Paulo Roberto Costa Regula (born 12 March 1989) is a Portuguese professional

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who plays as a

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Club career

Regula was born in

Sarilhos Pequenos Sarilhos Pequenos is town on the south margin of the Tagus River, near Lisbon, Portugal. Once a civil parish in the municipality of Moita, in the district of Setúbal, it merged in 2013 into the new parish of Gaio-Rosário e Sarilhos Pequenos. Wit ...

Setúbal District The District of Setúbal ( ) is a district located in the south-west of Portugal. It is named for its capital, the city of Setúbal. Geography It is delimited by Lisbon District and Santarém District on the north, Évora District on the eas ...

. After starting to play football with

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

, he moved to

Vitória F.C. Vitória Futebol Clube (), popularly known as Vitória de Setúbal, is a Portuguese professional Association football, football club based in Setúbal that used to compete in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football league system ...

in 2002 at the age of 13, where he completed his development. In the 2008–09 season he began to receive callups to the main squad, making his debut in the

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 ...

on 24 January 2009 by coming on as a 62nd-minute substitute in a 0–1 home loss against

Associação Naval 1º de Maio Associação Naval 1º de Maio or Associação Naval 1893, commonly known as Naval, was a Portuguese Association football, football club based in Figueira da Foz, Coimbra District. Founded on 1 May 1893, it last played in the Division of Honour i ...

. Regula repeated individual numbers in the 2009–10 campaign, again appearing in 11 league games but managing to score once – in a 3–5 loss at F.C. Paços de Ferreira– as the '' Sadinos'' again retained their division status. On 11 November 2010 he suffered a serious injury to his

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in a match against

U.D. Leiria União Desportiva de Leiria (), commonly known as União de Leiria, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Leiria. Founded on 6 June 1966, it currently plays in the Liga Portugal 2, holding home matches at Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pe ...

and, on 30 June 2011, as his contract expired, was released by the club. After becoming a

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, Regula was set to complete a transfer to

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in Italy, with the move even being announced in July 2011. However, the transfer collapsed shortly after, and he signed for

S.C. Olhanense Sporting Clube Olhanense (), commonly known as Olhanense, is a Portuguese sports club from Olhão, Algarve. Its Association football, football team was founded on 27 April 1912 and currently plays in the Algarve Football Association Portuguese Di ...

the following month. Regula was loaned to Segunda Liga team

for

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. In February 2015, still owned by Olhanense, he joined

PFC Litex Lovech FC Lovech (; formerly Litex Lovech) is a Bulgarian professional association football, football club based in Lovech, that competes in the Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria), Second League. The club was founded in 1921 as Hisarya Spor ...

from Bulgaria.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Regula, Paulo 1989 births Living people Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players Segunda Divisão players Vitória F.C. players S.C. Olhanense players Associação Naval 1º de Maio players Atlético Clube de Portugal players C.D. Pinhalnovense players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players FC Lovech players Portugal men's under-21 international footballers Portuguese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria People from Moita Footballers from Setúbal District 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen