Piqueti Djassi Brito Silva (born 12 February 1993), knowly simply as Piqueti, is a

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professional

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who plays for Saudi club

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and the Guinea-Bissau national team as a

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Club career

Born in

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, Piqueti signed for

S.C. Braga Sporting Clube de Braga (), commonly known as Sporting de Braga or just Braga, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Braga. Best known for the men's professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese foo ...

in 2011 for his last year as a junior. He went on to spend several seasons with the reserves in the Segunda Liga, making his debut in the competition on 22 August 2012 by coming on as a second-half substitute in a 1–0 away loss against C.F. Belenenses. Piqueti first appeared in the

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with the first team on 14 March 2014, playing two minutes of the 1–1 away draw with

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. Again from the bench, on 5 April, he scored his first goal competitive goal for them, contributing to a 2–0 victory at

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. Late into the 2015 winter

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, Piqueti was loaned to fellow league club

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, featuring rarely in a relegation-ending campaign. On 30 May 2017, he signed with

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also of the top division, who in turn loaned him to second-tier Académica. On 26 February 2019, Piqueti joined

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from Italian amateurs

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. On 29 August 2023, Piqueti joined

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. On 14 July 2024, Piqueti joined

International career

Piqueti represented

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at under-20 level, notably helping his adopted nation to the fourth place in the

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. He switched allegiance to

Guinea Bissau Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778. It borders Senegal to its north and Guinea to its southeast. Guinea-Bissau was once part of the kin ...

in 2015, earning his first senior

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on 8 October by replacing

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in the 72nd minute of the 1–1 draw in

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for the

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qualifiers (4–2 aggregate defeat). Piqueti was selected for the

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by manager

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, featuring 29 minutes in the group stage opener against hosts against

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(1–1). He scored his first goal for his country the following match, putting his team ahead in an eventual 2–1 loss to

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; the individual effort was described as "superb". Piqueti was also part of the squad at the

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and

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International goals

:''Scores and results list Guinea-Bissau's goal tally first, score column indicates score after Piqueti goal''.

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Piqueti 1993 births Living people Bissau-Guinean emigrants to Portugal Portuguese sportspeople of Bissau-Guinean descent Footballers from Bissau Bissau-Guinean men's footballers Portuguese men's footballers Men's association football wingers Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players S.C. Braga B players S.C. Braga players Gil Vicente F.C. players C.S. Marítimo players Académica de Coimbra (football) players SSD Varese Calcio players Saudi First Division League players Al-Shoulla FC players Egyptian Premier League players Ismaily SC players Saudi Second Division players Najran SC players Tuwaiq Club players Portugal men's youth international footballers Guinea-Bissau men's international footballers 2017 Africa Cup of Nations players 2019 Africa Cup of Nations players 2021 Africa Cup of Nations players Bissau-Guinean expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia Expatriate men's footballers in Egypt Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Italy Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Bissau-Guinean expatriate sportspeople in Egypt 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen