Bernardo Silva: Portuguese football career

Bernardo Silva - Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder (winger) in the English club "Manchester City" and the national team of Portugal. football Height is 173 centimeters, weight - about 64 kg. Known for their high technical performance and speed of action on the field. In the early period of his career he played for teams such as "Benfica" and "Monaco". As part of "sky blue" appears under 20-set tiebreak.

Biography footballer

Bernardo Silva was born on the tenth August 1994 in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2002 he was accepted into the school football club "Benfica", where until 2013 he played in the youth system. Bernard soon began to attract a part of the reserve team, where he was noticed by the coaching staff of the core team, which subsequently was invited.

October 19, 2013 Bernardo Silva made his debut for the "Benfica" at the age of nineteen in the third round of the Portuguese Cup against "Nacional", coming on as substitute in the 80th minute. The best young footballer of Portugal season 2013/14 Bernard was awarded "Breakthrough of the Year". In the same season the midfielder spent six months on loan French "Monaco". In which he held 13 official matches and marked by one goal.

Career "Manchester City"

May 26, 2017, "Manchester City" officially confirmed the transfer of the Portuguese. B. Silva signed a five-year contract with the club, for which the "sky blue" gave 50 million euros.

February 13, 2018 to Bernard scored his first goal for the "City" in the Champions League against the "Basel", the total score of the match time was 4: 0.

March 5, 2018 Bernard midfielder Silva was the author only and winning goal in the match against the principle of London "Chelsea". After the victory of the gap, "Manchester City" from the second place in the Premier League was 9 points. Having proved their professional skills (and the statistics Bernardo Silva in the category of goal + pass was one of the most successful among the young players the English championship), the Portuguese began to appear regularly in the first team and create scoring scenes in games. In total, in the season 2017 / 18Cilva spent 53 matches in all competitions and won the FA Cup and the Premier League. On the eve of the season 2018/19 Bernard became also owner of the Supercup of England, then the "Manchester City" managed to beat the "Chelsea".

Careers for the Portuguese national team

He played for the youth national team of Portugal in the Junior European Football Championship (U-19), 2013 in Lithuania, which scored in the semi-finals at the gate peers from Serbia, but the Portuguese team then lost in a penalty shootout and left the tournament. Thereafter Bernardo Silva was included in the list of the ten best talents in Europe at the age of 19 years, according to journalists.

During 2013-2015 he was involved in the youth national team of Portugal and with it won the silver medal in the European Youth Championship in the Czech Republic. In the tournament, he took part in the match against England, Italy, Germany, and twice - Sweden. In the confrontation with the Germans Bernardo Silva was the author posh goals. All at the youth level, played in 13 official matches and scored 6 goals.

March 31, 2015 First debuted in official matches in the national team of Portugal in a friendly match against Cape Verde (0: 2).