vendredi 16 novembre 2007

Pauleta

Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes(nicknamed Pauleta was born in 1973).
He is a striker who currently plays for the Paris Saint-Germain where he is team captain (when he plays … at this time he doesn’ t play always).
He is the best scorer for the " Seleçao " (the national portuguese team) with 47 goals in 89 matches (the second Eusebio scored 41 goals).

He is famous for his goal celebration.
In fact, when he scored, he imitated a goshawk ,a bird of this native land.

Pauleta started his career with União Micaelense in 1994 in 2nd division.
The next season,he moved to Estoril in 1995.
He continued this career in Spain with Salamanca in 1996, he played with succesful during two seasons,the 1st with 19 goals in 2nd division,the 2nd in Liga (in the supreior level) with 15 goals.
In 1998,he went to RC Deportivo La Coruna in 1998.
Pauleta enjoyed a two-year spell with this team, hitting 33 goals in 92 matches.
He won the Liga in 2000.


Pauleta discovered the French Championship (League 1) in September 2000 with Bordeaux.
For this first match he scored a hat-trick in Nantes (5-0 for Bordeaux in Nantes ,the future champion).
For this 1st season in France he scored 20 goals.The two next seasons, he scored 22 and 23 goals.
In 2002,he won the French League Cup and he was the top goal scorer in Ligue 1.Then,he was two times Ligue 1 Footballer of the Year by fellow players and coaches (2002 and 2003)
He joined Paris Saint-Germain ahead of the 2003/2004 season, for 12m€.
He won the French Cup in 2004 (he scored the goal of victory, of course) and in 2006.
He was the top goal scorer, two others time in 2006(21 goals) and in 2007(15 goals).

For the National team, he hasn't more chance.He played 2 Euros (2000,2004) and 2 World Cup (2002,2006) as he didn't win a trophee.
In 2000, he lost in semi-final against France.
In 2002,he scored a hat-trick against Poland as the Portugal was eliminated in 1st phase.
In 2004, he lost in final against Greece at home.
He doesn’t score in this tournament, he was a big regret for him.
In 2006,he was eliminated in semi-final again against France.

1 commentaire:

Julien a dit…

I prefer Yohann Gouffran