João Pinto

João Pinto

João Manuel Vieira Pinto (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈɐ̃w ˈpĩtu, ˈʒwɐ̃w -]; born 19 August 1971) is a Portuguese retired professional footballer who played mostly as a forward. Blessed with playmaking and goalscoring ability, he made his name mostly at a domestic level and as a key figure in the Portuguese national team's "Golden Generation", collecting 152 caps and scoring 47 goals all categories comprised (81/23 for the senior team alone) and representing the country in one World Cup and two European Championships. At the club level, Pinto started his career with Boavista, but it was mainly associated with two of the biggest clubs in the country, Benfica and Sporting, with which he won one Primeira Liga each for a total of six major titles combined. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of João Pinto has received more than 155,269 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). João Pinto is the 1,734th most popular soccer player (up from 2,246th in 2019), the 280th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 274th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Portuguese Soccer Player.