Miguel Areias

Portuguese footballer

Miguel Areias
Personal information
Full name	Miguel Alexandre Areias Lopes
Date of birth	(1977-06-02) 2 June 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth	Porto, Portugal
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Left-back
Youth career
1986–1991	Porto
1991–1992	Candal
1992–1993	Espinho
1993–1995	Salgueiros
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1995–1996	Ermesinde
1996–1997	Estrela Portalegre
1997–1998	Juventude Ronfe
1998–2000	Ovarense	61	(11)
2000–2004	Beira-Mar	71	(1)
2004–2007	Porto	9	(0)
2005–2006	→ Boavista (loan)	30	(0)
2006	→ Standard Liège (loan)	10	(1)
2007	→ Celta (loan)	1	(0)
2007–2008	Belenenses	5	(0)
2008–2009	Trofense	14	(0)
2010–2011	Leixões	9	(0)
Total		210	(13)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Miguel Alexandre Areias Lopes (born 2 June 1977), known as Areias, is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played mainly as a left-back.

Club career

After establishing himself as a professional player with S.C. Beira-Mar, Porto-born Areias joined Primeira Liga club FC Porto for the 2004–05 season but, after being rarely used, he was consecutively loaned for the duration of his contract: Boavista FC,^[1] Standard Liège (where he teamed up with former Portuguese internationals Sérgio Conceição and Ricardo Sá Pinto)^[2] and RC Celta de Vigo; arrived in January 2007 at the latter, he only managed one La Liga appearance during his short spell, a 0–2 home loss against RCD Espanyol.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Released, Areias signed with C.F. Os Belenenses on a free transfer, for the 2007–08 campaign.^[6] Unsettled, he switched the following year to newly promoted C.D. Trofense, also in the top division.^[7] After featuring rarely as the Lisbon side finished eighth, he could not help prevent the northern newcomers from being relegated in their first season ever.^[8]

In the summer of 2010, after one year out of football, the 33-year-old Areias signed with Leixões S.C. of the Segunda Liga.^[9] He left at the end of the season, having played less than one third of the league games for the Matosinhos-based team.

Areias retired in 2011, and started working immediately as a players' agent. He returned to Porto four years later, as youth coach.^[10]

References

^ F.C. Porto: Sandro e Areias cedidos por empréstimo ao Boavista (F.C. Porto: Sandro and Areias loaned to Boavista); Mais Futebol, 10 August 2005 (in Portuguese)
^ Areias emprestado ao Standard Liège (Areias loaned to Standard Liège); Record, 8 June 2006 (in Portuguese)
^ El Espanyol manda al Celta a los puestos de descenso (Espanyol send Celta to relegation zone); El Diario Montañés, 12 February 2007 (in Spanish)
^ MIGUEL AREIAS; Yo Jugué en el Celta, 18 April 2008 (in Spanish)
^ Quique Costas debuta con la selección española siendo jugador del Celta (Quique Costas makes debut for Spanish national team as a Celta player); La Voz de Galicia, 11 February 2015 (in Spanish)
^ Areias settles at Belenenses; UEFA, 6 July 2007
^ Exames médicos no arranque da época (Medical exams to kickstart the season); Record, 4 July 2008 (in Portuguese)
^ Trofense perde e desce a segunda Liga (Trofense lose and are relegated to second League); O Notícias da Trofa, 23 May 2009 (in Portuguese)
^ Sai Nelson, entram Areias, Danilo e Dyego Souza (Nelson out, Areias, Danilo and Dyego Souza in); SAPO, 13 July 2010 (in Portuguese)
^ O campeão do mundo pelo Porto que treina os sub-16 do Dragão (The world champion for Porto who coaches the under-16 at the Dragon); Diário de Notícias, 29 October 2017 (in Portuguese)