Bruno Alves: Portuguese football career

Bruno Alves - Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a central defender in the Italian club "Parma" and the Portuguese national team. Earlier footballer played for clubs such as "Port", "Zenit St. Petersburg", "Fenerbahce", "Cagliari" and "Rangers". As part of its national team is the winner of the 2016 European Championship. In 2009 he was voted player of the year in Portugal. Ranking among the top ten players of the national team of Portugal in the number of the match.

Biography footballer

Bruno Alves was born on November 27, 1981 in the town of Povoa de Varzim, Portugal.

He began playing football in the team of his native city "Varzim" and then came to the academy, "Porto", where he performed until 2002. However, in the first team is not a trial and for the next three seasons he played on loan at such clubs as the Greek AEK and Portuguese "S.c. Farense" and "Vitoria".

In the "Port" through

In 2005, Bruno Alves returned to the "Port" and a year later, in 2006, began on a regular basis get into the starting lineup of the team. He played for the first team of the club for five seasons of his playing career. Most of the time spent in the "Port", was a major player in the defensive line. From 2006 to 2009 four times in a row won the national championship with the Portugal team, also became the owner of three Portuguese Cups and two Super Bowl of the country.

Speeches of St. Petersburg "Zenith"

Bruno Alves moved to the "Zenith" in August 2010 for 23 million euros. September 30 this year, held its first European Cup football match for the "blue-white-blue" in the framework of the Europa League 2010/11. against his former club AEK Athens. At the 14 th minute of the match Alves scored the first goal, thus opening the account for the St. Petersburg club. In total, the "Zenith" has spent 71 match in the Premier League and became the champion of Russia in 2010.

Turkey Champion in the "Fenerbahce"

In June, the 2013th was announced that the Portuguese signed a new contract with the Turkish "Fenerbahce". As a part of this club, he won the national championship and the Super Bowl.

A career in "Cagliari" and "Rangers"

In June 2016 Bruno Alves started to play in Serie A for "Cagliari". Here, the player signed a contract for two years. He held for "sardiniytsev" In total 36 matches and was marked by one goal. At the end of May 2017 the defender left the club and moved to the club, "Rangers' Scottish Cup, where he spent 20 official games and scored one goal.

for the Portuguese national team career

During 2001-2004, Alves was involved in the youth national team of Portugal. At youth level, he played in 29 official matches and scored 3 goals.

In the summer of 2004, I was a member of the Olympic team at the Summer Olympics in 2004 in Greece, where the team Bruno failed to qualify from the group, as he played in all three matches. In June 2007, he made his debut in official matches in the national team of Portugal in a friendly against Kuwait (1: 1), and the next year went with the team to the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland, where he played in a match against the Swiss (0 2).

After that Alves was a major player in the national team selection for the 2010 World Cup. In the match against Albania (2: 1), he scored the winning goal, which allowed Portugal to reach the playoffs. There, in the first game against the team of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he scored the only goal of the match. The second match also ended with a minimal victory of the Portuguese, which allowed their team to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, where Alves has played in all four matches.

After two years, and was a major player in the European Championship 2012 in Ukraine and Poland. There's a semifinal game Bruno Alves scored the decisive penalty shoot-out, which is why Portugal was forced to leave the tournament. At the next major tournament, the 2014 World Cup, Portugal has acted very badly, failing to qualify from the group, and Alves has played in two games.

The most successful for Alves became the next European Championship in 2016 in France. At this tournament, Bruno with the team for the first time in history, became the champion of Europe, however, the football player has played only in the tournament in the semi-final against Wales due to lack of Pepe, who was injured.

But the main Bruno Alves was in the Confederations Cup in 2017, playing in three matches and became the bronze medalist of the tournament. The following year he was included in the application team to the World Cup 2018 in Russia. Total spent in the form of the main team of the country of 95 matches, scoring 11 goals.

Life

Bruno Alves is the son of the Brazilian football player, who played in Portugal. Bruno's mother worked all her life as a seamstress. We Alves has two siblings - and Geraldo Julio, who are also footballers. Uncle football, Cleophas Geraldo Dias Alves was also a footballer who plays in the Brazilian national team. He died on the operating table in 1976 from a painful shock when he had surgery after the injury.

Bruno Alves married. Spouse name Huth. The marriage produced two children - a son and daughter Adriana Leonard.