Quim

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Quim
Personal information
Full name	Joaquim Manuel Sampaio da Silva
Date of birth	November 13, 1975 (1975-11-13) (age 32)
Place of birth	Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
Height	1.84 m (6 ft +1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	SL Benfica
Number	12
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1993-2004 2004-	SC Braga SL Benfica	230 (0) 124 (0)
National team2
1999-	Portugal	25 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 07/03/2008. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 07/03/2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Joaquim Manuel Sampaio da Silva, OIH, known as Quim, (pron. IPA: [kĩ]), born in Vila Nova de Famalicão, November 13, 1975 is a Portuguese football player, currently goalkeeper of Sport Lisboa e Benfica in Portugal.

He started his career at SC Braga, where he had his first game during 1994/95, until 2003/04. He moved to SL Benfica in 2004 and was, at first, intermittent in keeping the goalkeeper spot at his new club, having shared the goal with José Moreira in the title-winning 2004/05 season. Next season, he started as the first-choice keeper for Benfica, but injury to him as well as Moreira saw Marcelo Moretto being signed during winter break, controversially snatching a place in the starting eleven.

Quim’s fortunes turned around at the beginning of the 2006/07 season, as new coach Fernando Santos announced that the former Braga man would be his first goalkeeper. The vote of confidence was all Quim needed, and he rarely put in a bad performance since regaining top-goalkeeper status, even when Santos was dismissed early in 2007/08.

[edit] National team

After representing his country at every level from the Under-16s upwards, and a UEFA European Under-18 Championship winner in 1994, he made his senior debut in August 1999 in a 4-0 victory against Andorra, after which he was Portugal's's third-choice keeper at Euro 2000. Quim enjoyed a short cameo as a substitute in the 3-0 win against Germany in the group stage's final round, before establishing himself as number one in the 2002 World Cup qualifying. However, a failed drugs test saw him miss out on the competition held in South Korea and Japan.

He was the second-choice goalkeeper for Portugal during Euro 2004, behind the habitual first keeper Ricardo, a situation repeated at the 2006 World Cup finals.

[edit] See also

• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

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[edit] External links

• Quim's Website

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