var playerInfo={"0E9052569923A91555E1DAF3C456F9CD":"<STRONG>M&#225;laga<BR><\/STRONG>UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2002<BR><BR><STRONG>Sevilla<BR><\/STRONG>UEFA Super Cup: 2006<BR>UEFA Cup: 2006&#8211;07<BR>Copa del Rey: 2006&#8211;07<BR>Supercopa de Espa&#241;a: 2007<BR><BR><STRONG>Country<BR><\/STRONG>UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship: 1999","8084EC95B881D770":"Malaga","816C8DE73A2D153866B49ADDE8EB04C4":"Portugal","3F6EEC72E60D52B53E2E6377341938DB":"1","75B83B44A2FCDD1B4FF631FCD2E3CC16":"17","147403B66C8CB5C7":"252","F52748F924D1E675":"71kg","A494ABC507986833":"Sergio Paulo Barbosa Valente, Duda","7F6018B84729B122B8EE7594158DA382":"Sevilla,Levante,Cadiz,Vitoria Guimaraes","1BB8AF7BD3F66066":"175cm","2F200EF80307E2A90BE724565D2038D0":"2009-8-1","3B9127F7BC829326":"1","86178E7285C328960D9569BD40C7D883":"1980-6-27","1A770A41820EA8876555100F4F89BC57":"<P>In June 2007, when left wing-back Duda was called up to the Portugal squad for the first time, there was general surprise among all but the cognoscenti of European football, not least because he has never played in the top flight in his home country, preferring to carve out a career in Spain instead.<BR><BR>In fact, Duda's career bears a striking resemblance to that of Pauleta, the legendary striker who went on to be the national team's record goalscorer. Both players started out in the youth ranks of Portuguese clubs, before making a move across the Iberian peninsula to a club that was not in the top flight of Spanish football. In the case of Malaga's Portuguese winger, he started off with Vitoria de Guimaraes, before starring in the UEFA U-20 European Championship, which the Portuguese won. Duda's performances won him a host of admirers, and some flattering comparisons with a star from a previous generation, Paulo Futre.<BR><BR>On the back of advice from Futre, who himself tasted success in Spain with Atletico Madrid, the young winger signed for Cadiz, in the Spanish Segunda Division. From there, Duda stayed in Andalusia to sign firstly for Malaga, where he enjoyed a successful spell, and Sevilla, with whom he won the UEFA Cup in 2006\/07.<BR><BR>On the back of that success, the talented left-sided player was called up to the Portugal senior squad for the qualifying campaign for UEFA Euro 2008. Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari deployed him at left-back, a role which he went on to fill for his country throughout their successful qualifying campaign for the FIFA World Cup finals&#8482; under Carlos Queiroz. He will be hoping to make a big impression in South Africa, not least in his other roles as a dead-ball expert on direct free-kicks and a deliverer of whipping crosses into the box from out wide.<BR><BR>After suffering an injury during the 2010 World Cup, Duda underwent surgery to fix his pubalgia ailment, and missed the beginning of the new season. In his return to action, on 21 November 2010, he played the first 60 minutes of a 0&#8211;3 away defeat against Deportivo de La Coru&#241;a; on 29 January 2011, he celebrated his 200th Spanish top flight match by scoring against Real Zaragoza, in a 1\u22122 home defeat.<BR><BR>In 2011&#8211;12, following the summer signings of Santi Cazorla and Joaqu&#237;n, and the ostracism to which Manuel Pellegrini voted Apo&#241;o after the first matchday, Duda was often used as a central midfielder. His first goal of the season came on 22 March 2012 &#8211; with his first touch &#8211; from a long-range shot in an eventual 4\u22122 home win over Rayo Vallecano. On 31 March, Duda made his 200th league appearance for M&#225;laga, in a 0\u22122 home defeat against Real Betis.<\/P>","90579B4DEA63C3E4":"Sergio Paulo Barbosa Valente, Duda","4EB8C1CDD4A86AD4B213AF7FAE87E4FE":"Sevilla","7777CB48C34672EC8F83E174F0B7EFC7":"","078F3C827B475FC4":"5031","e_index":2};