Nunu Gomes was born in 1976, on July 5, in Amaranti. This is a famous Portuguese footballer who takes the position of striker on the field. He became famous thanks to his performances for the Portuguese national team and FC Benfica. Well, his biography is rich, and it is worth telling about the most interesting facts.
Career at home
Nuno Gomes began his football career with a club such as Boavista. He played for this team from 1994 to 1997. When he was 18 years old, the player made his debut for the main team. This happened in the 1994/95 season. And next year, the player, along with the club, won the Portuguese Cup. In just two seasons, Nuno Gomes played 79 matches for Boavista and scored 23 goals. And the success of the Portuguese football player did not go unnoticed. So in 1997 he received an advantageous offer from such a famous club as Benfica. Naturally, the Portuguese agreed. And not in vain. He gained invaluable experience and became a real shock force of his new team. He scored 60 goals in 101 matches! And this figure is really respectful.
In “Benfica” he played from 1997 to 2000. True, then, after a short transition to Fiorentina - from 2002 to 2011, he again played in this team. And the Italians, by the way, bought the Portuguese for 17 million euros! In the first season, he won the Italian Cup with Fiorentina, but then the violets started having problems with finances, so they had to say goodbye to many players, including a promising Portuguese striker.
Further career
After leaving the “Fiorentina” the football player something went wrong. The first three seasons, he seemed to be on the heels of various injuries. It was for this reason that he could not demonstrate his former performance. However, Nuno Gomes continued to help Benfica achieve new victories. His best season was in 2006. Then he scored 15 goals, among which was a double into the gates of principal opponents - the Porto players. He also designed a hat-trick against FC “Unian Leiria”. Nuno Gomesh is a Benfica legend, and this can be stated with absolute certainty. After all, it was not without reason that he was called the second best scorer of that Championship.
True, in the next season he had to face considerable competition for a place in the first team. Due to the fact that Oscar Cardaso joined the team, they began to give him less playing time. But he continued to enter the field. And in 2008, in the game against “Napoli”, the striker draws his 150 goals for the club. But in 2009 he was sent to the bench. In the 2010/11 season, he gets very little playing time. On November 14, he scored the 200th goal for FC Benfica, which he dedicated to his father, who died in August. And a month before the execution of 35 years, Gomesh becomes a free agent, as the club management did not want to renew the contract. Although he was offered a managerial position at Benfica. But the footballer wanted to play and therefore refused.
“Braga”, “Blackburn Rovers” and a career in the national team
Nuno Gomesh was quickly invited by the leadership of “Braga” to his squad, which the player, of course, agreed. Just a month after signing the contract, he draws up the first goal for his new team.
But for a long time he did not stay there. In 2012, he moved to Blackburn Rovers (the club that left the Premier League that season). He played a year in this team, having entered the field 18 times and scoring four goals. Then in 2013 he ended his career. Throughout his life, he played 459 club matches, in which he scored 177 goals. After that, he became president’s adviser on international affairs at Benfica.
He played for a long time in the national team. From 1991 to 2011 - exactly twenty years! True, he began at age 15. He showed himself excellently at the youth World Cup 1995, and in Euro 2000, and in other world and European championships. But when he became less playing practice in the club - he was no longer so often called up to the team. Therefore, he ended his career in the national team in 2011, after the last match against the Irish team, which took place as part of the qualifying round in Euro 2012.
Achievements and personal life of football player Nuno Gomes
Biography, rating, career - all this is very interesting. But there is another topic, no less interesting. His personal life! The Portuguese footballer had already one marriage, but after him he married again. It was 9 years ago - in 2006. Nuno Gomes and his wife are a happy couple. The chosen one of the football player, by the way, is Patricia Aguilar, and she is a former journalist. The attacker has a daughter from her first marriage named Laura.
Interestingly, Gomesh is not the real name of the football player. His full name sounds like Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro. And Gomesh is a pseudonym that a player took in honor of such a person as Fernando Gomes (a Porto player of the eighties).
And finally, a few words about the achievements of the Portuguese. He is a two-time holder of the Portuguese Cup, twice won the national championship, League Cup and Portuguese Super Cup. He is also the silver medalist of the 2004 European Championship. In general, the player has a lot of achievements. So he ended his career with dignity.