Romário Manuel Silva Baró (born 25 January 2000) is a professional footballer who plays for Primeira Liga club Casa Pia on loan from Porto as a midfielder. Born in Guinea-Bissau, Baró represents Portugal internationally at youth level.
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Full name | Romário Manuel Silva Baró | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (2000-01-25) 25 January 2000 (age 22) | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Bissau, Guinea-Bissau | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | |||||||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||||||
Current team |
Casa Pia (on loan from FC Porto) | |||||||||||||||
Number | 17 | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
2011–2012 | Povoense | |||||||||||||||
2012–2014 | Sporting | |||||||||||||||
2014–2019 | Porto | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2018–2021 | Porto B | 46 | (5) | |||||||||||||
2019– | Porto | 19 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2021–2022 | → Estoril (loan) | 15 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2022- | → Casa Pia (loan) | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
2015–2016 | Portugal U16 | 11 | (3) | |||||||||||||
2016–2017 | Portugal U17 | 15 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2018 | Portugal U18 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||
2018–2019 | Portugal U19 | 10 | (1) | |||||||||||||
2019– | Portugal U21 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 October 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 June 2021 |
Born in Bissau in Guinea-Bissau, Baró played in Sporting CP's youth teams before joining FC Porto in 2014.[1] He made his professional debut for the reserves in LigaPro on 21 January 2018, playing the last three minutes of a 1–1 home draw against F.C. Arouca as a substitute for Rui Moreira.[2] He made ten appearances over the season and scored once, to open a 3–0 win over S.C. Covilhã on 18 March, also at the Estádio Dr. Jorge Sampaio.[3]
In the 2018–19 UEFA Youth League, Baró scored six goals in ten appearances as Porto won the title. In the final, he assisted Afonso Sousa for the last goal of a 3–1 win over Chelsea in Nyon, Switzerland.[4] With the B-team in the second division, he scored four goals in 28 games over the season, and was sent off for dissent on 1 September 2018 in a 2–1 home win over Académico de Viseu FC.[5]
Baró was given the first team's number 8 shirt ahead of the 2019–20 season, inheriting it from Yacine Brahimi.[6] He made his debut in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round first leg on 7 August, starting in a 1–0 win away to FC Krasnodar and making way for Luis Díaz on 55 minutes.[7] Ten days later he played his first game in the Primeira Liga, again starting a 4–0 home win against Vitória FC.[8]
On 1 September 2021, he joined Estoril in the Primeira Liga on loan.[9]
Baró has represented Portugal at various youth levels.[10] At the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, where Portugal finished as runners-up to Germany, he appeared in quarterfinal and semifinal games.[11]
Club | Season | League | Cup[lower-alpha 1] | League Cup[lower-alpha 2] | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Porto B | 2017–18 | Liga Portugal 2 | 10 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 10 | 1 | ||||
2018–19 | 28 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 28 | 3 | ||||||
2020–21 | 8 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 8 | 0 | ||||||
Total | 46 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 46 | 4 | ||||||
Porto | 2019–20 | Primeira Liga | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2[lower-alpha 3] | 0 | — | 18 | 0 | |
2020–21 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3[lower-alpha 4] | 0 | 1[lower-alpha 5] | 0 | 16 | 0 | ||
Total | 19 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 0 | ||
Estoril (loan) | 2021–22 | Primeira Liga | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 17 | 0 | ||
Career total | 80 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 97 | 4 |
Porto Youth
Porto
G.D. Estoril Praia – current squad | |
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