Marco Paiva

Marco Paiva
Personal information
Full name	Marco Paulo Paiva Rocha
Date of birth	7 February 1973 (age 51)
Place of birth	Funchal, Portugal
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Youth career
1985–1990	Marítimo
Senior career*
Years	Team
1990–1994	Marítimo
1994–1995	Famalicão
1995–1997	Farense
1997–2001	Vitória Guimarães
2001–2004	Santa Clara
2004	Maia
2005–2007	União Madeira
2007–2010	Machico
Total
International career
1991–1993	Portugal U21
1998	Portugal
Managerial career
2010–2012	Machico
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marco Paulo Paiva Rocha (born 7 February 1973), known as Paiva, is a Portuguese retired football defensive midfielder and manager.

Club career

Born in Funchal, Madeira, Paiva came through the ranks of his hometown team C.S. Marítimo. He totalled 337 Primeira Liga games and six goals for them, S.C. Farense, Vitória de Guimarães and C.D. Santa Clara.

In the second tier, Paiva added 72 appearances and one goal in service of F.C. Famalicão, Santa Clara and F.C. Maia.

Paiva earned one senior cap for Portugal on 19 August 1998, in a 2–1 friendly win over Mozambique at the Estádio de São Miguel in the Azores. He came on as a substitute for double goalscorer Rui Costa with five minutes of the 2–1 win remaining.^[1]

Marco Paiva at ForaDeJogo (archived)
Marco Paiva manager stats at ForaDeJogo (archived)
Marco Paiva national team profile at the Portuguese Football Federation (in Portuguese)
Marco Paiva at National-Football-Teams.com
Marco Paiva at EU-Football.info