Carlos Eduardo Deus Pereira
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Carlos Eduardo Deus Pereira | ||
| Date of birth | 25 December 1962 | ||
| Place of birth | Lisbon, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Right-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1976–1978 | Sporting | ||
| 1978–1981 | Benfica | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1981–1988 | Benfica | 26 | (0) |
| 1986–1987 | → Farense (loan) | 24 | (1) |
| 1988–1990 | Farense | 20 | (0) |
| 1990–1991 | Olhanense | 3 | (0) |
| Total | 73 | (1) | |
| National team | |||
| 1978 | Portugal U16 | 5 | (0) |
| 1980 | Portugal U18 | 9 | (0) |
| 1983 | Portugal U21 | 4 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Carlos Eduardo Deus Pereira (born 25 December 1962) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played mainly as a right-back.
Over the course of five seasons, he amassed 70 Primeira Liga matches and one goal.
Club career
Born in Lisbon, a youth graduate from Benfica, he made his debut on 8 November 1981. With the right-back position being occupied by Pietra and Veloso, Pereira had very little opportunities to play.[1]
In 1988, he moved to Farense in transit to Sporting, and helped the team reach the 1990 Taça de Portugal Final, lost to Estrela da Amadora. However, having sustained a serious injury in the upper extremity of femur, while still at Benfica, Pereira ended his career abruptly at age 30.
In a interview to A Bola on 2 March 2014, Pereira described his debilitating injury. "I suffered a tackle in my femur, in a Belenenses-Benfica. It developed into a necrosis in the upper part and it got progressively worst, until I needed surgery, to have a prosthetic implanted. I was imobilized for a long time. In my final year at Farense, I couldn't bow down, kids from the youth ranks had to tie my shoes. I was in horrible pain and finished my career early, at age 30." [2]
After football, he ended up being associated with Farense, as Chairman of the SAD, and also with the Algarve Football Association and Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional.[2]
International career
Pereira amassed 18 caps from under-16 to under-21 level.[3]
Honours
- Benfica[1]
- Portuguese League: 1982–83
- Portuguese Cup: 1982–83
References
- 1 2 "Nº178 - Carlos Pereira". Vedeta ou Marreta (in Portuguese).
- 1 2 "Carlos Pereira". olhanense.davidlopes.com (in Portuguese).
- ↑ "Carlos Eduardo Pereira" (in Portuguese). Federação Portuguesa de Futebol.
External links
- Carlos Eduardo Deus Pereira profile at ForaDeJogo
- Carlos Eduardo Deus Pereira at footballzz.co.uk
- Stats at Footballdatabase