Carlos Alberto Fernandes

Carlos Alberto Fernandes was born on the 8^th December 1979. He is an Angolan professional football player who is currently playing the role of a goalkeeper.

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Football Career

Carlos Alberto Fernandes was born in Kinshasa, Zaire. He began his football career as a striker, before moving to the goalkeeping function after he replaced an injured teammate. He began his professional football with the lowly UD Vilafranquense and he played shortly with S.C Campomaiorense in the second division after that.

Carlos Alberto Fernandes went back to the lower leagues with the club Amora FC, though after some good performance with FC Felguiras in the second level, he made a move to the top flight game of Boavista FC for the 2005/05 season.

While he was with Boavista, Fernandes was at first the second choice player behind WillianAndem, but suddenly he was given the honor of the starting role, and this prompted a move to Romania’s FC SteauaBucaresti in January of the year 2006. Shortly after he has arrived to the club, he lost the confidence of the fans of the club and that of the general manager of the club, MihaiStoica. The manager declared at a TV show that the player, though he has not been at his best, had been subjected under heavy pressure because of the fact of being the only foreign player in the team.

Fernandes was sold back to his former club, Boavista on the 30^th May 2007. In the 2007/08 season, after he had lost the first choice position to Liechtensteiner Peter Jehle, Fernandes was loaned to Foolad FC in the January of the year 2008. The move to the club was made permanent in the next season. After spending a year in Iran, Fernandes made a move back to Portugal in the summer of the year 2009 and he joined Rio Ave FC. In the year 2010, he left the club and joined Bucaspor, where he made 14 appearances in the 2010/11 season. With the intention of gaining more playing times, he joined Feirense in the year 2013, but was unable to make the proper starting line of the club. He played just 11 matches for the club in that year and left the club in that same year. In the year 2013, Fernandes joined Moreirense and stopped playing in the year 2014. He played the total of 16 matches for the club.

Through his grandmother, Fernandes decided to play for the Angolan national team at the international level. He played his first match for the country in the year 2009 almost at the age of 30. He played for the country in the African Cup of Nations of the year 2010, which was played in the country, Angola.

He was also among the national team players that took part in the 2012 African Cup of Nations. He played the first two games of the tournament for the country but missed the third match because of yellow card, as the country left the tournament in the group stage.