Fernando Silva (footballer, born 1980)
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Fernando Dinarte Santos Silva | ||
Date of birth | 3 October 1980 | ||
Place of birth | Funchal, Portugal | ||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre back | ||
Youth career | |||
1991–1999 | Marítimo | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1999–2010 | Marítimo B | 163 | (9) |
2001–2011 | Marítimo | 61 | (2) |
2011–2012 | Libolo | ||
Total | 224 | (11) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Fernando Dinarte Santos Silva (born 3 October 1980), known simply as Fernando, is a Portuguese retired footballer. Mainly a central defender, he could also play as a defensive midfielder.
Football career
[edit]Fernando was born in Funchal, Madeira. After also playing youth football there he was promoted to local powerhouse C.S. Marítimo's first team for the 1999–2000 season, but served only as a backup for the vast majority of his 12-year spell.
On 30 September 2007, in a 1–1 away draw against C.F. Estrela da Amadora, Fernando scored the club's historical 1,000 goal in the Primeira Liga.[1] However, he appeared in just five games during that campaign.
Fernando played a combined 23 league matches for Marítimo in the following three years – no appearances whatsoever in 2010–11 – continuing to feature for the reserves sporadically. At the age of 30 he moved abroad for the first time, signing with C.R.D. Libolo in Angola.
References
[edit]- ^ "Empate pobre na Reboleira com Scolari na assistência" [Poor draw at the Reboleira with Scolari in the stands]. Público (in Portuguese). 1 October 2007. Retrieved 20 September 2017.