Jorge Vidigal

Jorge Filipe Vidigal (born 29 January 1978) is an Angolan retired footballer who played as a right back.

Jorge Vidigal
Personal information
Full name Jorge Filipe Vidigal
Date of birth (1978-01-29) 29 January 1978
Place of birth Elvas, Portugal
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Right back
Youth career
1987–1993 O Elvas
1993–1994 Fronteirense
1994–1997 O Elvas
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–1998 O Elvas 24 (0)
1998–2000 Estoril 37 (0)
2000–2002 Sporting B 65 (6)
2002 Sporting CP 1 (0)
2002–2003 O Elvas 18 (4)
2003–2006 Olhanense 100 (13)
2006–2008 Beira-Mar 27 (1)
2008–2009 União Madeira 13 (0)
2009–2012 Caála
Total 285 (24)
National team
2011 Angola 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Born in Elvas, Portugal, Vidigal played most of his career in the country's lower leagues, representing hometown club O Elvas CAD (two spells), G.D. Estoril Praia, S.C. Olhanense and C.F. União. He also spent two years at Sporting CP, but appeared almost exclusively for its reserves.

Vidigal's only full Primeira Liga experience came with S.C. Beira-Mar, who signed the player from Olhanense – where he also appeared as a defensive midfielder – on a two-year contract.[1] He only appeared in ten matches in his debut season, and the Aveiro team was relegated.

In the summer of 2008, after a brief stint in Madeira with União, Vidigal joined C.R. Caála, returning to the land of his ancestors.[2]

International career

With his older brother Lito as coach, Vidigal earned one international cap for Angola on 27 August 2011, as a substitute in a 2–1 friendly loss to DR Congo in Dundo.[3]

Personal life

Vidigal was the youngest of 13 brothers and sisters, four of his male siblings also being footballers: Beto, Lito – who represented Angola as a player and coach – Luís (played for Sporting and Portugal with success, spent several years in Italy and was coached by Lito at C.F. Estrela da Amadora) and Toni.[4][5][6] His nephew, André, was also involved in the sport professionally.[7][8]

Honours

Sporting

References
  1. "Boukhari joins new-look Nantes". UEFA. 16 May 2006. Retrieved 31 March 2008.
  2. Comunicado oficial Nº 009/SG/09 de 02 de Março de 2009 (Official announcement Nº 009/SG/09, 2 March 2009) Archived 19 December 2009 at the Wayback Machine; Girabola, 2 March 2009 (in Portuguese)
  3. "Palancas perdem diante dos Leopardos" [Antelopes lose to the Leopards]. Jornal de Angola (in Portuguese). 28 August 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  4. Irmãos Vidigal ignoram os genes para manterem o Estrela da Amadora no topo (Brothers Vidigal ignore genes to leave Estrela on top); Público, 13 October 2008 (in Portuguese)
  5. One family, two nations: Brothers who have played for different international teams; Daily Mirror, 22 June 2010
  6. Luís Vidigal: "O Sporting é paixão, é acreditar" (Luís Vidigal: "Sporting is about passion, believing") Archived 20 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine; Sporting CP, 26 December 2011 (in Portuguese)
  7. "Sobrinho de Luís e Lito Vidigal comprado pelo Fortuna Sittard" [Nephew of Luís and Lito Vidigal bought by Fortuna Sittard] (in Portuguese). Rádio Renascença. 20 December 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  8. "André Vidigal" (in Dutch). Jupiler League. Archived from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  9. "Sporting-Vilanovense, 3–1 (Jardel 44 PG, 83 e 90; Nuno Rocha 33 GP)" [Sporting-Vilanovense, 3–1 (Jardel 44 PK, 83 and 90; Nuno Rocha 33 PK)]. Record (in Portuguese). 17 November 2001. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
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