Miguel Areias

Miguel Areias
Personal information
Full name Miguel Alexandre Areias Lopes
Date of birth (1977-06-02) 2 June 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth Porto, Portugal
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Left-back
Youth career
1986–1991 Porto
1991–1992 Candal
1992–1993 Espinho
1993–1995 Salgueiros
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1996 Ermesinde
1996–1997 Estrela Portalegre
1997–1998 Juventude Ronfe
1998–2000 Ovarense 61 (11)
2000–2004 Beira-Mar 71 (1)
2004–2007 Porto 9 (0)
2005–2006 → Boavista (loan) 30 (0)
2006 → Standard Liège (loan) 10 (1)
2007 → Celta (loan) 1 (0)
2007–2008 Belenenses 5 (0)
2008–2009 Trofense 14 (0)
2010–2011 Leixões 9 (0)
Total 210 (13)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Miguel Alexandre Areias Lopes (born 2 June 1977), known as Areias, is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played mainly as a left-back.

Club career

After establishing himself as a professional player with S.C. Beira-Mar, Porto-born Areias joined Primeira Liga club FC Porto for the 2004–05 season but, after being rarely used, he was consecutively loaned for the duration of his contract: Boavista FC,[1] Standard Liège (where he teamed up with former Portuguese internationals Sérgio Conceição and Ricardo Sá Pinto)[2] and RC Celta de Vigo; arrived in January 2007 at the latter, he only managed one La Liga appearance during his short spell, a 0–2 home loss against RCD Espanyol.[3][4][5]

Released, Areias signed with C.F. Os Belenenses on a free transfer, for the 2007–08 campaign.[6] Unsettled, he switched the following year to newly promoted C.D. Trofense, also in the top division.[7] After featuring rarely as the Lisbon side finished eighth, he could not help prevent the northern newcomers from being relegated in their first season ever.[8]

In the summer of 2010, after one year out of football, the 33-year-old Areias signed with Leixões S.C. of the Segunda Liga.[9] He left at the end of the season, having played less than one third of the league games for the Matosinhos-based team.

Areias retired in 2011, and started working immediately as a players' agent. He returned to Porto four years later, as youth coach.[10]

References

  1. ^ F.C. Porto: Sandro e Areias cedidos por empréstimo ao Boavista (F.C. Porto: Sandro and Areias loaned to Boavista); Mais Futebol, 10 August 2005 (in Portuguese)
  2. ^ Areias emprestado ao Standard Liège (Areias loaned to Standard Liège); Record, 8 June 2006 (in Portuguese)
  3. ^ El Espanyol manda al Celta a los puestos de descenso (Espanyol send Celta to relegation zone); El Diario Montañés, 12 February 2007 (in Spanish)
  4. ^ MIGUEL AREIAS; Yo Jugué en el Celta, 18 April 2008 (in Spanish)
  5. ^ Quique Costas debuta con la selección española siendo jugador del Celta (Quique Costas makes debut for Spanish national team as a Celta player); La Voz de Galicia, 11 February 2015 (in Spanish)
  6. ^ Areias settles at Belenenses; UEFA, 6 July 2007
  7. ^ Exames médicos no arranque da época (Medical exams to kickstart the season); Record, 4 July 2008 (in Portuguese)
  8. ^ Trofense perde e desce a segunda Liga (Trofense lose and are relegated to second League); O Notícias da Trofa, 23 May 2009 (in Portuguese)
  9. ^ Sai Nelson, entram Areias, Danilo e Dyego Souza (Nelson out, Areias, Danilo and Dyego Souza in); SAPO, 13 July 2010 (in Portuguese)
  10. ^ O campeão do mundo pelo Porto que treina os sub-16 do Dragão (The world champion for Porto who coaches the under-16 at the Dragon); Diário de Notícias, 29 October 2017 (in Portuguese)