Rui Barros
Barros at the 2011 Legends Cup
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Rui Gil Soares de Barros | ||
| Date of birth | 24 November 1965 | ||
| Place of birth | Paredes, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||
| Playing position | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Aliados Lordelo | |||
| 1980–1982 | Rebordosa | ||
| 1982–1983 | Paços Ferreira | ||
| 1983–1984 | Porto | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1984–1985 | Covilhã | 25 | (5) |
| 1985–1987 | Varzim | 30 | (8) |
| 1987–1988 | Porto | 34 | (12) |
| 1988–1990 | Juventus | 60 | (14) |
| 1990–1993 | Monaco | 81 | (14) |
| 1993–1994 | Marseille | 17 | (4) |
| 1994–2000 | Porto | 134 | (25) |
| Total | 381 | (82) | |
| National team | |||
| 1987–1996 | Portugal | 36 | (4) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2005–2010 | Porto (assistant) | ||
| 2006 | Porto (caretaker) | ||
| 2014– | Porto (assistant) | ||
| 2016 | Porto (caretaker) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Rui Gil Soares de Barros (born 24 November 1965) is a former Portuguese professional footballer.
A diminutive attacking midfielder, he played with success in Portugal (at Porto), Italy – at Juventus – and France (two clubs), later becoming an assistant manager.
Over the course of eight seasons Barros amassed Primeira Liga totals of 191 games and 43 goals, all with Porto.
At international level, Barros represented Portugal on 36 occasions between 1987 and 1996, scoring 4 goals.
Born in Paredes, Barros began his senior career with S.C. Covilhã in the second division, helping Varzim S.C. promote to the top flight in his second season as a professional.
The following campaign Barros signed with FC Porto, immediately having an impact: 12 goals in the league, which ended with the championship conquest, also being essential as the northerners began the campaign with two major achievements, the European Super Cup against AFC Ajax and the Intercontinental Cup against C.A. Peñarol; at the season's closure, the player was considered the Portuguese Footballer of the Year.
Barros joined Italian side Juventus in the summer of 1988, where he chose to wear the number 8 shirt, turning down the opportunity to wear the prestegious number 10 shirt which had previously belonged to the club's recently retired star playmaker Michel Platini, whose role he had inherited at the Turin club. He remained with the team for two seasons, scoring 19 goals in 95 appearances across all competitions, and helping the team win a Coppa Italia and UEFA Cup double in 1990. After his stint in Serie A, he signed with AS Monaco FC of France, originally for one year (eventually three); during his spell at the club he notably lost the final of the 1991–92 European Cup Winners' Cup, to SV Werder Bremen.
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