Diogo Dalot

Diogo Dalot
Personal information
Full name José Diogo Dalot Teixeira[1]
Date of birth (1999-03-18) 18 March 1999[1]
Place of birth Braga, Portugal
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Playing position Full-back
Club information
Current team
 Manchester United
Number 20
Youth career
2008–2017 Porto
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2018 Porto B 23 (2)
2017–2018 Porto 6 (0)
2018– Manchester United 0 (0)
National team‡
2014 Portugal U15 2 (0)
2014–2015 Portugal U16 8 (0)
2015–2016 Portugal U17 19 (2)
2016–2017 Portugal U19 15 (0)
2017– Portugal U20 7 (0)
2017– Portugal U21 4 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:54, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:54, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

José Diogo Dalot Teixeira (Portuguese pronunciation: [diˈoɡu dɐˈlo];[2] born 18 March 1999) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a full-back for Premier League club Manchester United.

Club career

Porto

Born in Braga, Dalot joined Porto's youth system in 2008, aged nine.[3] On 28 January 2017 he made his senior debut with the B team, playing the full 90 minutes in a 2–1 home loss against Leixões S.C. for the LigaPro championship.[4]

Dalot first appeared with the first team in competitive games on 13 October 2017, starting in a 6–0 away win over Lusitano G.C. for the season's Taça de Portugal.[5] He first played in the Primeira Liga on 18 February 2018, coming on as a 75th-minute substitute in a 5–0 home routing of Rio Ave FC.[6]

Manchester United

Dalot signed for Premier League club Manchester United on 6 June 2018 on a five-year contract for a fee of £19 million.[7]

He made his debut on 19 September 2018 in an away UEFA Champions League group stage match against Swiss side BSC Young Boys, and was praised by his manager José Mourinho.[8]

International career

Dalot helped Portugal win the 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, scoring twice in five games in Azerbaijan including once in the final against Spain.[9] The same year, he helped the under-19 team reach the quarter-finals of the same competition.[10]

Dalot represented the nation at the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup,[11] starting in all the matches in an eventual quarter-final exit.[12]

Career statistics

As of 25 September 2018
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup[lower-alpha 1] League Cup Europe[lower-alpha 2] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Porto B 2016–17[1] LigaPro 30———30
2017–18[1] LigaPro 202———202
Total 232———232
Porto 2017–18[1][13] Primeira Liga 6010001080
Manchester United 2018–19[14] Premier League 0000101020
Career total 292101020332
  1. ↑ Appearance in Taça de Portugal
  2. ↑ Appearance in UEFA Champions League

Honours

Porto

Portugal U17

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Diogo Dalot: Summary". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  2. ↑ RTP, RTP, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal -. "Diogo Dalot a caminho do Manchester United".
  3. ↑ Travassos, Nuno (3 June 2016). "Dalot, o vaivém minhoto" [Dalot, the whirlwind from Minho] (in Portuguese). Maisfutebol. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  4. ↑ ""Bês" perdem na receção ao Leixões" [B's host Leixões and lose] (in Portuguese). FC Porto. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Análise Lusitano 0–6 FC Porto: Como gerires o teu 'dragão'" [Lusitano 0–6 FC Porto analysis: How to run one's 'dragon'] (in Portuguese). SAPO. 14 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "F. C. Porto goleia Rio Ave e volta à liderança" [F. C. Porto rout Rio Ave and reclaim first place]. Jornal de Notícias (in Portuguese). 18 February 2018. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  7. ↑ Stone, Simon (6 June 2018). "Diogo Dalot: Manchester United sign Porto right-back for £19m". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  8. ↑ "Man Utd: Diogo Dalot could be at club for 10 years - Jose Mourinho". 19 September 2018 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  9. ↑ "Portugal win second U17 EURO title on penalties". UEFA. 21 May 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "Mbappé helps France past Portugal". UEFA. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  11. ↑ "Dalot targeting back-to-back golden summers". FIFA. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  12. ↑ "Uruguay progress, Portugal pay the penalty". FIFA. 4 June 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  13. ↑ "Mission accomplished with a beating". FC Porto. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  14. ↑ "Games played by Diogo Dalot in 2018/2019". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  15. ↑ "FC Porto é campeão nacional 2017/2018" [FC Porto are 2017/2018 national champions] (in Portuguese). Maisfutebol. 5 May 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  16. ↑ "Technical report" (PDF). UEFA. pp. 31–32. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  17. ↑ "The UEFA technical team: Team of the Tournament". UEFA. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
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