Ricardo Felipe dos Santos Esteves (born 16 September 1979) is a retired Portuguese footballer.

Benfica at the age of 11 he moved constantly between the club's first and reserve teams, only appearing in ten games in the Primeira Liga, all in the same season.

Late in that month he returned to his country and former side Marítimo, which had qualified for the UEFA Europa League.

[2] All youth levels comprised, Esteves won 53 caps for Portugal (no goals).

He participated with the under-20s in the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship held in Nigeria; in the round of 16 against Japan, as the team had no substitutes left and Sérgio Leite got injured, he played as a goalkeeper for more than one hour, conceding no goals in regulation time in an eventual 4–5 penalty shootout loss (1–1 after 120 minutes).