Portuguese footballer

João Pedro Mingote Ribeiro (born 2 August 1980), known as Mingote, is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a goalkeeper and the goalkeeper coach for Romanian second division club Pandurii Târgu Jiu

Club career

Born in Santa Maria da Feira, Aveiro District, Mingote's professional input in his homeland consisted of 66 Segunda Liga games over the course of five seasons, with *ociação Naval 1º de Maio and A.D. Ovarense. In 2004–05, he played understudy to Sérgio Leite as the latter club finished in 12th position.

During the 2008 January transfer window, Mingote left for Romania – where he would remain the following decade – and signed with CS Pandurii Târgu Jiu from lower league side A.D. Lousada. In the 2012–13 campaign, he contributed with 26 games to help the former team to a best-ever second place in Liga I.

Mingote left the Stadionul Municipal in the summer of 2016, going on to represent ASA 2013 Târgu Mureș and CS Universitatea Craiova.

References

External links

• Pedro Mingote at ForaDeJogo
• Pedro Mingote at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian) and StatisticsFootball.com
• National team data (in Portuguese)
• Pedro Mingote at Soccerway
• Pedro Mingote at WorldFootball.net