Toni Correia Gomes (born 16 November 1998) is a Bissau-Guinean professional

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who plays as a

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for Israeli club Hapoel Hadera and the Guinea-Bissau national team. He also holds Portuguese citizenship and has represented Portugal at youth level.

Club career

Gomes visited his father in

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, Portugal aged 15 and after a recommendation from a scout,

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invited him to England for a trial in September 2014. He signed for the club in 2015; when he arrived in Liverpool he did not speak any English and was placed with house parents whilst attending Liverpool's academy. Between 2015 and 2017 he appeared for Liverpool's Under-18 team, as well as the Under-23 teams. He ended the 2016–17 season scoring a hat-trick as Liverpool Under-23s beat Mansfield Town's Under-23 team. On 31 August 2017 he joined

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on a season-long loan, and made his

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debut as a substitute on 2 September, playing the entire second half. Gomes was released by Liverpool at the end of the 2017–18 season. On 4 June 2018, Gomes signed a three-year deal with

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side Arouca. In January 2020, he moved to Egypt to join Haras El Hodoud, he later signed for Tala'ea El Gaish in November 2020. On 24 August 2023 signed for

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club Hapoel Hadera.

International career

Gomes has represented Portugal at youth international level. He made his senior debut for Guinea-Bissau on 17 November 2022 in a 1-3 friendly loss to

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