Rui Patrício

This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Dos Santos and the second or paternal family name is Patrício.
Rui Patrício

Patrício playing for Portugal in 2012
Personal information
Full name Rui Pedro dos Santos Patrício
Date of birth (1988-02-15) 15 February 1988
Place of birth Marrazes, Portugal
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Sporting CP
Number 1
Youth career
1997–2000 Leiria Marrazes
2000–2006 Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
2006– Sporting CP 259 (0)
National team‡
2003–2004 Portugal U16 5 (0)
2004–2005 Portugal U17 11 (0)
2005–2006 Portugal U18 4 (0)
2006–2007 Portugal U19 10 (0)
2007–2008 Portugal U20 8 (0)
2007–2010 Portugal U21 14 (0)
2010– Portugal 43 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 00:00, 25 April 2016 (UTC).
† Appearances (goals)

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 00:00, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Rui Pedro dos Santos Patrício (born 15 February 1988) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Sporting Clube de Portugal and the Portugal national team.

He spent most of his career with Sporting, making his debuts with the first team at only 18 and going on to appear in more than 300 official games.

Patrício gained his first cap for Portugal in 2010, after Paulo Bento's appointment.

Club career

Born in Marrazes, Leiria, Patrício played as a striker at a young age. Reportedly, a Sporting Clube de Portugal scout was in the area and saw him play in goal, being impressed enough to sign the 12-year-old to the club's youth academy. He made his Primeira Liga debut on 19 November 2006, in a 1–0 away win against C.S. Marítimo in the 10th round: standing in for habitual club and country first-choice Ricardo, he saved a penalty kick 15 minutes before the end of the game.[1]

In the 2007–08 season, after Ricardo's departure to Real Betis, Patrício beat competition from Sporting veteran Tiago and new signing Vladimir Stojković to become the undisputed starter. On 27 November 2007 he made his UEFA Champions League debut, in a 1–2 group stage loss at Manchester United.[2]

During the 2008 off-season, Patrício was the subject of a rumored transfer to Italian giants Inter Milan.[3] However, nothing came of it and, in that year's Portuguese Supercup final, against FC Porto, he stopped a Lucho González penalty in a 2–0 final success,[4] also being an everpresent fixture in the league.

In the qualifying rounds of the 2009–10 Champions League, at FC Twente, Sporting were trailing 0–1 in the 94th minute, after a 0–0 tie in the first leg: Patrício rushed to the opposing area for a corner kick, he went up for a header with Nikita Rukavytsya, both players seemed to make contact with the ball, and it was helped into the net for an own goal via the boot of Peter Wisgerhof, as Sporting eventually qualified for the last games prior to the group stage.[5]

On 20 December 2012, Patrício was awarded Sporting's Footballer of the Year award for a second consecutive year.[6][7] On 18 October 2014, with the score at 2–1 for Sporting, he saved a penalty by Jackson Martínez to help oust Porto from the Portuguese Cup with a 3–1 win at the Estádio do Dragão.[8]

International career

From 2007, Patrício started appearing for the under-21 side. On 29 January of the following year, senior team coach Luiz Felipe Scolari called him for a 1–3 friendly defeat against Italy in Zürich,[9] although he did not leave the bench; on 12 May he was picked to the national squad for UEFA Euro 2008, but did not play in the tournament.

Although not part of the provisional 24-player list for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa,[10][11] Patrício was named in a backup list of six players.[12] He made his debut on 17 November 2010, playing the second half of a 4–0 friendly win with Spain.[13]

After Eduardo was relegated to the bench at his new club, S.L. Benfica, Patrício became the starter under national team boss Paulo Bento, and both players finished the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign with five games (450 minutes) as Portugal qualified for the final stages. He was the starter in the finals in Poland and Ukraine, conceding four goals in five matches in an eventual semifinal exit.[14]

Patrício was included in Bento's 23-man squad for the 2014 World Cup as first-choice,[15] and made his debut in the competition in the first encounter against Germany, which ended with a 0–4 loss.[16] He missed the second game against the United States, due to injury.[17]

Career statistics

Club

As of 24 January 2016[18][19]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Sporting 2006–07 Primeira Liga 1000—00—10
2007–08 Primeira Liga 20050308[lower-alpha 1]000360
2008–09 Primeira Liga 26010006[lower-alpha 2]01[lower-alpha 3]0340
2009–10 Primeira Liga 300204014[lower-alpha 4]0—500
2010–11 Primeira Liga 30020308[lower-alpha 5]0—430
2011–12 Primeira Liga 280600013[lower-alpha 5]0—470
2012–13 Primeira Liga 30010107[lower-alpha 5]0—390
2013–14 Primeira Liga 3001000——310
2014–15 Primeira Liga 33040008[lower-alpha 6]0—450
2015–16 Primeira Liga 19030007[lower-alpha 5]01[lower-alpha 3]0300
Career total 2470250110710203560
  1. ↑ Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, six in UEFA Cup
  2. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  3. 1 2 Appearance in Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
  4. ↑ Four appearances in UEFA Champions League, ten in UEFA Europa League
  5. 1 2 3 4 Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  6. ↑ Six appearances in UEFA Champions League, two in UEFA Europa League

International

As of 29 March 2016[20]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Portugal 201010
201180
2012110
201390
201460
201570
201610
Total430

Honours

[21]

Club

Individual

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Rui Patrício entra na história" [Rui Patrício makes history]. Record (in Portuguese). 20 November 2006. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "Ronaldo underlines United authority". UEFA.com. 27 November 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Rui Patrício por Toldo" [Rui Patrício for Toldo]. Record (in Portuguese). 17 June 2008.
  4. ↑ Djaló double steers Sporting success; UEFA.com, 16 August 2008
  5. ↑ "Sporting late show shatters Twente". UEFA.com. 4 August 2009.
  6. 1 2 Prémios Stromp 2011 – 49ª edição 16 de Dezembro (Stromp awards 2011 – 49ª edition 16 of December); Forum SCP, 16 December 2011 (Portuguese)
  7. 1 2 Vencedores dos prémios Stromp (Stromp awards winners); Record, 20 December 2012 (Portuguese)
  8. ↑ "Sporting dump Porto out of the Portuguese Cup". PortuGOAL. 18 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  9. ↑ "Rui Patrício chamado por Scolari" [Rui Patrício called by Scolari]. Record (in Portuguese). 29 January 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  10. ↑ "Convocados revelados" [Squad revealed] (in Portuguese). Portuguese Football Federation. 10 May 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  11. ↑ "Pepe in Portugal squad". FIFA.com. 10 May 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  12. ↑ Release list of up to 30 players; FIFA.com
  13. ↑ "Portugal 4–0 Spain". ESPN Star Sports. 18 November 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  14. ↑ "Spain survive test of nerve to reach final". UEFA.com. 27 June 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  15. ↑ "Portugal World Cup 2014 squad". The Daily Telegraph. 2 June 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  16. ↑ "Muller-inspired Germany thrash ten-man Portugal". FIFA.com. 16 June 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  17. ↑ "Portugal defender Fabio Coentrao ruled out for rest of the World Cup with thigh injury". Daily Mail. 17 June 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  18. ↑ "Rui Patrício". ForaDeJogo. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  19. ↑ "Rui Patrício". Soccerway. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  20. ↑ "Rui Patrício". European Football. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  21. ↑ "Rui Patrício – Trophies". Soccerway. Retrieved 19 March 2014.

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