Club career Marco Caneira

1 club career

1.1 years
1.2 bordeaux / valencia
1.3 sporting
1.4 late career

club career
early years

born in village of negrais in sintra, lisbon, caneira began career @ sporting clube de portugal youth system, graduating senior squad , making first-team debuts while still junior (aged 17). after signing professional contract, went on loan fellow primeira liga club s.c. beira-mar.

caneira, along fellow sporting players paulo costa , vasco faísca, involved in complicated 2000 transfer between f.c. alverca, had gained 50% of rights, , f.c. internazionale milano. sent reggina calcio, in co-ownership bid. after season bought reggina , sent s.l. benfica, on two-year-long loan.

bordeaux / valencia

in 2001 summer caneira left loan spell, time fc girondins de bordeaux. @ end of campaign, french signed him four-year contract.

after second season caneira loaned out again, time valencia cf, had faced bordeaux twice in 2003–04 edition of uefa champions league. move made permanent on 13 june 2005.

sporting

after one-and-a-half seasons @ valencia, caneira returned portugal , sporting in january 2006, displayed consistent defensive performances, scoring rare goal against former owners inter milan in following season s champions league, in 12 september home win (1–0). in august 2007, although had reached agreement further five-year loan lions, returned quique sánchez flores-led team.

after appearing on second valencia stint, caneira returned third 1 sporting, €3.5 million, signing four-year deal on 25 june 2008. appeared in 32 official games in first season (21 in league, helping team second place), fell out of favour in following years, inclusively not being given jersey 2010–11 campaign, , left club in june 2011.

late career

in last day of 2011 summer transfer window, 32-year-old caneira signed videoton fc in hungary, sharing teams 3 compatriots, including former international teammate paulo sousa, acted club s manager. on 25 october 2012 scored fourth goal professional, netting close range after corner kick in eventual 2–1 home win against fc basel uefa europa league s group stage.

caneira left sóstói stadion @ end of 2014–15 season, having contributed 3 appearances club s second nemzeti bajnokság conquest. after 1 year out football, 36-year-old came out of retirement , joined amateurs srd negrais in lisbon football association.