Vermelhinho

Vermelhinho
Personal information
Full name Carlos Manuel Oliveiros da Silva
Date of birth (1959-03-09) 9 March 1959
Place of birth São João da Madeira, Portugal
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Winger
Youth career
Sanjoanense
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1977–1980 Sanjoanense
1980–1982 Águeda 53 (25)
1982–1989 Porto 84 (14)
1987–1988 → Chaves (loan) 37 (9)
1989–1990 Braga 21 (1)
1990–1991 Espinho 23 (3)
1991–1995 Sanjoanense 43 (12)
National team
1984 Portugal 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Carlos Manuel Oliveiros da Silva (born 9 March 1959 in São João da Madeira), known as Vermelhinho, is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a left winger.

Football career

After beginning professionally with two lowly clubs, including local A.D. Sanjoanense, Vermelhinho signed for FC Porto at the age of 23, in 1982. In the 1983–84 European Cup Winners' Cup he scored arguably his most important career goal, as his team won 1–0 at Aberdeen (2–0 aggregate): in a foggy night, he netted through an amazing long-range lob, and went on to also play the entire final, lost 1–2 to Juventus FC.[1]

Vermelhinho closed out his career at first club Sanjoanense at the age of 36, also having represented in one-season spells G.D. Chaves,[2] S.C. Braga and S.C. Espinho. For Portugal he earned two caps, being picked for the squad at UEFA Euro 1984, where he did not leave the bench.

References

  1. ↑ "Vermelhinho" (in Portuguese). Estrelas do FCP. 26 April 2009. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "1988/89: FC Porto sem troféus e dez campeões europeus a chorar" [1988/89: FC Porto without trophies and ten European champions crying] (in Portuguese). Mais Futebol. 28 April 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
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