Bruno Basto

Bruno Basto

150px Basto in 2015
Personal information
Full name	Bruno Miguel Leite Basto
Date of birth	(1978-05-21) 21 May 1978
Place of birth	Lisbon, Portugal
Height
Position(s)	Left back
Youth career
1989–1996	Benfica
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1996–1997	Alverca	37	(1)
1998–2000	Benfica	48	(1)
2000–2004	Bordeaux	115	(0)
2004–2005	Feyenoord	18	(1)
2006	Saint-Étienne	8	(0)
2006–2007	Nacional	12	(0)
2008–2009	Shinnik	14	(0)
Total		252	(3)
International career
1997–1998	Portugal U20	9	(0)
1998–2000	Portugal U21	15	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bruno Miguel Leite Basto (born 21 May 1978) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a left back.

After starting professionally with Benfica he went on to play in France, the Netherlands and Russia.

Football career

Born in Lisbon, Basto was a graduate of hometown S.L. Benfica's youth system, and began playing professionally with its farm team, F.C. Alverca, being recalled for good in January 1998.

After some good performances, he began an abroad spell that would last six years: four at FC Girondins de Bordeaux, one 1/2 seasons at Feyenoord and six months at AS Saint-Étienne, with relative success – he only managed to be first-choice for the first. In the 2001–02 season Basto helped Girondins finish sixth in Ligue 1, with the side also qualifying for the UEFA Cup after winning the domestic league cup, defeating FC Lorient in the final with two goals from countryman Pauleta (3–0).

In 2006–07 Basto returned to Portugal, signing with C.D. Nacional. He was played very rarely in Madeira however, and left for Russia's FC Shinnik Yaroslavl in the 2008 January transfer window; there, he teamed up with compatriot Ricardo Silva, and was released in 2009.

In the 2010 summer, after not being able to find a club in more than one year, Basto retired from football at the age of 32.

External links

• Bruno Basto at footballzz.co.uk
• Bruno Basto profile at ForaDeJogo
• Bruno Basto – French League Stats at LFP.fr (French)
• Stats at Footballdatabase
• Guardian Stats Centre