Pedro Mendes (footballer, born 1999)

Pedro Manuel Lobo Peixoto Mineiro Mendes (born 1 August 1999) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a striker for C.D. Nacional on loan from Sporting CP.

Pedro Mendes
Personal information
Full name Pedro Manuel Lobo Peixoto Mineiro Mendes[1]
Date of birth (1999-08-01) 1 August 1999[1]
Place of birth Guimarães, Portugal[1]
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Nacional
(on loan from Sporting CP)
Number 19
Youth career
2008–2012 Vitória Guimarães
2012–2013 Sandinenses
2013–2014 Vitória Guimarães
2014–2017 Moreirense
2017–2020 Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2019 Sporting U23 53 (32)
2019– Sporting CP 6 (0)
2020–2021 → Almería (loan) 10 (0)
2021– → Nacional (loan) 1 (0)
National team‡
2017 Portugal U18 5 (1)
2019– Portugal U21 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 February 2021
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14 November 2019

Club career

Born in Guimarães, Mendes started his youth career with local clubs Vitória S.C. and Moreirense F.C. before joining Sporting CP's academy at the age of 18.[2] On 19 September 2019, after having scored seven goals in six games for the under-23 side to start the new season and before he had made his debut with the first team in the Primeira Liga due to registration problems,[3] he appeared with the latter in a group stage match in the UEFA Europa League against PSV Eindhoven, and found the net immediately after having come as an 81st-minute substitute for fellow youth graduate Miguel Luís, albeit in a 3–2 away defeat;[4] in the process, he became Sporting's first player to achieve the feat on his debut in European competition.[2]

Mendes finally made his debut in the Portuguese top division on 11 January 2020, playing 14 minutes in the 3–1 away victory over Vitória de Setúbal.[5] On 16 September, he joined Spanish Segunda División side UD Almería on a season-long loan.[6] The following 1 February, however, he signed with C.D. Nacional also on loan.[7]

International career

Mendes won his first cap for Portugal at under-21 level on 11 October 2019, in a 2–4 away loss against the Netherlands in the 2021 UEFA European Championship qualifiers where he replaced A.C. Milan's Rafael Leão.[8]

References
  1. "Pedro Mendes" (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  2. Roseiro, Bruno (19 September 2019). "Pedro Mendes, o avançado que custou 300 mil euros, fugiu à lógica da academia e fez história no Sporting" [Pedro Mendes, the forward who cost 300 thousand euros, detached from the academy's logic and made history at Sporting]. Observador (in Portuguese). Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  3. Lopes, João; Granada, Ricardo (3 October 2019). "Pedro Mendes forçado a esperar" [Pedro Mendes forced to wait]. Record (in Portuguese). Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  4. "PSV begint Europa League met nipte zege op Sporting" [PSV start Europa League with narrow victory over Sporting] (in Dutch). Nederlandse Omroep Stichting. 19 September 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  5. Fernandes, Nuno (11 January 2020). "Sporting vence em cenário viral mas ficou com marcas para o dérbi" [Sporting win in viral setting but were scarred for derby]. Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  6. "Almería sign the Portuguese leading forward Pedro Mendes". UD Almería. 16 September 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  7. Aleixo, Mário (1 February 2021). "Pedro Mendes reforça Nacional por empréstimo do Sporting" [Pedro Mendes bolsters Nacional on loan from Sporting] (in Portuguese). Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  8. "Portugal sofre primeira derrota na qualificação para o Euro 2021" [Portugal suffer first loss in Euro 2021 qualifiers]. Record (in Portuguese). 11 October 2019. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
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