Born in Coimbra, Miguel Veloso is a Portuguese football player, born in 1986.
At this moment, Veloso plays for Genoa C.F.C. and is regularly called for the Portuguese National Team, where most of the times he plays at his natural position (Defensive Midfielder) but he can also operate as a left back or central defender.
After being rejected from S.L Benfica youth squad for being slightly overweight, Veloso made his senior team debut at Sporting Clube de Portugal In 2006-2007 completing a total of 27 appearances without scoring any goal, but as Sporting finished second in the League, he was really impressive in his UEFA Champions League debut, a 1–0 home win against F.C. Internazionale Milano, where he stopped Patrick Vieira and Luís Figo from playing effectively and by the end of the 90 minutes, all the talk was about Veloso, who turned in a Man of the match display.
In 2007–08, Veloso was ever-present in Sporting's central midfield. The club again lost the league to F.C. Porto, and the same befell in the following season, with the player being involved in some run-ins with manager Paulo Bento.
In the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League, Veloso helped Sporting reach the last-16, after scoring in both legs of the 4–2 aggregate win against Everton, the club could only, however, finish fourth in the Portuguese league.
On 30 July 2010, Veloso was sold to Genoa C.F.C. in Italy.
Veloso was priced €9 million plus bonuses and Zapater priced €2 million.
