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Vasco Manuel Vilhena Faísca Teixeira (born 27 August 1980), known as Faísca, is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a defender, currently the manager of Farense.

Vasco Faísca

Personal information
Full name	Vasco Manuel Vilhena Faísca Teixeira
Date of birth	(1980-08-27) 27 August 1980 (age 41)
Place of birth	Lisbon, Portugal
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Club information
Current team	Farense (manager)
Youth career
1991–1996	Farense
1996–1998	Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1998–2000	Sporting CP	0	(0)
1998–2000	→ Lourinhanense (loan)	57	(1)
2000–2004	Vicenza	82	(1)
2004–2005	Académica	32	(0)
2005–2007	Belenenses	22	(0)
2007–2010	Padova	91	(0)
2010–2013	Ascoli	112	(3)
2013–2014	Platanias	26	(1)
2014–2015	Matera	28	(0)
2015–2016	Maceratese	35	(1)
2016–2017	Virtus Francavilla	18	(0)
Total		503	(7)
National team
2001–2002	Portugal U21	15	(0)
Teams managed
2017–2018	Vianense (youth)[1]
2018–2019	Vilafranquense (assistant)
2019	Olhanense
2019–2021	Braga B
2021	Alverca
2022–	Farense
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He spent the vast majority of his professional career in Italy after starting out at Sporting CP, representing in the country Vicenza, Padova and Ascoli and appearing in one Serie A match with the first club.[2]

Club career

Born in Lisbon, Faísca was a product of Sporting CP's youth system. In the summer of 2000 he was signed by Inter Milan alongside teammates Marco Caneira and Paulo Costa, in co-ownership with other clubs;[3] he was sold to Vicenza Calcio for 1,200 million lire (€619,748).[4]

Faísca stayed in Italy and played with Vicenza Calcio for four seasons – one game in Serie A in 2000–01, the rest of his spell in Serie B[2]– before his rights were acquired fully in June 2004.[5] Shortly after, however, he returned to Portugal and joined Académica de Coimbra, making his Primeira Liga debut and being first choice (only two matches missed) as the Students narrowly avoided relegation.

In the 2005 off-season, Faísca signed for C.F. Os Belenenses, being fairly used in his first year but being deemed surplus to requirements soon afterwards. In January 2007 he returned to Italy, joining Serie C1 team Calcio Padova and winning promotion in his second full campaign.[2]

On 31 August 2010, Faísca moved to second-tier Ascoli Calcio 1898 as part of the deal that involved Jonas Portin.[6] He suffered relegation at the end of 2012–13, terminating his contract which still had another year running.

Until his retirement at the age of 37, and save for one year in the Super League Greece with Platanias FC,[7] Faísca competed in the Italian lower leagues, where he represented S.S. Matera Calcio, S.S. Maceratese 1922 and Virtus Francavilla Calcio.[8] He started his senior managerial career as an assistant at U.D. Vilafranquense[9] and, on 5 February 2019, was named head coach of S.C. Olhanense.[10]

International career

Faísca appeared for the Portugal under-21 team at the 2002 UEFA European Championship in Switzerland, playing all group games as starter as the nation exited in that stage.[2]

References

External links

• Vasco Faísca at ForaDeJogo (archived)
• Vasco Faísca manager stats at ForaDeJogo
• Vasco Faísca at TuttoCalciatori (in Italian)
• AIC Football profile (in Italian)
• National team data (in Portuguese)
• Vasco Faísca at Soccerway

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Vasco Manuel Vilhena Faísca Teixeira (Lisbona, 27 agosto 1980) è un allenatore di calcio ed ex calciatore portoghese, di ruolo difensore, tecnico del Farense.

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