*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:14, 22 May 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:31, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
Ricardo Martins Guimarães (born 14 November 1995), commonly known as Guima, is a professional
footballer who plays as a
midfielder for
G.D. Chaves.
Born in
Aveiro to a Portuguese father and a Mozambican mother,[2] Guima spent his first five seasons as a senior in the
LigaPro, starting out at
U.D. Oliveirense. He played his first match in the competition on 27 August 2014, coming on as a late
substitute in a 0–1 home loss against
S.L. Benfica B.[3]
Guima signed with
Sporting CP on 2 July 2016, being assigned to
the reserve team.[4] One year later, he joined
Académica de Coimbra of the same league on loan.[5] He scored his first goal in the second division on 11 February 2018 in a 4–0 away victory over
Gil Vicente FC,[6] being
sent off against his former club Oliveirense the following month.[7]
On 27 May 2019, Guima agreed to a three-year contract at
ŁKS Łódź.[8] His first game in the Polish
Ekstraklasa took place on 3 August, when he played the second half of the 1–2 home defeat to
Lech Poznań.[9]
Guima returned to Académica and the Portuguese second tier on 7 September 2020, in a
season-long loan.[10] In August 2021, he signed a permanent deal with
G.D. Chaves in the same league,[11] scoring once in 20 games in his
debut campaign in a promotion to the
Primeira Liga via the play-offs.[12][13]
Guima made his debut in the Portuguese top flight on 7 August 2022, playing 21 minutes of the 0–1 home loss against
Vitória de Guimarães.[14]
^Vaz, Rafael (7 August 2022).
"Desp. Chaves-V. Guimarães, 0–1 (crónica)" [Desp. Chaves-V. Guimarães, 0–1 (match report)] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. Retrieved 10 September 2023.