Rui Manuel Linhares Areias (born 22 November 1993) is a Portuguese professional
footballer
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who plays as a
forward.
Club career
Born in
Guimarães
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, Areias joined the academy of local club
Vitória S.C.
Vitória Sport Clube, popularly known as Vitória de Guimarães or sometimes just Vitória, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Guimarães that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football, at the Est ...
at the age of 9. He made his senior debut with
their reserves on 11 December 2012, coming on as a second-half
substitute in a 0−0 home draw against
C.F. União
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in the
Segunda Liga. His first goals came also
that season, but his brace was achieved in a 2−4 home loss to
F.C. Penafiel on 12 May 2013.
Areias' first appearance in the
Primeira Liga
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with the first team occurred on 14 December 2014, when he played 15 minutes of the 0−0 home draw against
Rio Ave FC. He spent the
2016–17 and
2017–18 campaigns on loan to second-division sides
FC Porto B and
F.C. Arouca.
In June 2018, the
free agent
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Areias signed a one-year contract with Penafiel also of the second tier. He scored six competitive goals during his spell at the
Estádio Municipal 25 de Abril, including two in a 3–2 away victory over
C.D. Trofense in the
second round
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of the
Taça de Portugal
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. He also found the net in both league fixtures against Guimarães B (3–2 and 5–4 wins).
On 4 July 2019, Areias agreed to a one-year deal at
C.D. Mafra of the same division. He scored on his league debut, a 3–2 home defeat of
C.D. Cova da Piedade on 10 August, but added no more goals and moved to
S.C. Covilhã on 21 September 2020.
Areias subsequently dropped into the third tier for the first time in seven years, spending
one season at
AD Fafe
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Background
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before moving to
Varzim S.C. in 2022, both in the new
Liga 3.
International career
Areias earned two
caps
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for Portugal at
under-20 level, both at the
SBS Cup in Japan in 2012. On 16 August he made his debut in a 3–1 loss to
the hosts, and the following day he came off the bench to score the only goal of a win over
South Korea
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at the
Kusanagi Athletic Stadium.
References
External links
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Portuguese League profile
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1993 births
Living people
21st-century Portuguese sportsmen
Portuguese men's footballers
Footballers from Guimarães
Men's association football forwards
Primeira Liga players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Campeonato de Portugal (league) players
Liga 3 (Portugal) players
Vitória S.C. B players
Vitória S.C. players
FC Porto B players
F.C. Arouca players
F.C. Penafiel players
C.D. Mafra players
S.C. Covilhã players
AD Fafe players
Varzim S.C. players
Portugal men's youth international footballers