Rui Filipe

Rui Filipe

Personal information
Full name	Rui Filipe Tavares de Bastos
Date of birth	(1968-03-08)8 March 1968
Place of birth	Vale de Cambra, Portugal
Date of death
Place of death	Porto, Portugal
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1981–1986	Valecambrense
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1986–1987	Valecambrense
1987–1988	Gil Vicente
1988–1990	Espinho	33	(1)
1990–1991	Gil Vicente	33	(3)
1991–1994	Porto	65	(4)
International career
1992–1993	Portugal	4	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rui Filipe Tavares de Bastos (8 March 1968 – 28 August 1994) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a central midfielder.

Football career

Born in Vale de Cambra, Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto, Filipe began his professional career with Gil Vicente F.C. in the second division, then played two seasons with S.C. Espinho, one of them in the top flight, at the age of 20. In 1990 he returned to Gil, helping the Barcelos side maintain its top level status after finishing 13th.

Subsequently Filipe was bought by FC Porto, scoring four goals in 25 matches in his first year as the club won the league – during that timeframe, he first reached the Portuguese national team. In the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League he helped his team reach the semifinals, notably opening the scoresheet at SV Werder Bremen in a 5–0 first group stage win.

Filipe continued to be an important midfield element for Porto in the following years. In the beginning of the 1994–95 campaign he scored in the league opener, and also helped his team to the season's domestic Supercup after defeating S.L. Benfica; however, in late August, he died in a car accident at the age of only 26.

Honours

• Portuguese League: 1991–92, 1992–93, 1994–95
• Portuguese Cup: 1993–94
• Portuguese Supercup: 1992, 1993, 1994

External links

• Rui Filipe at footballzz.co.uk
• Rui Filipe profile at ForaDeJogo
• Rui Filipe at National-Football-Teams.com