Paulo signed a two-year contract with

on 7 June 2020, being assigned to their reserves also in the third division. Third choice at the first team behind

Antonio Adán Antonio Adán Garrido (; born 13 May 1987) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Primeira Liga club Sporting CP. A youth product of Real Madrid, where he acted mainly as a backup, he spent most of his career wit ...

and Luís Maximiano, he played his first match in the

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on 19 May 2021 which was the last of

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, replacing Maximiano in the 66th minute of the 5–1 home win against C.S. Marítimo and thus being eligible for a winners' medal.

Honours

Casa Pia * Campeonato de Portugal: 2018–19 Sporting CP *

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Taça da Liga The Taça da Liga (), known outside Portugal as Portuguese League Cup, is an annual football club competition organised by the Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional (LPFP) for teams competing in the Primeira Liga and LigaPro, the top two tier ...

References

External links

Sporting official profile
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Paulo, Andre 1996 births Living people People from Albufeira Sportspeople from Faro District Portuguese footballers Association football goalkeepers Primeira Liga players Campeonato de Portugal (league) players Imortal D.C. players AD Oeiras players Casa Pia A.C. players Real S.C. players Sporting CP B players Sporting CP footballers