Position: Defender
Hometown: Portimão, Portugal
Birthday: 6/17/01
Pronunciation: tee-ah-go | dee-ah-sh
2026 Happenings
Captained Fort Wayne Football Club in its first professional match, a 2-0 loss at FC Naples on March 7. … Scored first professional goal against Corpus Christi FC at Ruoff Mortgage Stadium on May 20, 2026. Goal came on a header after a Javier Armas corner kick. Match ended 1-1. … Named bench player on USL League One Team of the Week on May 26, 2026. … Scored goal to begin comeback from two goals down in crucial 2-all draw with FC Naples at Ruoff Mortgage Stadium on Sept. 19, 2026. … Named bench player on USL Team of the Week on Sept. 22, 2026. … Scored in second straight match, Sept. 26, 2026, in 1-all draw at Charlotte Independence SC. … Scored for the third time in four matches during a 3-1 victory at Corpus Christi FC on Oct. 7, 2026, on same night Dias tied teammate Reid Sproat for the club’s all-time games played mark at 68 matches. … Became Fort Wayne FC’s all-time leader in matches played with 69 over four seasons during a 1-0 victory at Union Omaha on Oct. 10, 2026.
Entering 2026
Dias spent three seasons starring for Fort Wayne FC at the pre-professional level. He helped Fort Wayne FC to division titles in the summers of 2023, 2024 and 2025, and to conference semifinals in 2024 and 2025. … Dias captained the club in 2024 and 2025. In Fort Wayne FC’s USL League Two history, which spanned five seasons, Dias ranked second in total matches played with 38 and fourth in goals with six. … Dias played in the fall of 2025 for Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, during which he earned Second Team All-America East and Second Team All-Northeast Region honors. He played a pivotal role in a defense that had 11 clean sheets, and he assisted on five goals in 21 matches. Bryant finished the NCAA Division I season ranked 10th in the nation, falling to Saint Louis in penalty kicks in the third round of the national championships. … Dias played locally for Indiana Tech in 2024, scoring five goals and earning nods as a NAIA Third Team All-American, Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference Defender of the Year, First Team All-WHAC, and WHAC Newcomer of the Year. Dias captained the Warriors. … From 2022 to 2023, Dias played at the University of Albany in Albany, New York. In 2021, he played for Coffeyville Community College in Coffeyville, Kansas.