Rui Patrício

Rui Pedro dos Santos Patrício ComM (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʁuj pɐˈtɾisju]; born 15 February 1988) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Wolverhampton Wanderers and the Portugal national team.

This name uses Portuguese naming customs: the first or maternal family name is Santos and the second or paternal family name is Patrício.
Rui Patrício
Patrício with Portugal at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Full name Rui Pedro dos Santos Patrício[1]
Date of birth (1988-02-15) 15 February 1988[2]
Place of birth Regueira de Pontes, Portugal
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)[3]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Number 11
Youth career
1997–2000 Leiria e Marrazes
2000–2006 Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2018 Sporting CP 327 (0)
2018– Wolverhampton Wanderers 98 (0)
National team‡
2003–2004 Portugal U16 5 (0)
2004–2005 Portugal U17 11 (0)
2005–2006 Portugal U18 4 (0)
2006–2007 Portugal U19 10 (0)
2007–2008 Portugal U20 8 (0)
2007–2010 Portugal U21 14 (0)
2010– Portugal 92 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 8 February 2021 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17 November 2020

Before moving to England, he spent most of his career with Sporting CP, making his first team debut at the age of 18 and going on to appear in 467 official games. He won five trophies during his 12-years with the club, including two Portuguese Cups.

Patrício earned his first cap for Portugal in 2010, after Paulo Bento's appointment as head coach. He represented the nation in two World Cups and three European Championships, winning the 2016 edition of the latter tournament as well as the 2019 Nations League.

Club career

Sporting

Born in Leiria District,[4] Patrício played as a striker at a young age. Reportedly, a Sporting CP scout was in the area and saw him play in goal, being impressed enough to sign the 12-year-old to the club's youth academy.[5] He made his Primeira Liga debut on 19 November 2006, in a 1–0 away win against C.S. Marítimo in the tenth round: standing in for habitual club and country first-choice Ricardo, he saved a penalty kick 15 minutes before the end of the game.[6]

Patrício with Sporting in 2012

In the 2007–08 season, after Ricardo's departure to Real Betis, Patrício beat competition from Sporting veteran Tiago and new signing Vladimir Stojković to become the undisputed starter. He made his UEFA Champions League debut on 27 November 2007, in a 1–2 group stage loss at Manchester United.[7]

During the 2008 off-season, Patrício was the subject of a rumored transfer to Italian giants Inter Milan.[8] Nothing came of it, however, and in that year's Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira final, against FC Porto, he stopped a Lucho González penalty in a 2–0 final success,[9] also being an everpresent fixture in the league.

In the qualifying rounds of the 2009–10 Champions League, at FC Twente, Sporting were trailing 0–1 in the 94th minute, after a 0–0 tie in the first leg: Patrício rushed to the opposing area for a corner kick, where he went up for a header with Nikita Rukavytsya. Both players seemed to make contact with the ball, and it was helped into the net for an own goal via the boot of Peter Wisgerhof as the latter side qualified for the last games prior to the group stage.[10]

On 20 December 2012, Patrício was awarded Sporting's Footballer of the Year award for a second consecutive year.[11] On 18 October 2014, with the score at 2–1 for his team, he saved a penalty by Jackson Martínez to help oust Porto from the Taça de Portugal with a 3–1 win at the Estádio do Dragão.[12]

On 24 October 2016, Patrício was one of 30 players nominated for the 2016 Ballon d'Or award alongside Portugal teammates Pepe and Cristiano Ronaldo.[13] The following 18 February he appeared in his 400th competitive game with Sporting, putting on a Player of the match performance in a 1–0 home win against Rio Ave FC.[14]

On 15 May 2018, Patrício and several of his teammates, including coaches, were injured following an attack by around 50 supporters of Sporting at the club's training ground after the team finished third in the league and missed out on Champions League qualification.[15][16] Despite the events, he and the rest of the team agreed to play in the Portuguese Cup final scheduled for the following weekend,[17] eventually losing 2–1 to C.D. Aves.[18]

Wolverhampton Wanderers

On 1 June 2018, Patrício submitted a request to terminate his Sporting contract with grounds for just cause, due to the dressing room violence from supporters as well as seeing an €18 million move to newly promoted Premier League team Wolverhampton Wanderers fall through, after Sporting president Bruno de Carvalho pulled out of negotiations at the last minute.[19][20] He completed the move on 18 June, on a four-year deal,[21] and it was announced on 31 October that both clubs had agreed a €18 million deal as settlement of his departure to England.[22]

Patrício opted to wear the No.11 shirt for Wolves as opposed to the habitual No.1, in honour of Carl Ikeme, who had just retired following treatment for acute leukaemia.[23] He made his league debut on 11 August 2018, in a 2–2 home draw against Everton.[24]

International career
Patrício with Portugal at the 2017 Confederations Cup

From 2007, Patrício started appearing for the Portuguese under-21 side. On 29 January of the following year, senior team coach Luiz Felipe Scolari called him up for a 1–3 friendly defeat against Italy in Zürich,[25] although he did not leave the bench; on 12 May he was picked to the squad for UEFA Euro 2008, but did not play in the tournament.

Although not part of the provisional 24-player list for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa,[26][27] Patrício was named in a backup list of six players.[28] He made his debut on 17 November 2010, playing the second half of a 4–0 friendly win with Spain.[29]

After Eduardo was relegated to the bench at his new club, S.L. Benfica, Patrício became the starter under national team boss Paulo Bento, and both players finished the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign with five games (450 minutes) as Portugal qualified for the final stages. He was the starter in the finals in Poland and Ukraine, conceding four goals in five matches in an eventual semi-final exit.[30]

Patrício was included in Bento's 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup as first-choice,[31] and made his debut in the competition in the first encounter against Germany, which ended with a 0–4 loss.[32] He missed the second game against the United States, due to injury.[33]

Patrício appeared in his 50th international on 30 June 2016, during Euro 2016: after the 1–1 draw to Poland at the Stade Vélodrome during the first 120 minutes, he saved Jakub Błaszczykowski's attempt in a 5–3 penalty shootout win that qualified to the semi-finals.[34] Having won the tournament with a solid display in the final,[35] he also made the squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[36] On 17 November that year, he captained the side for the first time in a goalless draw with Italy in the UEFA Nations League.[37]

As Portugal defeated the Netherlands in the 2019 UEFA Nations League Final on home soil at the Estádio do Dragão, Patrício earned his 81st cap, thereby surpassing Vítor Baía as the nation's most capped goalkeeper.[38]

Career statistics

Club
As of 7 February 2021[39][40]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Sporting 2006–07 Primeira Liga 1000—00—10
2007–08 20050308[lower-alpha 1]000360
2008–09 26010006[lower-alpha 2]01[lower-alpha 3]0340
2009–10 300304014[lower-alpha 4]0—510
2010–11 30020308[lower-alpha 5]0—430
2011–12 280600013[lower-alpha 5]0—470
2012–13 30010107[lower-alpha 5]0—390
2013–14 3001000——310
2014–15 33040008[lower-alpha 6]0—450
2015–16 34020009[lower-alpha 5]01[lower-alpha 3]0460
2016–17 31010006[lower-alpha 2]0—380
2017–18 340503014[lower-alpha 7]0—560
Total 3270310140930204670
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2018–19[41] Premier League 3700000——370
2019–20[42] 380000015[lower-alpha 5]0—530
2020–21[43] 2300000——230
Total 9800000150—1130
Career total 42503101401080205800
  1. Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, six appearances in UEFA Cup
  2. Appearance(s) in UEFA Champions League
  3. Appearance in Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
  4. Four appearances in UEFA Champions League, ten appearances in UEFA Europa League
  5. Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
  6. Six appearances in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Europa League
  7. Eight appearances in UEFA Champions League, six appearances in UEFA Europa League

International
As of 14 October 2020[44]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Portugal 201010
201180
2012110
201390
201460
201570
2016140
2017120
201890
2019100
202030
Total900

Honours
Statue of Patrício and the Henri Delaunay Trophy, unveiled in Leiria in May 2017 to immortalise a save he made from Antoine Griezmann in the Euro 2016 final.[45]

Club

Sporting[46]

International

Portugal[46]

Individual

Orders

Notes
  1. Though there was no third place playoff, UEFA decided in the 2012 edition to award the semi-final losers (Germany and Portugal) bronze medals for the first time: "Regulations for UEFA Euro 2012"

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