Jorge Pires
Portuguese footballer
Jorge da Costa Pires (born 1 April 1981) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a striker.
He spent most of his career in LigaPro, totalling 324 matches and a record 113 goals for six teams and being top scorer three times. Additionally, he played 42 Primeira Liga games and scored 11 goals in two spells with Portimonense.
Club career
Born in Amares, Braga District, Pires spent his youth career with Amares and Braga. He made his senior debut with the former in the fourth division before moving into the latter's reserve team in the third. He then had brief lower league spells at Portosantense, Amares again, Pontassolense and Ribeirão.
In 2008, Pires joined Vizela of the second level and a year later Portimonense, whom he helped to promotion as runners-up in his first season and then played in Primeira Liga for the first time, his maiden appearance in the competition occurring on 13 August 2010 in a 1–3 away loss against Braga where he came on as a second-half substitute. After their immediate relegation, he spent the next two years in the second tier with Aves and Feirense respectively.
Pires signed for Moreirense in June 2013, and was the league's top scorer with 22 goals (one more than Porto B's Tózé) as his team won promotion to the top flight as champions. In June 2014, he moved abroad to join Benfica Luanda.
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