Pedro Empis
Personal information
Full name Pedro Carvalhosa Empis[1]
Date of birth (1997-02-01) 1 February 1997[1]
Place of birth Lisbon, Portugal[1]
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Position(s) Left-back
Team information
Current team
 União Leiria
Number 14
Youth career
2007–2011 Estoril
2011–2016 Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2018 Sporting CP B 29 (0)
2017–2018 → Académica (loan) 11 (0)
2018–2019 Sporting U23 22 (0)
2019–2021 Estoril 3 (0)
2021–2022 Cultural Leonesa 22 (0)
2022– União Leiria 32 (1)
International career
2013–2014 Portugal U17 10 (0)
2015–2016 Portugal U19 13 (1)
2016–2017 Portugal U20 5 (0)
2016 Portugal U21 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 4 January 2024

Pedro Carvalhosa Empis (born 1 February 1997) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a left-back for U.D. Leiria.

Club career

Born in Lisbon, Empis joined local Sporting CP's youth system at the age of 14, from neighbouring G.D. Estoril Praia. On 6 August 2016 he made his senior debut with the former's B team, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–2 home loss against Portimonense S.C. in the Segunda Liga.[2]

For the 2017–18 season, Empis was loaned to Académica de Coimbra of the same league.[3] After cutting ties with Sporting, he returned to Estoril.[4]

Empis signed a two-year contract with Spanish Primera División RFEF club Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa on 23 June 2021.[5]

International career

Empis won his only cap for Portugal at under-21 level on 11 October 2016 at the age of 19, as a second-half substitute for Ricardo Horta in the 7–1 away rout of Liechtenstein in the 2017 UEFA European Championship qualifiers.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Pedro Empis" (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  2. ↑ "Sporting B-Portimonense, 1–2: Pires bisa na reviravolta algarvia" [Sporting B-Portimonense, 1–2: Pires grabs brace in Algarvean comeback]. Record (in Portuguese). 6 August 2016. Archived from the original on 22 April 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Académica contrata três jogadores ao Sporting" [Académica sign three players from Sporting]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 29 June 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  4. ↑ "Pedro Empis é reforço para Tiago Fernandes" [Pedro Empis is an addition for Tiago Fernandes]. A Bola (in Portuguese). 3 September 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  5. ↑ Fraguas, Ángel (23 June 2021). "La Cultural ficha a Empis y a Obolskii y echa a Araújo" [Cultural sign Empis and Obolskii and release Araújo]. Diario de León (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "Sub-21: Liechtenstein-Portugal, 1–7 (crónica)" [Under-21: Liechtenstein-Portugal, 1–7 (match report)] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 11 October 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
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