Tomás Tavares, now 24 years old, has not had an easy life in recent seasons, especially since he stopped contracting with Benfica at the start of the 2022/23 season. After spells at Alavés, Farense, Basel, Lask Linz, Spartak Moscow and Aves SAD, the Portuguese-Cape Verdean found happiness in Poland, playing for Wisla Plock, a club he joined at the start of the season after ending his contract with Aves SAD, for which he only participated in 12 games in the second half of 2024/25.
But the success he is having at the moment is largely due to an idea defended by the club’s coach, the Polish Mariusz Misiura, the man who gave instructions to the club’s directors to hire him. Misiura already knew Tomás Tavares from the time he faced Benfica in the Youth League and always considered that the best position for the Lisbon-born footballer was as a striker.
And when he received it, if he thought better of it, he did so and placed it as a lock, a position in which the footballer feels good and which has led him to be considered one of the figures in the current first place in the Polish League, with 30 points, on par with Gornik Zarbre. So far, Tavares has eight games and no goals, in a record that suffered a small setback because he was sidelined for around a month due to a minor injury.
If he wins the Championship, it will be the first title for Tomás Tavares, promoted to Benfica’s first team in 2019/2020 by Bruno Lage. The footballer has 47 caps for Portugal’s youth teams, but none for the National Team.
