Quim
Personal information
Full name	Joaquim Manuel Sampaio da Silva
Date of birth	November 13, 1975 (1975-11-13) (age 32)
Place of birth	Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal
Height	1.84 m (6 ft +1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	SL Benfica
Number	12
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1993-2004 2004-	SC Braga SL Benfica	230 (0) 124 (0)
National team2
1999-	Portugal	26 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 07/03/2008. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 31 May 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Joaquim Manuel Sampaio da Silva, OIH, known as Quim, (pron. IPA: [kĩ]), born in Vila Nova de Famalicão, November 13, 1975 is a Portuguese football player, currently goalkeeper of Sport Lisboa e Benfica in Portugal.

He started his career at SC Braga, where he had his first game during 1994/95, until 2003/04. He moved to SL Benfica in 2004 and was, at first, intermittent in keeping the goalkeeper spot at his new club, having shared the goal with José Moreira in the title-winning 2004/05 season. Next season, he started as the first-choice keeper for Benfica, but injury to him as well as Moreira saw Marcelo Moretto being signed during winter break, controversially snatching a place in the starting eleven.

Quim’s fortunes turned around at the beginning of the 2006/07 season, as new coach Fernando Santos announced that the former Braga man would be his first goalkeeper. The vote of confidence was all Quim needed, and he rarely put in a bad performance since regaining top-goalkeeper status, even when Santos was dismissed early in 2007/08.

National team

After representing his country at every level from the Under-16s upwards, and a UEFA European Under-18 Championship winner in 1994, he made his senior debut in August 1999 in a 4-0 victory against Andorra, after which he was Portugal's's third-choice keeper at Euro 2000. Quim enjoyed a short cameo as a substitute in the 3-0 win against Germany in the group stage's final round, before establishing himself as number one in the 2002 World Cup qualifying. However, a failed drugs test saw him miss out on the competition held in South Korea and Japan.

He was the second-choice goalkeeper for Portugal during Euro 2004, behind the habitual first keeper Ricardo, a situation repeated at the 2006 World Cup finals.

See also

• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

Look up quim in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Again 2nd choice in Euro2008, had the bad luck of suffering damage in is right wrist, the day before the 1st game.

References