António Antunes Baeta Rodrigues Areia (; born 21 June 1990) is a Portuguese

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player for

FC Porto Futebol Clube do Porto, Order of Prince Henry, MHIH, Order of Merit (Portugal), OM (), commonly known as FC Porto or simply Porto, is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Porto. It is best known for the professional association footbal ...

and the Portuguese national team. He represented Portugal at the

2020 European Men's Handball Championship The 2020 EHF European Men's Handball Championship was the 14th edition of the tournament and the first to feature 24 national teams. It was co-hosted for the first time in three countries – Austria, Norway and Sweden – from 9 to 26 January ...

. In 2025 he was part of the Portugal team that reached the semifinals of the

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for the first time in history. They lost the semifinals to Denmark and the third place playoff to France. In the last seconds of the match he missed the shot, that would put Portugal level and take the match to extra time.

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* 1990 births Living people Portuguese male handball players Handball players from Lisbon FC Porto handball players S.L. Benfica handball players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Portugal Portuguese expatriate handball players Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate handball players in France 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen {{Portugal-handball-bio-stub