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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 28 April 1973 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1989 | Santa Clara | ||||||||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | Porto | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1990–1992 | Santa Clara | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–1994 | Operário | ||||||||||||||||
| 1994 | Angrense | ||||||||||||||||
| 1995 | Micaelense | 23 | (11) | ||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Estoril | 29 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
| 1996–1998 | Salamanca | 71 | (34) | ||||||||||||||
| 1998–2000 | Deportivo La Coruña | 58 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2003 | Bordeaux | 98 | (65) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2008 | Paris Saint-Germain | 168 | (76) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | São Roque | 1 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 459 | (224) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | Portugal U16 | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Portugal U21 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–2006 | Portugal | 88 | (47) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Pedro Miguel Carreiro Resendes ComM OIH (born 28 April 1973), known as Pauleta (Portuguese pronunciation: [pawˈletɐ]), is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a striker.
During 18 years as a senior he never played in the Primeira Liga, having spent 12 of those campaigns in Spain and France. He had his most successful spell at Paris Saint-Germain, where he scored 109 goals across all competitions.[2] Three times the top goalscorer in Ligue 1, he was also voted twice as the division's player of the season.
Pauleta also scored 47 goals in 88 matches for Portugal, a national record at the time of his retirement. He played for his country in two World Cups and two European Championships.
- ^ "2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: Portugal" (PDF). FIFA. 21 March 2014. p. 22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2019.
- ^ Crépin, Timothé (26 January 2017). "Mercato, Ligue 1: Ces Portugais passés par le PSG" [Market, League 1: Portuguese men with spells at PSG] (in French). France Football. Retrieved 12 December 2018.