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Vítor Baía (Born 15 October 1969) is a resigned Portuguese footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His vocation was personally associated with FC Porto, which he began speaking to expertly still in his teenagers. Helping it to 27 titles and in the end staying with the club in an ambassadorial job. Likewise, having played for Barcelona. Baía showed up with the Portugal national group in two European Championships and the 2002 World Cup.
Porto
Vítor Baía made his first-group debuts in a game against Vítoria de Guimarães. He didn’t lose his beginning spot for the accompanying seven seasons. Winning five alliances and two local cups, and yielding just 116 goals. It was somewhere in the range of 1994 and 1996 that he made his name as a world-class goalkeeper. Being decide in favor of the “ESM Team of the Year” after the 1994-95 season and being name in the “IFFHS’ World’s Best Goalkeeper of the Year 1995” list. Completing 6th in the democratic and improving to fifth in the next year. Thus he was name in the Portugal crew for Euro 1996, being move after this competition to Spain’s FC Barcelona. For the most elevated sum paid for a player in the situation on the planet.
Barcelona
While he just missed one La Liga game in his first season, as Barcelona completed second to Real Madrid. Including the battle’s UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, Baía additionally experienced knee issues during his multi year spell.
Furthermore, when Louis van Gaal took over at Barcelona for Bobby Robson, he was dropped from the group for the chief’s compatriot Ruud Hesp, being in this way credited in mid-season back to Porto. Filling the position some said he had “frequented” since his takeoff, as a few goalkeepers had neglected to act in that position.
Bringing Porto Back
In January 1999, Baía came back to Porto, finding the No. 1 pullover inaccessible, so he picked No. 99 rather, with the deals of that number being a triumph, just as the club’s down attendances, exceptionally identified with the player’s arrival. At the point when his vocation appeare to be in the groove again, he was harme again during the 1999–2000 season, requiring a remedial medical procedure on his knee.
In the 2000 summer Baía came back to Barcelona, being quickly discharge and marking with Porto. Following one year uninvolved because of injury. He made his rebound in the 2001-02 crusade, in a stores coordinate against SC Vila Real on 26 November 2001. After sixteen days, on 12 December, he made his serious presentation, against C.D. Santa Clause Clara for the cup.
UEFA Cup & UEFA Champions League
In the 2002–03 season Vítor Baía was fit as a fiddle once more, helping his club win the alliance title, the cup and the UEFA Cup. Showing up in 11 of 13 matches in the last rivalry, including the elimination rounds against S.S. Lazio where he spared an extra shot, and the last against Celtic. It would not be until the accompanying effort when he recaptured full wellness once more, and he would have one of the most noteworthy periods of his vocation, winning the UEFA Champions League and his seventh group trophy in the previous rivalry. He played all matches and minutes as Porto beat AS Monaco FC in the last and, thus.
He was chosen as the “UEFA Club Best Goalkeeper of the Year”, being the primary Portuguese goalkeeper to win this individual title. This was not, be that as it may, adequate for Euro 2004 choice, with Sporting Clube de Portugal’s Ricardo Pereira being dubiously liked.
FIFA.com Talk
Afterward, in 2007, in a FIFA.com talk with, Baía stated: “It’s sort of abnormal on the grounds that I was casted a ballot similar to the best goalkeeper in Europe in the 2003/04 season and a couple of days before the crew for UEFA EURO.
2004 was reported I’d won the Portuguese title and the UEFA Champions League and still, at the end of the day I wasn’t called up”. toward the finish of the period he was named in the rundown for “IFFHS’ World’s Best Goalkeeper of the Year 2004”, completing eighth in the democratic while Ricardo positioned nineteenth.
Global Career
Baía had his senior introduction on 19 December 1990 of every a 1-0 neighborly win over the United States at 21 years old. He proceeded to show up for the national group until 2002. Playing in all the games in UEFA Euro 1996 and 2000 and in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. In Euro 2000, he halted Arif Erdem’s punishment in the 2-0 thrashing of Turkey in the quarterfinals.
Honours
Club:
Porto
Primeira Liga: 1989–90, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1998–99, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07
Taca de Portugal: 1990–91, 1993–94, 1999–2000, 2002–03, 2005–06
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 2003, 2004, 2006
UEFA Champions League: 2003–04
UEFA Cup: 2002–03
Intercontinental Cup: 2004
Barcelona
La Liga: 1997–98
Copa del Rey: 1996–97, 1997–98
Supercopa de España: 1996
UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup: 1996–97
Individual:
Portuguese Footballer of the Year: 1988–89, 1990–91
Portuguese Golden Ball: 1991–92
ESM Team of the Year: 1994–95
UEFA Club Best Goalkeeper of the Year: 2003–04
Best European Goalkeeper: 2004
Tags: Porto, Barcelona, World-Cup, Golden-Ball, Goalkeeper-of-the-Year, Team-of-the-Year, UEFA-Cup, Copa-del-Rey, Primeira-Liga, Footballer-of-the-Year, Champions-League, Intercontinental-Cup
