Vítor Manuel Carvalho Oliveira (born 15 March 2000), also known as Vitinha,[2] is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Primeira Liga club Braga.
| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Vítor Manuel Carvalho Oliveira[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (2000-03-15) 15 March 2000 (age 22)[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Cabeceiras de Basto, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Braga | ||
| Number | 99 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2012–2015 | Casa Benfica | ||
| 2015–2017 | Águias Alvite | ||
| 2017–2020 | Braga | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2020–2021 | Braga B | 15 | (13) |
| 2021– | Braga | 38 | (12) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2018 | Portugal U18 | 3 | (0) |
| 2021– | Portugal U21 | 4 | (3) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:34, 14 November 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:06, 11 June 2022 (UTC) | |||
Oliveira was born in Cabeceiras de Basto, Braga District.[2] In his first season as a senior, 2020–21, he scored nine goals in only 11 matches for Braga's reserves in the third division.[3]
On 18 January 2021, Oliveira signed a professional contract until 2024.[4] He made his Primeira Liga debut for the first team on 28 February, coming on as a late substitute for Abel Ruiz in a 2–1 away win against Nacional.[5]
Oliveira scored his first goal in the Portuguese top flight on 25 October 2021, the only in the fixture at Gil Vicente.[6] The following month, in the fourth round of the Taça de Portugal, he netted four times in a 6–0 home victory over Santa Clara; he completed his hat-trick in the first 15 minutes of the game.[7]
On 30 December 2021, Oliveira scored three goals in the first half of an eventual 6–0 away rout of Arouca.[8] The following 10 March, again after having replaced Ruiz, he closed the 2–0 home defeat of Monaco in the round of 16 of the UEFA Europa League with an 89th-minute header.[9]
On 13 October 2022, Oliveira scored three times in a 3–3 away draw against Union Saint-Gilloise in the Europa League group stage.[10]
Oliveira made his debut for Portugal at under-21 level on 16 November 2021, replacing Gonçalo Ramos at the hour-mark of a 6–0 win against Cyprus in the 2023 UEFA European Championship qualifiers.[11] He scored three goals during that stage, in away victories over Belarus (5–1)[12] and Liechtenstein (9–0).[13]
In October 2022, Oliveira was named in a preliminary 55-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.[14]
A complete striker with physical strength, which allows him to excel at protecting the ball and turning around to attack the goal, Oliveira also possesses speed with and without the ball, mobility and a good positional sense.[15]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Braga B | 2020–21 | Campeonato de Portugal | 11 | 9 | — | — | — | — | 11 | 9 | ||||
| 2021–22 | Liga 3 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Total | 15 | 13 | — | — | — | — | 15 | 13 | ||||||
| Braga | 2020–21 | Primeira Liga | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | |||
| 2021–22 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 9[lower-alpha 1] | 1 | 1[lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 38 | 14 | ||
| 2022–23 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4[lower-alpha 1] | 4 | — | 15 | 8 | |||
| Total | 35 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 23 | ||
| Career total | 50 | 24 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 36 | ||
Braga
S.C. Braga – current squad | |
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