F.C. Pedras Rubras is a Portuguese

Portugal

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 football

Football (soccer)

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 club from the town of Pedras Rubras

Pedras Rubras

Pedras Rubras is a Portuguese town located in the Moreira parish, in the Maia Municipality, Great Porto. The Porto Airport terminal and part of runway is located in Pedras Rubras....

, a parish

Parish

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 of Maia

Maia, Portugal

Maia Municipality is located in the Porto Metropolitan Area, Grande Porto subregion, in Norte Region, Portugal. The city of Maia includes the parishes of Gueifães, Maia and Vermoim, and has 39,949 inhabitants. The Maia Municipality comprises 135,049 inhabitants in 17 parishes for a total land...

, in the region of Greater Porto.

Brief history

Founded in 1942, the club is seen as a good formation center, and eventually signed protocols with Leixões S.C. and topflight

Portuguese Liga

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 giants F.C. Porto. Normally a mid-table club in the country's third division

Portuguese Second Division

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, it dropped down a level

Portuguese Third Division

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 in 2005-06.

After a very good year in the following campaign, albeit without promotion, Pedras Rubras were again relegated in 2007-08, to the Portuguese District Football Associations

Portuguese District Football Associations

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.

Famous players

• Grégory Arnolin
  Gregory Arnolin
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• Jorge Madureira
  Jorge Madureira
  Jorge Manuel Catarino Madureira is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a central midfielder.-Club career:...
  
  
• Hernáni
  Hernani
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• João Peixe
• Marin
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• Jorge Vilaça
• Weslem
• Zé Carlos
  Zé Carlos
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External links

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