Nuno Mendes

Nuno Mendes is genuinely one of those players who makes you do a double-take — the guy was barely 19 when he moved from Sporting CP to Paris Saint-Germain and just looked completely at home. As a left-back, he's got this rare blend of blistering pace and defensive intelligence that you don't often see at that age, and watching him bomb forward on the overlap for PSG or Portugal feels effortless in a way that only the very best make it look. Still only in his mid-twenties, he's already widely considered among the top left-backs on the planet, which is a wild sentence to type. Born in Sintra, representing Portugal on the big stage — he's the kind of talent that comes along once in a generation at that position.

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Name (English)

Nuno Mendes

Name (Japanese)

ヌーノ・メンデス

Reading

ぬーの・めんです

Born

June 19, 2002 (age 24)

Origin

Sintra, Portugal

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Horse

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/nunomendes_5/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuno%20Mendes%20(footballer%2C%20born%202002)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8C%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96396963

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.