Jorge Filipe Monteiro dos Santos Lourenço (born 15 August 1988), known as Monteiro, is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a winger.

Club career

Portugal

Born in

Porto Porto (), also known in English language, English as Oporto, is the List of cities in Portugal, second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto c ...

, Monteiro played youth football with local

, having joined its youth system at the age of 8. Until his release on 30 June 2010, he was consecutively loaned to Ribeirão,

Estrela da Amadora Club Football Estrela Amadora SAD (), sometimes just Estrela da Amadora, is a Portuguese professional sports club (predominantly football) based in Amadora, northwest of Lisbon. The team is currently competing in the Primeira Liga, after winnin ...

S.C. Covilhã Sporting Clube da Covilhã, commonly known as just Sporting da Covilhã or Sp. Covilhã, is a Portuguese association football, football club from the city of Covilhã that plays in the third-tier Liga 3 (Portugal), Liga 3. The club was founded on ...

(twice) and

Portimonense 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 Liga Portugal 2, the second division of Portuguese football ...

. Monteiro's

Primeira Liga The Primeira Liga (), also known as Liga Portugal Betclic for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Portugal and the highest level of the Portuguese football league system. Organised and supervised by the Liga ...

input during this timeframe consisted of 13 minutes with the second club, in a 1–0 away loss against

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on 31 August 2008.

Cyprus

In summer 2011, after one season in his country's Segunda Liga with Santa Clara, Monteiro signed with

AEL Limassol Athlitiki Enosi Lemesou () is a Cyprus, Cypriot sports club based in the city of Limassol, most famous for its football team. AEL Limassol also maintains a AEL Limassol B.C., men's and AEL Limassol B.C. (women), women's basketball teams, a wom ...

from the

Cypriot First Division The Cypriot First Division (), also known as the Cyprus League by Stoiximan for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Cyprus and the highest level of the Cypriot football league system. Operated by the Cyprus Fo ...

. In his first year, he contributed two goals in 26 games to help his team win the national championship after a 44-year wait. Monteiro scored a career-best 18 goals in the 2013–14 campaign, topping the goal charts as the side ranked second after eventual winners

APOEL APOEL FC (; short for Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Ελλήνων Λευκωσίας, ''Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias'', "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia") is a Cypriot professio ...

. During his three-year tenure, he netted 26 times from 105 appearances in all competitions, and also reached the final of the

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twice.

Later years

Monteiro returned to his country and its top flight for 2014–15, joining

Moreirense Moreirense Futebol Clube is a Portuguese professional football club based in Moreira de Cónegos, Guimarães Municipality, Minho. Founded on 1 November 1938, it plays in the Primeira Liga, holding home games at Parque de Jogos Comendador Joaquim d ...

on a two-year contract. In January 2015, however, he moved back to Cyprus' with

AEK Larnaca AEK Larnaca FC (, "Athletic Union Kition (ancient state), Kition of Larnaca") is a Cyprus, Cypriot professional association football, football club based in Larnaca. The club was formed in 1994 after a merger of two historical Larnaca clubs, EP ...

, going on to score ten official goals over a 12-month period.

International career

All youth categories comprised, Monteiro won 30

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for

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and scored five goals. His debut with the under-21s occurred on 11 July 2009, in a 0–1 defeat to

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for the

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Career statistics

Honours

AEL Limassol *

: 2011–12 *

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runner-up: 2011–12,

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Individual *Cypriot First Division top scorer: 2013–14 (joint)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Monteiro, Jorge 1988 births Living people Footballers from Porto Portuguese men's footballers Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Men's association football wingers Portugal men's youth international footballers Portugal men's under-21 international footballers FC Porto B players G.D. Ribeirão players C.F. Estrela da Amadora players S.C. Covilhã players Portimonense S.C. players C.D. Santa Clara players Moreirense F.C. players Anadia F.C. players S.C. Beira-Mar players Gondomar S.C. players Leça F.C. players AEL Limassol players AEK Larnaca FC players Ermis Aradippou FC players Othellos Athienou FC players Iraklis F.C. (Thessaloniki) players Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players Cypriot First Division players Cypriot Second Division players Super League Greece players Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Greece 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen