Nicholas Mario Torrão de Almeida (; born 18 November 1987 in

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), simply known as Niki Torrão, is a South African-born Macanese professional football striker who plays for

Liga de Elite Liga de Elite (), previously known as Campeonato da 1ª Divisão do Futebol, is the top division of the Macau Football Association, created in 1973. The league is featuring local players and professional foreign players. Due to the lack of footbal ...

club

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and previously for Sporting de Macau. He also plays for the

Macau national football team The Macau national football team (; pt, Selecção Macaense de Futebol) represents the Chinese special administrative region of Macau in international association football. The team is supervised by the Macau Football Association (; Portugu ...

International career

In 2011, Torrão scored the winning goal for Macau in the 67th Interport Cup against Hong Kong's under-21 team. On 11 October 2017, Torrão equalised for Macau against

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eight minutes before half-time in a 2019 AFC Asian Cup qualification third round match. It was Macau's first ever goal in the final round of the qualifiers.

Goals for senior national team

:''Scores and results list Macau's goal tally first.''

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Niki Torrão
at playmakerstats.com (formerly thefinalball.com) 1987 births Living people Soccer players from Johannesburg Macau people Macau men's footballers Macau men's international footballers South African men's soccer players Macau people of Portuguese descent South African people of Portuguese descent Men's association football forwards S.L. Benfica de Macau players Liga de Elite players {{Macau-footy-bio-stub