João Jaquité

João Lamine Jaquité (born 22 February 1996) is a Bissau-Guinean professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Portuguese club C.D. Tondela.

João Jaquité
Personal information
Full name João Lamine Jaquité
Date of birth (1996-02-22) 22 February 1996
Place of birth Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Tondela
Number 5
Youth career
2012–2014 Povoense
2014–2015 Tondela
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014 Povoense 2 (0)
2015– Tondela 44 (0)
2017–2018 → Lusitano Vildemoinhos (loan) 32 (2)
National team‡
2019– Guinea-Bissau 7 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 8 January 2021
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 November 2020

Club career

Born in Bissau, Jaquité started playing organised football in Portugal, with amateurs União Atlético Povoense. On 8 July 2015, C.D. Tondela announced his promotion to the senior team, recently promoted to the Primeira Liga.[1]

Jaquité appeared in his first match as a professional on 20 December 2015, starting and playing 52 minutes in a 1–3 home loss against Vitória F.C. for the top division championship.[2][3] In the 2017–18 season, he was loaned to third level club Lusitano FCV.[4]

International career

Jaquité won his first cap for Guinea-Bissau on 23 March 2019, coming on as a 90th-minute substitute for Zezinho in a 2–2 home draw to Mozambique for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.[5] He was selected for the finals by coach Baciro Candé.[6]

References
  1. "Jaquité assina com o Tondela" [Jaquité signs with Tondela] (in Portuguese). CD Tondela. 8 July 2015. Archived from the original on 9 July 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  2. "Petit estreia Pica e Jaquité na receção ao Vitória de Setúbal" [Petit hands debuts to Pica and Jaquité in reception to Vitória de Setúbal]. A Bola (in Portuguese). 20 December 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  3. "Não há quem marque penaltis" [No penalty scorers]. O Beirão (in Portuguese). 21 December 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  4. Sousa, Ricardo (20 July 2017). "Dispensados de Pepa têm agora duas soluções" [Pepa discards have two options now]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  5. "Guinea-Bissau 2–2 Mozambique". Confederation of African Football. 23 March 2019. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  6. Soliman, Seif (12 June 2019). "Ittihad's Toni Silva named in Guinea Bissau's AFCON squad". KingFut. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
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