Fernando Silva (footballer, born 1980)

Fernando
Personal information
Full name	Fernando Dinarte Santos Silva
Date of birth	3 October 1980 (age 43)
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
1999–2010	Marítimo B
2001–2011	Marítimo
2011–2012	Libolo
Total
	*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.

External links[edit]

Fernando at ForaDeJogo (archived)
Fernando at Soccerway

[1] "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.

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